All Quotes

The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.
‐‐ Daniel H. Pink

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
‐‐ Todd Solondz

The ability to talk to kids and reach kids is a gift I've been given, and I may as well use it.
‐‐ Montel Williams

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
‐‐ Virginia Gildersleeve

The ability to touch people and literally change lives is incredibly relevant in a consumer-products company.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

The ability to work together has to be in the blood of particle physicists. They learn very early on that it is impossible to advance on one's own and that constant exchange is necessary.
‐‐ Rolf-Dieter Heuer

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.
‐‐ James Gleick

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
‐‐ Jean Baudrillard

The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.
‐‐ James McBride

The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
‐‐ Quentin Bryce

The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
‐‐ Leon Kass

The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
‐‐ Gary Bauer

The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.
‐‐ Robert Casey

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
‐‐ Robert Casey

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.
‐‐ Norma McCorvey

The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have stooped so low that they have tried to use my personal tragedy for their personal benefit.
‐‐ Shashi Tharoor

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.
‐‐ Hussein of Jordan

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
‐‐ Henry A. Kissinger

The absence of diverse voices leads to policies and programs that adversely impact African-Americans.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous.
‐‐ John Piper

The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.
‐‐ Mario Monti

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.
‐‐ Paul Wolfowitz

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
‐‐ John Millington Synge

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
‐‐ Charles Reade

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr. So-and-So,' and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts. You send it out to a list of people you found on the Internet.
‐‐ Evan Daugherty

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.
‐‐ Mary Kay Blakely

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
‐‐ David Bowie

The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
‐‐ Carl Reiner

The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.
‐‐ Brian Greene

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
‐‐ James J. Gibson

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.
‐‐ Rudolf Arnheim

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
‐‐ Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
‐‐ Albert Camus

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
‐‐ Robert Sheckley

The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
‐‐ Ellen Gustafson

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
‐‐ Charles Bradlaugh

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.
‐‐ Diane Watson

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
‐‐ Gavin Bryars

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.
‐‐ Suzanne Fields

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.
‐‐ Brenda Blethyn