Can Do Quotes - Page 19

• Aegistheus, the kings have another secret.... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men and to them alone to let him flee or to destroy him.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Kings, Men, Soul

  "The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 2, 1943.

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• You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.

  Zig Ziglar

  Reality, People, Progress

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.164, Pelican Publishing

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• Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed?

  Van Morrison

  Moving, Spirit, Sometimes

  Van Morrison (2016). “Toma interior”, p.284, Malpaso Ediciones SL

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• I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.

  Mary Oliver

  Art, Believe, Imagination

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• Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.

  Claude Debussy

  Writing, Light, Variation

  Claude Debussy, François Lesure, Roger Nichols (1987). “Debussy Letters: ,”, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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• I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

  Bernard Malamud

  Giving Up, Thinking, Giving

  Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.149, Macmillan

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• It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.

  Lee Iacocca

  Pain, Believe, White

  "Lee Iacocca On Chrysler's Bankruptcy" by Julie Halpert, www.newsweek.com. April 29, 2009.

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• Don't do anything that someone else can do.

  Edwin Land

  "The Vindication of Edwin Land". Forbes magazine, (Vol. 139, p. 83), May 4, 1987.

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• Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

  Will Smith

  Safety, Giving, Going Away

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

  Rick Warren

  Government, Hands, Law

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.

  Channing Tatum

  Directors, Doe, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Dream, Believe, Kids

  "Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews Interview TOOTH FAIRY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 19, 2010.

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• People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can't. They can survive harsh conditions, they can explore places we would never go, plus you never actually have to bring them back.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Feelings, Robots

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.

  Tony Robbins

  Children, Men, Today

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.

  Jessica Chastain

  Character, Play, Voice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have no particular desire to do anything else as an actor.

  Woody Allen

  Desire, Actors, Feels

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• As long as I can do something that I am passionate about and that I can really enjoy and the audience can enjoy. That is where my enthusiasm comes from.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Long, Passionate, Enthusiasm

  "Dwayne Johnson Talks Race to Witch Mountain". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 4, 2009.

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• A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.

  John French Sloan

  Character, Kids, Thinking

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• An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same way. He has developed a technique to convey those feelings so that he can get the ideas across. Or a musician may not want to play that damn music at all, but he has a booking and has to do it.

  Richard Estes

  Night, Years, Play

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• I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.

  Norval Morrisseau

  Laughter, Communication, Compassion

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• The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Art, Knowledge, Practice

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• Do anything you wanna do—but from [the heart]. Music is a thing from the heart, from the soul, just like anything else you do, man. And you can be the best, you can be what you wanna be. That’s right! You can do what you wanna do. I believe—I’m a blues player. I never been a millionaire, but let me tell you something—I think I am. Cause I got this. I’ve got what it take. And I don’t care if you don’t believe me, man, but I know you do. Because this is what it’s all about. Anything you do, if you wanna do it and you love it, you rich. You a millionaire, man.

  Hubert Sumlin

  Believe, Heart, Player

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• I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

  Raha Moharrak

  Writing, Creativity, Hands

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• Faith is lifeless unless you act on it. T.L. Osbourne says: “When the promises of God are believed and acted upon they become the power of God”. We can do all the things we have previously talked about about: desire, decision, prayer, speaking faith, seeing the answer, but if we don’t act our faith it is all to no avail.

  Phil Pringle

  Prayer, Decision, Promise

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• Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

  Carsten Jensen

  Two, People, Drowning

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