Can Do Quotes - Page 30

• The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

  Julius Sumner Miller

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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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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• 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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• Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.

  Chris Murray

  Men, Years, Underestimate

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• You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

  Nick Vujicic

  Broken, Giving, Pieces

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• I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

  Robbie Robertson

  Dollars, Lucky, Records

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• Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

  Srikumar Rao

  Stress, Stuff, Accepting

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• In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Women, Years, Mind

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• When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Thinking, Interesting

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• I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Desire, Would Be, Matter

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, Part I, Book IV, Ch. 23, 1605.

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• The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  People, Dumb, Dumb People

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.93

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• You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

  Margot Asquith

  Genius, Talent, Can Do Something

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

  Richard Linklater

  Dream, Waking, Infinite

  "Fictional character: Guy Forsyth". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Work, Men, Great Work

  Elbert Hubbard (1912). “Little journeys to the homes of eminent artists”

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• It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, People, Important

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• America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history, whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people, or the struggle for equality for all our citizens; our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place. Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Commitment, Sacrifice

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, Racism, Prejudice

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Struggle, Two

  Address to the League of United Latin American Citizens, July 01, 2005.

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• However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

  Brian Aldiss

  Roles, Roles In Life

  "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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• Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

  Eric Hoffer

  Growing Up, Evil, Trying

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1973.

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• One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.

  Andre Maurois

  Children, Character, Littles

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Injustice, Worst

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.

  Frank Zappa

  Two, Abnormal, Steps

  Interview on Channel 4, June 1, 1983.

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• "Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Arrows, Doe, True And False

  "Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (§ 454), 1953.

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• Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

  Meher Baba

  Giving, Charity, Easy

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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