Able Quotes - Page 73

Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the conversation, and get beyond the stereotypes and prejudices that create injustice all over the world.

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

Donald [Trump], you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. That's not going to happen.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Reality is cruel. All of the naivete is going to be removed. Reality is always changing, and it is always unpredictable. All of the balance is going to be destroyed.

I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.

Nothing else but seeing God in everything can make us loving and patient with those who annoy us. When we realize that they are only the instruments for accomplishing His purpose in our lives, we will actually be able to thank them [inwardly] for the blessings they bring us.

Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

Alone also means available for someone outstanding.

Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put into your hands this piece of the earth itself as a sign that we restore them to you and your children forever.

I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.