Able Quotes - Page 71

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

While change is rarely comfortable, I am happy to say that we not only survived but also grew more capable in the process - seeding much of the information revolution which now pervades the world in which we live.

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal

I think with being blind the one thing you would have going is that you could still feel things, see your way around so to speak. And if you had had the experience of seeing at one time in your life, then you would know what it was like and be able to function. I've said this before, I think I could really photograph blind if I had to.

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.

Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.

Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

It's really unimaginable that I could start where I was and get here today.

The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.

Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.