You Can Do It Quotes - Page 13

• It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

  Haruki Murakami

  Attitude, Hard Work, Luck

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• If you have to do it, you can do it.

  James M. Cain

  Can Do, Ifs

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• There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means you become so immersed in his presence, so convinced of his goodness, so devoted to his lordship that you find even the cave is a perfectly safe place to be because he is there with you.

  John Ortberg

  Mean, Caves, Safe

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• You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

  Anne Lamott

  Artist, Finding Yourself, Tea

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• You can do anything you put your mind to, and you can do it in stilettos.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Mind, Stilettos, Night Light

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• That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of the soul. You can do it with a toaster, you can do it with a poem, you can do it by reaching out your hand to a stranger. It doesn't matter what form it takes. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

  Paul Auster

  Men, Hands, Soul

  Paul Auster (2008). “Collected Novels”

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• It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!

  Tracey Ullman

  Girl, Needs, Timeless

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• Do it for joy and you can do it forever

  Stephen King

  Joy, Forever, Can Do

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• I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Real, Thinking, Play

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• There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Worry, Outcomes, Way

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• My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Attitude, Golf, Games

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.

  Julia Gillard

  Leadership, Past, Thinking

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• You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

  Marissa Mayer

  Mom, Fashion, Art

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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• It ain't bragging if you can do it.

  Dizzy Dean

  Bragging, Can Do, Ifs

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• I cannot save the world, that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.

  Mary J. Blige

  Goal, Trying, Example

  "There's something about Mary". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2008.

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• The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.

  Lloyd Dobyns

  Life, Motivational, Pride

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• On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.

  Judith Krantz

  Heart, Hands, Years

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• The same is the case when you enter a womb, enter into a fresh body, and start the journey of desires. But if you die alert, in that alertness not only the body dies, all desires evaporate. Then there is no entering into a womb. Then entering a womb is such a painful process, it is so painful that consciously you cannot do it; only unconsciously you can do it.

  Rajneesh

  Journey, Desire, Entering

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• Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stocky- whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed-to hell with the lot of them if you 'feel' you can do it.

  Percy Cerutty

  School, Home, Training

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• Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Country, Gun, Rifles

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• A suspension program like TRX provides consistency, is great for strength training, and you can do it anywhere, which is good for us because we're always on the go!

  Heather O'Reilly

  Consistency, Training, Always On The Go

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• If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

  William Shatner

  Down And, Pants, Fool

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• Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.

  Mel Gibson

  Secret, Recipes, Wonder

  "Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Director Martin Campbell and Graham King Interview EDGE OF DARKNESS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. January 27, 2010.

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• You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, People, Actors

  "Comic-Con: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Stephenie Meyer Talk THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN Pt. 2". collider.com. July 2, 2012.

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• It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Poor, Good Things, Company

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.199, Macmillan

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