Can Do Quotes - Page 17

• I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jobs, Hate, People

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• I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.

  Mary Oliver

  Art, Believe, Imagination

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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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• There is no use getting angry at something that has already happened.All you can do is your best to check it doesn't happen again.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Use, Checks, Angry

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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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• It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.

  Lee Iacocca

  Pain, Believe, White

  "Lee Iacocca On Chrysler's Bankruptcy" by Julie Halpert, www.newsweek.com. April 29, 2009.

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• All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.

  Philip Roth

  Player, Self, Identity

  "The Counterlife". Book by Philip Roth, 1986.

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• Don't do anything that someone else can do.

  Edwin Land

  "The Vindication of Edwin Land". Forbes magazine, (Vol. 139, p. 83), May 4, 1987.

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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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• I think the people already know what they're doing wrong, and I certainly believe in Hell. But to me, when I see thousands of people before me, it just doesn't come out of me to say, 'You guys are terrible, and you're going to Hell.' I'd rather say that God is a God of mercy. You've got to live an obedient life, but for every mistake you've made, there's mercy there, and I believe we can do better.

  Joel Osteen

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.cbn.com

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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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• I think the most takes I've ever done would probably be maybe 10, on like a big studio movie where you can do those. But after a while it's like, "It's not gonna get any better, this is what it is," the light's just gonna dull from your eyes. I think the more you do it, the less the actors listen to each other because then you start memorizing the other person's lines and you start getting bored.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Eye, Thinking, Light

  "Jennifer Lawrence Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, Her Tabloid “Feud” with Kristen Stewart, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Dream, Believe, Kids

  "Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews Interview TOOTH FAIRY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 19, 2010.

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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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• By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably the most loyal team of eight players of any business in America.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Team, Player

  "Steve Jobs Biography Examines How Rule-Breaker Tied ‘Artistry to Engineering’". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. October 28, 2011.

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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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• A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.

  Tony Robbins

  Children, Men, Today

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.

  Jessica Chastain

  Character, Play, Voice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You know what? I'm not going to beat myself up. I did the best I can do, and so I'm going to believe that - I'm going to believe good things about myself.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Good Things, Beats

  "Pastor Joel Osteen on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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