Able Quotes - Page 45

To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

Just be comfortable with who you are.

God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability.

What motivates me is to be able to do what I love to do . . . fight

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.

Anti-depressan ts Controlling tools of your system Making life more tolerable Making life more tolerable

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Don't count your chickens before they egg.

A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way, to hum it to yourself. You desire, if only in the sound studio of your imagination, to repeat the physical experience of that sentence. That craving, emotional and intellectual but beginning in the body with a certain gesture of sound, is near the heart of poetry.

It's an attitude that has to do with curiosity, with wanting to know about things, wanting to be able to influence things, and wanting to be able to influence them in a way that's worthwhile

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.

One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.