- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Able Quotes
On capability, readiness and what makes action possible.
These quotes touch on being able to act: governments expected to give straight answers, leaders imagined thinking more imaginatively, and allies working to restore the unity needed to act together. For more, see our Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I find what I like, maybe in about five years we'll be able to afford to build a home in the country.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm blessed that I'm able to provide the vehicle for my daughter to follow her dreams.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to know who I'm working with, and it's important because they've got to be able to bring something to the party.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I miss being able to play my instruments - I'm too much of a physical wreck these days. Playing the vibraphone gives me backache, leg ache, and everything-else ache, and the asthma means I no longer have enough puff to play harmonica.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But I'm not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. I'm interested in the person who can make the right decisions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to learn to trust people, and I realized that success was going to be born in hiring really bright people - very self-motivated, very able to make good judgment calls day in and day out.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had not been coached well about how to deal with a culture and a set of values that were foreign to my own, I would not have been able to be successful.
- International
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being able to fight a guy like Brock Lesnar who is a wrestler, who has very limited skills in striking, in my prime and him in his prime, he doesn't have a chance. How can you beat me? You can't beat me.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020