You Can Do It Quotes - Page 5

• Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Garden, Compassion

  "Hyakujō: The Everest of Zen with Bashō's Haikus". Book by Osho, 1989.

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• If you can do it then why do it?

  Gertrude Stein

  Can Do, Ifs

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• As you go higher up in the ladder, you look down, and it's a pretty far fall, so you tend to watch your step a bit more. That's all you can do. It's a full time job not to kill these niggas out here; every day I ask for the strength not to go off the handle and whack one of these stupid cunts.

  Gunplay

  Jobs, Stupid, Fall

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

  Kamala Harris

  Meaningful, Thinking, Justice

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• I love doing 'Castle.' We pump out 24 episodes in 10 months, and we work long hours. We do lots and lots of takes, and everyone there is a talent machine. It is a taxing endeavour to say the least, but when you get into a groove, it doesn't matter if you're tired, it doesn't matter if you're sick. You can do it.

  Nathan Fillion

  Tired, Long, Sick

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• I always like using different muscles, you can take that however you want. But doing something once a year is fantastic, I highly recommended it if you can do it. It's a wonderful thing, it's very freeing and I can put a lot of energy and attention onto it and it's something I love doing.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Years, Energy, Different

  Interview with Alissa Norby, chicago.gopride.com. June 9, 2010.

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• You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work, while you're playing music. Just be aware of yourself, of who you really are,and realize the rest is a projection of your mind.

  Robert Adams

  Car, Meditation, Mind

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• Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will listen. Tons of people talk about books they want to write. Far fewer are those who actually complete that vision. Don’t be a talker.

  Po Bronson

  Book, Writing, People

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• Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe that. Before your dream can become a reality, you have to see it in your own mind; see its fulfillment, whatever it may be.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Dream, Believe, Reality

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• If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.

  Robert Ballard

  Logic, Plans, Can Do

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• I see much less of an ambition gap and much more of a workplace and society that isn't allowing us to use the talent that is multiplied well beyond this room ... There are millions of women out there who ... need more than, Honey, you can do it if you try hard enough.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Powerful, Ambition, Trying

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• You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports, Believe

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• Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Work, Loss

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• When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.

  Carrie-Anne Moss

  Cutting, Thinking, Doctors

  "Carrie-Anne Moss for “Suspect Zero”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. August 10, 2004.

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• Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction.

  John Updike

  Nice, Moving, Writing

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• As an individual, as a household, you can't spend more money than you're bringing in. You can do it for a little while, but you end up going broke and you end up losing everything you have. That is the path that we're on as a country, and it scares me to death.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Country, Losing Everything, Scare

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 21, 2012.

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• I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

  Robert Plant

  Voice, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

  Ice T

  Rap, Knowing, Hip Hop

  Source: collider.com

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• I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Track, Pilates

  "Cate Blanchett on Philanthropy and Beauty". Interview with Maureen Choi, www.marieclaire.com. April 1, 2011.

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• Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

  Peter Lynch

  Math, Fifth Grade, Made

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• When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you and look in their eyes and meet the person next to you, find out their name, change one person's life and make one call, write one letter, give one dollar. Whatever small thing feels like what you can do - it changes the course of the ship and that is all it is.

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Eye, Writing

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• The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the same kind of love and ambition for you that your earthly parents have. They want you to do well and you can do it.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Daughter, Ambition, Son

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• Dancing. Come on. You can do it. It's a lot like navigating through a laser grid. It requires rhythm.' He moved her hips to the beat of the distant music. 'And patience.' He spun her around slowly and back toward him. 'And it's only fun if you trust your partner.' The dip was so slow, so smooth that Kat didn't know it was happening until the world was already turned upside down and Hale's face was inches from her own. Count me in, Kat.' He squeezed her tighter. 'You should always count me in.

  Ally Carter

  Fun, Dancing, World

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• Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled and worshipped. You can do it again. If your house burned down with all your work inside it, you would still be the writer you are, and you would continue to be worth something.

  J. Robert Lennon

  House, Treasure, Proud

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• If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Love, Heart, Hands

  Theodore Sturgeon (1986). “Godbody”, Dutton Adult

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