Can Do Quotes - Page 29

• There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.

  William Bolcom

  Nice, Book, Play

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• We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.

  Warren Buffett

  Capacity, Accomplish, Humans

  "Women In Leadership As An Economic Imperative?". Article by Warren Buffett, www.forbes.com. 2013.

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• When someone is force to realize that the road he'd been working hard to make progress on was no different from the place he'd started, and when he realized that he had in fact gone backward, all that person can do is face the pale sky and lament.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Sky, Progress, Faces

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• 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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• We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Luxury, Surrender, Articles

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840). “The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville ...”, p.19

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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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• 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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• How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

  Jane Fonda

  Father, Years, Realizing

  "Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith". "The Daytona Beach News-Journal" Newspaper, June 30, 1963.

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• At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Lying, Thinking, Next Day

  "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001.

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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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• 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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• Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Writing, Cutting

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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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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• 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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• I don't feel pressure, because I do what I want to do. I don't feel pressure at all. I've never done any movies because I thought this was what somebody wanted me to do. I'm a bit more, for lack of a better word, selfish than that. But like I say in the movie, you do what you have to do so that you can do what you want to do.

  Denzel Washington

  Selfish, Done, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Role Models, Roles

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Breakthroughs happen when the insight comes that I can do something right now to improve things. I am constantly looking to do something to provide people with strategies to create those immediate breakthroughs. That's my mission.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Strategy, Missions

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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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• I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Jobs, Play, Important

  Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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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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• 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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• if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.

  Arman

  Lonely, New York, Couple

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