Can Do Something Quotes - Page 5

• One thing is certain: That is that the power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. That is a fact.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Believe, Moving, Reality

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• I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.

  Russell Wilson

  Believe, Mean, Nfl

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• There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.

  C.P. Snow

  Mean, Understanding, Ignorant

  C.P. SNOW (1963). “THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK”

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• A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you've got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Ideally, it's insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you're very lucky.

  Jason Statham

  Art, Character, People

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• It's all mental management. Whether you can do something or not is in your head.

  Kris Carr

  Management, Can Do

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• Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Mean, People

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.70, Random House

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• If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

  Sara Blakely

  Inspiring, Thinking, Let It Go

  "What Sara Blakely Wished She Knew in Her 20s". Interview with Susie Moore, www.marieclaire.com. November 4, 2014.

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• Maybe there is a sort of a sweet middle ground there, where you can do something with something with like 20 to 40 million and do something which is much more character driven, but still create a sort of visual spectacle around it. That is what I'd like to do.

  Duncan Jones

  Sweet, Character, Driven

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• There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

  Amy Chua

  Confidence, Building, Building Confidence

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.

  Abraham Kaplan

  Mean, Problem, Predicaments

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• I can't do everything but I can do something to help somebody. And what I can do I will do. I wish I could do more.

  Oseola McCarty

  Wish, Helping, I Can

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• There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that

  Woody Harrelson

  Positive Energy, Majority, Who Cares

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• Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well, and the number of men who can do two things well is negligible. If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

  G. H. Hardy

  Sacrifice, Men, Order

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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• Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Can Do

  Gil Scott-Heron (2011). “Now And Then”, p.69, Canongate Books

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• No one can do everything, but everyone can do something, and together we can change the world.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Together We Can, World, Together

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• You can be zany and funny or you can do something that really has some depth to it and serious, so there's many different colors to paint with. I would hate to get trapped in one little thing. I always feel like funny is an appendage, but it is not my whole body.

  Jim Carrey

  Hate, Color, Depth

  Press conference on 'The Number 23', collider.com. February 21, 2007.

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• My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

  Roz Savage

  Advice, Asking, Surprise

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• Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hysteria, Creating, Feelings

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• Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Speeding Cars, Can Do, I Can

  Stephen Dobyns, “Pursuit”

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• We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

  Jay Inslee

  Impact, Climate, Generations

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• Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.

  Fabio Capello

  Soccer, Miracle, Sometimes

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• The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Yoga, Reality

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.61, Rodale

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• You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspiring, Jobs, Home

  Shonda Rhimes’s Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.vulture.com. June 9, 2014.

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• Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Government, Proportion, Can Do

  "Broken Government: Where the right went wrong". CNN, November 03, 2006.

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• Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.

  Dorothy Allison

  Children, Crazy, Believe

  Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.47, Penguin

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