Can Do Quotes

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

I find that in preparation for a drama you can do a lot of character work and develop the character and know what you want to achieve and project throughout the course of the film.

Investing in girls' education is the very best thing we can do, not just for our daughters and granddaughters, but for their families, their communities, and their countries.

No matter who is in the White House, I just keep doing what my grandmother taught me. Hate debt. Save. The best any of us can do really.

It's incredible what we can do if we really want to do it. All we need is to be aware of what we are doing and to return to the authenticity we were born with.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.

Gillian [Jacobs] is brilliant, and it was Lena Dunham that recommended her. I didn't see her in the part, but Lena told me that Gillian can do anything. It turned out to be true.

The Christian life is what you do when you realize that you can do nothing.

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

Singing is something you can do for a lifetime, and studies prove it is good for mental, physical, social and psychological health.

Do the IMPRACTICAL so that God can do the IMPOSSIBLE!

I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it.

You can do a movie for Disney or not. People will still ask you inappropriate questions. So in order to answer it, do I feel like there's a difference in promoting it? Apparently not.

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

Mobile is no longer about what you can do on your cell phone. Mobile is all about doing more, all of the time.

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.

The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

The most potent thing we can do is to bring more compassion online.

You can do anything in London, as long as you don't do it on the street.

I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered away.

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

The only thing you can do to make me that angry is to lie with another man" ~ Raphael, Guild Hunter, Nalini Singh

I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear. I seek a society non-reliant on nuclear energy, a society that can do without nuclear energy, and Japan can prove a role model. It’s possible.

Almost 4.25 lakh toilets were built in 2.62 schools nationwide in one year; this gives self-confidence that we can do what we want.

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab.

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.

There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like.

If you leave school at 16 then, in all probability, there is a machine that can do what you can do better and cheaper. And Trump can't do anything to change that.

In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.

The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't. It's really peculiar.

We live in a time where women should feel empowered; they have every right. I've always been attracted to women who show [that they can do anything].

The greatest player in the world. He's got a fantastic vision of the game, and what he can do technically - it's crazy.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

Choose to give your creative art priority over other things. You can do it.

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.

Always push beyond what you can do.

When I left, it was for you. Coming back was for you. There’s nothing you can say, nothing you can do that would make me leave you again.

Sometimes it’s all you can do,” he murmured. “Fight back; run wild, until you get it all out.” “Sometimes there is nothing to fight and nowhere to run.

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.