Can Do Quotes - Page 26

• See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Ignorance, Color, Daring

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

  Asger Jorn

  Knowledge, Needs, Generations

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.

  Ian Poulter

  Jobs, Moon, Crossing The Line

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• A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.

  Randy Pausch

  Family, Dream, Jobs

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.204, Hachette UK

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• When you struggle, that's when you realize what you're made of, and that's when you realize what the people around you can do. You learn who you'd want to take with you to a war, and who you'd only want to take to lunch.

  Chamique Holdsclaw

  War, Struggle, Lunch

  Chamique Holdsclaw (2001). “Chamique: On Family, Focus, and Basketball”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.

  Robert Bateman

  Art, Clear Direction, Long

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• Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Don't be afraid, you can do it.

  Steve Jobs

  Fear, You Can Do It

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• When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Encouragement, Thinking, Happens

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• The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.

  Marcus Garvey

  Power, Men, Done

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.9, Ravenio Books

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• We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.

  Rachel Carson

  Risk, Wish, Needs

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'

  Patsy Cline

  Couple, Fighting, Mind

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• You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Bayonets

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• There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that's today. There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow. The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability.

  Harold B. Lee

  Hands, Yesterday, Giving

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• The worst thing I can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Action, Worst, I Can

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• It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself. After all, it was not an invention of man, but of God.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Writing, Successful, Light

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• Most enlightened people can do miracles. Some have powers, some don't. Some people who have developed powers aren't enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Miracle, Enlightenment

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• If what you seek is freedom, the only person who can teach you anything, the only person who can help you is someone who's already done it, who knows the way. No one else can do a damn thing for you but slow you down.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Done, Way

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• If we have Christ with us, we can do all things. Let us not be thinking how weak we are. Let us lift up our eyes to Him and think of Him as our Elder Brother who has all power given to Him in Heaven and on earth. He says, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.'

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Brother, Eye

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• I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.

  Johnny Depp

  Pain, Eye, Alcohol

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• It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wake Up, Enlightened, You Can Do It

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• Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Looks, Problem

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• I just try to keep getting better every day, and that's all I can do.

  Robbie Lawler

  Mma, Get Better, Trying

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• Whatever my situation, I'm a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.

  Mike Tyson

  Strong, Hate, Mma

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