Able Quotes
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
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We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.
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It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.
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My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.
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When I get to the end of my life, I want to be able to look back and know that my being here made things better - Daphne
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I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’
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I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.
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Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.
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I just do as many songs as I can and then I put it together when I get sort of in the middle, maybe 30 songs, that's when I start really thinking about the name of the cd and what direction all the songs are going, that kind of stuff. But I don't ever want to corner myself, I just want to be able to express whatever I can express in songs and just pick after that.
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I don't care much about my personal record. I just want to be able to pitch in the playoffs.
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Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.
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If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.
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She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it
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If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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After each game, I want to be able to say: I gave it all I could, I gave it my best.
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I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.
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To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.
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That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.
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I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.
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In snowboarding, you're constantly aware that people are so technically brilliant at what they do, and you feel like, "Ugh, I'll never be able to do that."
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I had read the scripts that Nora Ephron had written as a movie about Mike McAlary. We were never able to make it at HBO because we couldn't cast it properly and when I left I called Nora and said, "Look, I actually think that the movie luckyguyindustry has changed. It's very unlikely that you'd be able to make this as a movie. I actually think it's a play."
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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Putting a label homosexual on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it.
