Can Do Quotes

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don't have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.

We need Trump to lead the liberal democratic order around the world. No other nation can do that the way we can, and it's going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.

Managers should understand there are some simple things they can do tomorrow that will make a big difference in their culture, but so few managers do them.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

For us who choose our dreams over our love the only thing we can do for love is perhaps to release the lock around our necks. Through that, the pain may vanish.

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.

The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes or no based on what it inspires in you.

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.

Television has its opportunities. It allows you more hours; there's more demand, and it keeps you working. If you can do something innovating and fresh, it can be very rewarding.

If you can make the day, you can do whatever you want.

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.

The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it.

I don't have any trouble believing that you would avoid something seemingly perfect because you're in something you really want to prove to yourself you can do right.

It's about stepping up on the big stage. The athlete who can do that is goig to do well.

Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.

And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who double checked with Macey) is the single-sexiest thing a guy can do.

Obviously the Internet has become something of a leveler; it was once a luxury to be able to reach a mass audience, and now anybody can do it, to some extent.

My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)

Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.

I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women, because it's so hard and I have so much respect for anyone who can do it.

I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.

We challenge our kids to be close around the 2:00 mark. If we can do that we can win games.

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.

Sometimes the worst thing you can do, personally, is the best thing you can do, professionally.

So much one man can do that does both act and know.

Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine.

I'm really interested in bands that sound nothing like anything I do or can do. That's what interests me.

Only do what only you can do.

I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that'll be the new way.

I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.

First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.