Can Do Quotes

Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.

You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

It's just that you don't have to bring it to every stage. You can do a fundraiser for people that you support. You don't necessarily have to talk about one thing or another when you're on your own.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes.

Life can be a fearful thing. Everyone needs someone drawing alongside, saying “You can do it. Don’t quit.” Everyone needs someone who believes in them. Everyone needs encouragement.

You can do anything, not everything

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

I think one of the most wonderful things we can do as performers is to remind audiences that they can still relate to the emotions and feelings, as though the music had been written yesterday.

Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time.

And sometimes the hardest thing you can do is walk away. But you got to. And, when you do, it changes your life.

All the angels in the whole universe care about you; and if God wants to dispatch them all, He can do it.

Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of recycling is going on this year. For example, Bushes and Clintons.

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

When you walk on the set, whatever it is, you commit yourself to the job. You're committing yourself to doing the best you can do with it, no matter what you feel about it, and that never changes.

I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.

First, you've got to get the job. "Yeah, I can do it," I would say. When I was a kid, I could do anything. Lucky nobody ever asked me if I could fly a jet plane.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

The easiest thing any of us can do is give up. It doesn't matter how many no's you go through.

Some guys can do digital things where they make some tricks work, but I work on paper and I work with washes. You can't just change things afterwards. You have to get it right on the page.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

If the most you can do right now is walk around the block, then do that, and you will be surprised how quickly you increase your endurance and enthusiasm for moving and breathing.

The most good you can do for yourself spiritually is to live your life with total love, conviction, and purpose.

Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.

As you focus on simplifying your life, make sure that your approach to the process is a loving and accepting one. Know that you are doing all that you can do right now, and that is all anyone can do.

Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.

Dare to accomplish the things you've only dreamed about doing. If you can dream it, you can do it.

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.

Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

You can do something really radical, which is turn your phone off and reclaim your private life.

While we won't be able to help the 10,000 people who died in last year's [Ebola] outbreak, we can do something to save untold numbers of lives in the future if NIH is working at full strength.

Everyone has a bowling story. I love bowling because you can do it at age 2 - my son started when he learned to walk - or you can bowl at 102. It's great for families.

What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.

Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an open mind.

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.

My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.

In these early games you're focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There's not a lot you can do in terms of preparing and in terms of scouting.

Writing is flat, so if you only have part of one eye working, you still can do the job. It's just that you sit there and you're angry, which doesn't help.

The worst thing you can do is allow a coalition to determine what your mission is.

I'm automatically attracted to beautiful women - I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.