Can Do Quotes

You can really do more than you think you can do.

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

A six year old can probably do more on their iPad than you can do and access more. My daughter's swiping away windows and doing all these things that I don't know how to do.

Being a celebrity is like being raped, and there's absolutely nothing a player can do about it.

Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

My favorite quarterback is Donovan McNabb. I think he's a complete quarterback. I love the way he can scramble and throw on the run. He can do it all. He can control a game.

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.

We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?

My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.

Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?

Those people who don't have any voluntary control, or hands, can work with the physical movement that they can do - whatever voluntary movement they have, even the slightest .

We are all different, and should do what we can do te remain so.

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do..." speech, he would answer 'ask not.'

I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths.

To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.

Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

My father is also gifted at business, which is a blessing and a curse, because if you have the kind of mind that he does where you can do anything very well, that in its own way is sort of limiting.

There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

Everybody has a finite amount of energy and limits to what he or she can do. Listen to your body. It will talk to you if you're willing to listen.

I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much do anything you want. I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

He can do most who has most power.

For example, this, what I said about the bishops who move pedophile priests, the best thing they can do is resign. This isn't a dogmatic thing, but this is what I think.

There is nothing the Church can do except try to educate people to become good consumers.

No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

No one know what he can do till he tries.

I thought "I've coped with some crazy situations, and I can do this." But working with Roman Polanski is so different from the fashionable and accepted way of directing now.

An actor cannot say no, it’s against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it’s very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.

Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.

You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here

I don't think there's anything better you can do in this world than bring light wherever you go.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

All rehab can do is tell you what’s wrong with you and then suggest ways for you to get better.