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A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
Sep 10, 2025
I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.
I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.
Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.
Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly. Play as often as you can Work as smart as you are able. Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the composition of atoms, the macrocosm whereby we succeed only in creating outlines and translating a measure into numbers without our minds being able to form any concrete idea of it-we remain astounded by the enormous machinery of the universe.
Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.
Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
To be a leader you must be able to create positive change.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.
To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.
With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant in this respect almost alone among the philosophers was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications.
The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?
There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.
To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge comes from information flow, the ability to correct your habits in terms of the market's characteristics, and being able to take risks, cut losses, expand your information network, ferret out ideas, and take recommendations.