Able Quotes - Page 67

Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.

There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.

Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.

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 all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.

The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.

The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person must make decisions himself and himself answer for them.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.

If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

A table-full of welcome!

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

French people are charming, adorable but not extremely generous with foreigners, but they believe in what they do. I feel proud in exchange because what I did in restoration is something I did for La France.