Can Do Quotes - Page 23

• Creativity is a celebration of life... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!

  Joseph C Zinker

  Love Life, Creativity, Celebration

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• When my mind is operating at its peak, it should depress me to think that this is the best I can do, because it's not very good at all. When my mind is operating normally, I should be even more depressed.

  John S. Hall

  Depressing, Thinking, Mind

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• All I can do now is cover the mirrors.

  Helene Aylon

  Mirrors, I Can

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• I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix or prevent many of life's difficulties--or even better, create happiness and well-being for both myself and others. I can do this, and so can you ... if you really want to.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Real, Order, World

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• I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

  Craig Johnson

  Poetry, Littles, Spirituality

  Craig Johnson (2004). “The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery”, p.277, Penguin

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• It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Mistake, People, World

  "Arenas opens up after lengthy hiatus from league, media". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. February 20, 2012.

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• When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Defense, Looks, Matter

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• The thing that happened in Washington -- it happened. All you can do is just grow from it. That took a toll on me. That was probably -- I think if I could've bounced mentally out of that situation faster than I did, I would probably still be in the NBA. But since I couldn't understand why they were trying to treat me like that, I basically gave up. I just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Thinking, Nba, Trying

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• It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber? Guitar manufacturer? Writer .... yeah, writer. I've always loved writing, from a very early age--I guess I was writing my first stories when I was still in single digits. It progressed, and the love of writing grew in my mind and is still growing. Doing it full-time, there are different stresses and tensions, and the business side of it comes to the fore sometimes. But I still love it, and I'm always thankful that I can do what I do and make a living from it.

  Tim Lebbon

  Stress, Writing, Thinking

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• I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.

  Bentley Little

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  "Bentley Little: The Elusive Dark Scribe Speaks". Interview with Vince A. Liaguno, www.darkscribemagazine.com. September 13, 2007.

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• Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Fall, Intelligent

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• Remember, you cannot be responsible for the happiness of other people. You can do your best to be sensitive to the needs and desires of others, but some people will not be happy no matter how much you do for them. If you decided you were responsible for their happiness, you could drive yourself completely up the nearest wall.

  Kevin Leman

  Wall, Remember You, Remembers You

  Kevin Leman (2010). “Why Your Best Is Good Enough”, p.212, Revell

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• Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

  Benjamin Carson

  Effort, Risk, Should

  "Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk". Book by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis, 2008.

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• The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Men, Hands, Giving

  John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.91

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• Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.

  Joel Spolsky

  Mean, Microsoft, Normal

  Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.324, Apress

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• Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.

  Ellen Willis

  Lonely, Opposites, Feelings

  "Three Elegies for Susan Sontag". "New Politics", Vol. X, No. 3, Summer 2005.

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• At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Persistence, Past, Men

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• The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Intellectual, Growth, Way

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Art, Creativity, Technology

  NPR Interview, 1974.

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• In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

  Tacitus

  Men, Quiet, Virtue

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.141, London : Macmillan

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• You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

  Carl Andre

  Art, People, Creative

  "Artists Talks 1969 - 1977". Book edited by Peggy Gale, 2004.

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• The real truth is, there's no such thing as a red state or a blue state, they're all purple. Some are more purple than others and our job is to get them all deep purple and then blue. And we can do that.

  Howard Dean

  Jobs, Real, Blue

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• What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about this. You could walk across the street against a traffic light and get a summons for jaywalking, but you could walk up to a police officer and say "I want to rule the world," and there's nothing he can do about it, that is not a crime. Anybody can want to rule the world. So, even though he was the Fantastic Four's greatest menace, in my mind, he was never a criminal!

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, Doctors, Light

  "Stan Lee's Amazing Marvel Universe". Book by Roy Thomas, 2006.

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• Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Boys, Thinking

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• If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.

  Linus Torvalds

  Done, Development, Way

  "Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. May 14, 2007.

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