Able Quotes

10642 Able quotes by 6238 unique authors

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need… — Lev Grossman
To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were to set up a perfect… — L. Ron Hubbard
Now you say you have to absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don't lie to anybody ...… — L. Ron Hubbard
Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate. — Robert Anton Wilson
Situations emerge in the process of creative destruction in which many firms may have to perish that nevertheless would be able to live on vigorously… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself. — Maria Montessori
To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond their conscious aim,… — Maria Montessori
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in… — Maria Montessori
In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a… — Paulo Freire
Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against… — Lion Feuchtwanger
The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns. — Ben Bernanke
My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for… — Yanni
Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was… — Curt Weldon
Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida… — Curt Weldon
SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the pillow and SLEEP in PEACE. — Herschel Walker
Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how… — Drew Houston
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties… — Frederick Rolfe
You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. — Christian Morgenstern
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take… — Edwin Way Teale
I don't think people were put here to be happy. I think if you decide to be an artist or a writer, you automatically accept… — Jim Steranko
If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry… — Hans Blix
Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because… — Ivan Illich
It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy,… — Donald Berwick
Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do. — Marilyn vos Savant

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