Can Do Something Quotes - Page 8

• I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.

  Gary Holland

  Morning, Commitment, Choices

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• Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

  Benjamin Carson

  Effort, Risk, Should

  "Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk". Book by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis, 2008.

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• Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.

  Joel Spolsky

  Mean, Microsoft, Normal

  Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.324, Apress

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• The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.

  Elton John

  Hate, Ignorance, Past

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• A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity. ... A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do

  James E. Faust

  Daughter, Heart, Mean

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• Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!

  Paul Gauguin

  Photography, Intelligent, Men

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• If you can do something to get somebody excited - not everybody - but if you can be the best for somebody, then you can win.

  Ronald M. Shaich

  Winning, Excited, Being The Best

  "Here Are The Epiphanies That Made Panera A $4.5 Billion Restaurant Chain". Interview with Jenna Goudreau, uk.businessinsider.com. November 11, 2014.

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• An actor cannot say no, it’s against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it’s very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.

  Olivier Martinez

  Jobs, Actors, Want

  "The General". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2015.

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• It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Conceited, Hysteria

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.642, Psychology Press

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• Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Thinking, Reason, Obedience

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

  Harry Shearer

  Crafts, Firsts, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show..." I'm still writing about heartbreak that happened years ago. I don't see the point of writing and putting out another record until I can do something else.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Writing, Years, Records

  "Without Her Happy Hookers" by Sharon Van Etten, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

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• I can't do anything about the thoughts that come into my head, but I can do something about the ones that stay there!.

  Penney Peirce

  Simple, I Can, Simple Life

  Penney Peirce (2009). “The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.

  Mitt Romney

  Disappointment, America, Promise

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Because Jesus Christ is a man, He feels what we feel. Because He is God, He can do something about it.

  Tony Evans

  Jesus, Men, Christ

  Tony Evans (2008). “Theology You Can Count On: Experiencing What the Bible Says About... God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, Angels, Salvation...”, p.396, Moody Publishers

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• I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sports, Mind

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• Bonobos don't really have that darker side. So that's where they could really help us is how could it be that a species that has a brain a third of the size of ours can do something that with all our technological prowess we can't accomplish? Which is to not kill each other.

  Claudine Andre

  Brain, Sides, Size

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

  Sienna Miller

  People, Creative, Want

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  I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

  Dolly Parton

  Motivational, Uplifting, People

  Twitter post from Nov 03, 2010

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• Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

  Rand Paul

  Election, Can Do

  "Rand Paul on 'Tea Party Tidal Wave'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.

  Ruben Studdard

  Goal, Inspire, Shapes

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• But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to." "Just because anyone can do something doesn't mean everyone should," Mrs. Peters said. "Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

  Chris Colfer

  Writing, Mean, Connections

  Chris Colfer (2013). “The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, "What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work?" you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.

  Ang Lee

  Impact, Over You, What If

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• To live a great life, you must believe in yourself. Let these quotes help you to create a mindset for believing in yourself... Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.

  Henry Ford

  Believe, Helping, Mindset

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• Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

  Jacques Attali

  Men, Tragedy, Ends

  Jacques Attali (2009). “A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-first Century”, Arcade Publishing

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