Able Quotes
10642 Able quotes by 6238 unique authors
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There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the…
— Paulo Coelho
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It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.
— Paulo Coelho
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Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey…
— Paulo Coelho
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Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time…
— Jay Leno
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I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I…
— Stanley Kubrick
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Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life.…
— Paulo Coelho
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GG Allin is an entertainer with a message to a sick society. He makes us look at it for what we really are. The human…
— John Wayne Gacy
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You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at…
— Ngaio Marsh
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You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a…
— Ngaio Marsh
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I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this…
— Ayrton Senna
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From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul…
— Frederick Douglass
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It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in…
— Nelson Mandela
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You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself…
— Charles Baudelaire
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If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what…
— Jeffery Deaver
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I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not…
— Isaac Newton
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This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that…
— Isaac Newton
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I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.
— Thomas Hearns
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Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn’t mean that they’ve changed…
— Daniel Kahneman
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Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment.…
— Tim Harford
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special…
— Hippocrates
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As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger. Then you will be better able to help others -those who are working, in…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the…
— Sarah Palin
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I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it hard to handle the fame…
— Greg LeMond
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I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it,…
— Tiger Woods
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Being able to do something that's never been done before, that's what I've always wanted to do. . . . There was nothing that was…
— Michael Phelps
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