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Quotes About Workable

Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.
~ David Hewson
Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability. It takes it out of the realm of conjuring where we stand on the rock of isolation, begging the winds for inspiration, and it makes it something as do-able as picking up a hammer and pounding a nail. Writing may be an art, but it is certainly a craft. It is a simple and workable thing that can be as steady and reliable as a chore—does that ruin the romance?
~ Julia Cameron
In the end, pragmatism requires a workable compromise. But none exists on Brexit.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
managed to come up with a plan in just under eight minutes, but after I had examined it from every angle I realized it wasn't workable in this situation. It required powerful machinery, thousands of experts, a time paradox, a nuclear submarine, a cat, a crowbar, and a birthday cake. And all I had was a mouthful of air and a bad idea. I reluctantly abandoned my plan.
~ John Swartzwelder
He said he was thinking about retiring from the boxing ring and devoting his life to traveling and "seeking a peaceful, workable solution to the race problem.
~ Jonathan Eig
I said I'm going to vote for Hillary. But my philosophy is that everything's workable. If Trump is president, I'll work with that guy. I don't know if he's terrible or what. He's refreshing in that he doesn't speak in that political way. I don't quite understand why everybody hates Hillary so much.
~ Jeff Bridges
One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his confirmation hearing, is, you know, it is in our benefit to develop a workable, positive formula with China.
~ Jim Webb
If you're reading these words, perhaps it's because something has kicked open the door for you, and you're ready to embrace change. It isn't enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Small change, small wonders—these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. It's a workable economy.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Because poverty is a symptom—of the absence of a workable economy built on credible political, social, and legal institutions.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Poverty is a symptom—of the absence of a workable economy built on credible political, social, and legal institutions.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Pastoral work is a commitment to the everyday: it is an act of faith that the great truths of salvation are workable in the "ordinary universe.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Good relationships in childhood do not mean that our emotional life becomes consistently even and positive, but it does mean that we are more likely to discover that our negative emotions are workable and useful and that our positive emotions can be trusted and rejoiced in.
~ Sue Johnson
A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Anger is often a big problem for people who grew up in families where the overt expression of anger was an everyday occurrence. They have too much opportunity to practice anger and not enough sense of the other possibilities. Rage becomes, for them, the habitual response of the mind to unpleasant situations. ... When people begin to see that anger, like any other mind energy, is just a transient phenomenon and therefore workable, they are very relieved [p. 83].
~ Sylvia Boorstein
We need common sense and political stability and sensible, workable policies. That's what government is for.
~ Bruce Sterling
We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.
~ Ram Charan
The most intelligent man living cannot succeed in accumulating money-nor in any other undertaking-without plans which are practical and workable.
~ Napoleon Hill
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
~ Jack Kornfield
The more I research the bodymind, the more I get that the only workable path to workable health is to forgive the unforgivable in spite of its unforgivability. Otherwise we just destroy our own cells with the byproducts of all that hate. We
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Here's the problem with unforgivable. The more I research the bodymind, the more I get that the only workable path to workable health is to forgive the unforgivable in spite of its unforgivability. Otherwise we just destroy our own cells with the byproducts of all that hate.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
No-deal Brexit can and must be stopped. To do that, MPs across Parliament who oppose it need to stand up and be counted. The options available are limited, and we must come together around a workable plan.
~ Jo Swinson
Jakes nodded his dismissal. "Workable. Set up a meeting." Mitchel stood. "Who would you like to send, sir?" He smiled. "Ivy, I've neglected my duties as commander of The Baldain. I'll transport down to Earth and handle this matter myself.
~ Cheryl Sterling
But what do these theologians really accomplish with their revised view of God—other than aligning themselves with a view of natural reality and life that they can take to be more scientific? Is it not simply the destruction of any workable sense in which God and Jesus are persons, now alive and accessible, standing in an interactive relationship with those who rely on them?
~ Dallas Willard