Able Quotes - Page 94

Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them.

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

In my terms, "neurocognitive efficiency" is being able to make smarter, faster decisions on the floor.

I like to pick my own vegetables.

Talent is a gift from God. That is something that you are born with. To be able to be born with singing talent is just a gift. You can learn how to sing better, but you cannot learn to sing with certain quality. It is just something you are born with.

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.

Most of the books call Her a He, but I am able to ascertain what is meant, despite that semantic error.

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Life is too short to be miserable.

If a man loses one-third of his skin he dies; if a tree loses one-third of its bark, it too dies. If the Earth is a 'sentient being', would it not be reasonable to expect that if it loses one-third of its trees and vegetable covering, it will also die?

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

We cannot build county councils based on one single constituency. It doesn't make sense because it does not have a sufficient revenue base to be able to provide the services that county councils are required to provide.

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.

The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.