Can Do Quotes - Page 37

• If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level.

  Michael Pollan

  Important, Levels, Making Changes

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.

  Michael Pollan

  Ignorance, World, Eating

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Sometimes you can do certain things on stage, or even in a TV series, and people see the look on your face and they know what you mean, so you can get away with certain things. But if you can't create that look on an animated character, which is essentially a puppet, the line will hit the audience in a very bad way.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Character, Mean, People

  Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. November 3, 2007.

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• Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

  Sophia Bush

  Passion, School, Doctors

  Source: z15.invisionfree.com

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• In a sense my whole life as a writer is trying to find structural ways, or formal ways, to permit that outflowing so it doesn't just look like crazy output. In other words, if it turns out that you can do a given voice, that's just kind of inclination. But then if you can find a way to put that voice in a story so that the voice serves a purpose, then I would say that's being a writer.

  George Saunders

  Crazy, Voice, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Doors, Balance, Shifting

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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• I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

  Justin Timberlake

  Creating, Expectations, Worry

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• There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.

  Robert Greene

  People, Political, Stuff

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• I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Fool, Kind

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• Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Mean, Ability, Businessman

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• My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Giving, Tasks, Firsts

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• As the owner of the company, I'm always focusing on how my company can do more for less. And it's one of the principles of the world.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Principles, World, Owners

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• I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.

  Veronica Roth

  Mean, People, Important

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• I don't want to tell people what to think. I'm the least qualified person in the world for that. If I'd go around pretending to be the expert on everything, I'd become Dan Brown, and I don't understand that. We all do our research if we're good writers, and we all work hard to get it right, but that doesn't mean we're experts in the field. The best we can do is challenge people to learn the facts themselves.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hard Work, Mean, Thinking

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• Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  People, Trying, Tears

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV, How the Idea Came about, His Collaborative Company, Inspiring People to Contribute, and Plans for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 15, 2014.

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• I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Bored, Effort

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• What if you can't do what you once did, like run and jump up and down? You can walk, which is also good for your mind and mental attitude. You can do simpler exercises, like getting up and down from a chair without using your hands. You can stay fairly flexible. The most important thing is to not become sedentary.

  Richard Simmons

  Running, Attitude, Exercise

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• You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily. When you're young, you don't want to hear that. You think you can do everything, be all things.

  Chadwick Boseman

  Thinking, Want, Might

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to it but I don't want to be a confessional performer.

  David Rees

  Talking, Want, Performers

  Source: www.gq.com

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• When people say that a certain sport is not a sport - have them play that sport and see if they can do it. Golf is one of the hardest sports you've ever played. Bowling is all about concentration, it's all about focus, it's all about aim.

  Dwyane Wade

  Sports, Golf, Play

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• I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

  James Franco

  People, Perception, Decided

  "A Minute With: James Franco on villains and being James Franco". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. November 27, 2013.

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• If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Jobs, Work, Thinking

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.141, Penguin

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• When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.

  Philippe Petit

  World, Impossible, Young

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• It gives us more flexibility, so we can do more, but it also creates the expectation of the instant response. It can take away your sense of control over your time.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Giving, Expectations, Over You

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• Consider, for example, lust versus love. When we lust after someone or something, we think in terms of what they (or it) can do for us. When we love, however, our thoughts are immersed in what we can give to someone else. Giving makes us feel good, so we do it happily. But when we lust, we only want to take. When someone we love is in pain, we feel pain. When someone whom we lust is in pain, we only think in terms of what that loss or inconvenience means to us.

  David J. Lieberman

  Pain, Mean, Loss

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