Able Quotes - Page 65

Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is aware of being aware. Mindlessness, on the other hand, or "no-mindness" as it has been called, is a condition of such complete absorption that there is not vestige of self-awareness.

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

People also smile when they are miserable.

There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated.

The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

Technology is important because it creates the future. We're able to be a part of the "next" and create things that don't exist.

You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

Yeah, we call that mulling around. Okay guys, come on now. What we're going to do early in this game is mull around, okay? And later, we're going call that monkey-off-our-back play.

There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally, in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good.

Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.

You have to be able to play through the tough moments by doing something offensively, and we haven't been able to do that.