Able Quotes
On capability, readiness and what makes action possible.
These quotes touch on being able to act: governments expected to give straight answers, leaders imagined thinking more imaginatively, and allies working to restore the unity needed to act together. For more, see our Being quotes.
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.
Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects...
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By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic...
What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.
I've always dreamed of franchising an airline, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do it.
Personally, just being able to compete in an Olympics, being part of an Opening Ceremony wearing a green jacket with the rest of the Australian Olympic team, would be a more than a dream come true.
I am pleased that through SM Foundation, we are able to do many socio-civic projects and support college scholars in need who come from public schools.
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man.
It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.
The earliest period at which I have been able to detect the existence of the spleen in the human embryo is at the second month.
Being able to work on a film like 'Crazy Rich Asians' as your first role is phenomenal.
There's no real test of how Asian you need to be to be able to own your Asianness, and it's always going to be an area of contention.
Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.
We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.
People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs;...
Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
