Able Quotes

In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before you can enjoy working with them. I guess that goes with the trust.

If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.

Trying to be able to have, let's say, more than three partners was absolutely impossible, at least for my own relationships.

Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.

I'm glad to be able to announce that the UK now has it's very own mindless twit. || Either that or he's a damn good satirist.

Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be.

By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived.

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

As a young guy from south London, I wanted to be able to make myself stand out.

We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.

I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.

You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

I am great at delegating when someone is doing great work. The problem - and this sounds terrible - is that there are very few people who are strong enough for you to be able to delegate to.

Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.

I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.

Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it.

Mexican people are very warm and friendly. I was able to adjust and adapt the new environment. They are very kind and helpful.

I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop.

Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport.

When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure.

It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.

In order for things to change you, you must be able to change.

To be able to work with someone who you learn so much from is a really valuable experience.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what I use. I use my talent.

It's a gift to be able to give access.

I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.

The greatest joy is my lifestyle, where me and my husband and our kids who go to internet school so they have the freedom to travel with me are able to do what we want, when we want, where we want.

Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.

The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.