Quotes About Can Do Something

#1. I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.

David Crosby

#2. Before you can do something that you've never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

#3. I learned from Jurassic Park that just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Christopher C. Starr

#4. One thing is certain: That is that the power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. That is a fact.

Daisaku Ikeda

#5. You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

H.L. Mencken

#6. There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right!

Henry Ford

#7. One can do something if one can see and understand it ...

Claude Monet

#8. I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

Andre Kertesz

#9. Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.

Laura Schlessinger

#10. I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Queen Elizabeth II

#11. I can't do everything but I can do something to help somebody. And what I can do I will do. I wish I could do more,

Oseola McCarty

#12. If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.

Brennan Manning

#13. Faith does not minimize our suffering. Faith does not say, "It's no big deal." Faith does not pretend that a situation is not painful or scary. What faith does do is take our problem to the One who really cares and can do something about it.

Matthew C. Mitchell

#14. Just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should.

David Eddings

#15. Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

Orlando Bloom

#16. I wish I could hear more children say I can do something instead of I can't! Self-motivation will always lead them to greater & better heights in their lives!

Timothy Pina

#17. If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

Dalai Lama XIV

#18. I like potential in people. If I find someone who has lot of potential and can do something with life, then I don't see bank balance, which family he comes from, or his religion.

Sonam Kapoor

#19. Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.

Jodi Picoult

#20. The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I'll sign up, but it has to be in the hands of a director who can do something with it. Ultimately, it's a director's medium.

Andy Garcia

#21. I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.

Karl Malone

#22. I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

Stana Katic

#23. My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

Panayiotis Zavos

#24. As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

Mark Webber

#25. If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.

Anna Olson

#26. A lot of people these days are selfish type. Nobody can do something on this problem! - It's a problem let's left it like this.

Deyth Banger

#27. You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius ...

Margot Asquith

#28. Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits.

John Kao

#29. There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that

Woody Harrelson

#30. You have a skill. You can do something no one else can," Barron says. "Seriously. You know what's good about that? It's valuable. As in you can trade it for goods or services. Or money. Remember when I said it was wasted on you? I was so right.

Holly Black

#31. Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

Antonio Damasio

#32. Just worry about things you can do something about. The rest wil take care of itself

Kirsten Beyer

#33. I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#34. You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit so that you don't overeat, or change up your cheese from dairy to nondairy.

Kathy Freston

#35. How do you calibrate pain?" asked Jamie. "By cutting out the background pain of the world," answered Isabel. "By cutting all that out, not registering it, and responding only to those painful things that we can do something about. Because otherwise ...

Alexander McCall Smith

#36. Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light.

Frederick Lenz

#37. My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.

Alison Eastwood

#38. Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

Ray Comfort

#39. 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.

Peter Sarsgaard

#40. The basics of running this town are very simple. All you need to do is reward those with something to offer, and the way to recognize them is that they can do something you can't; it's that simple. And when you identify them, you protect them with the meanest bastards you can find.

Matt Mayr

#41. That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something ... And if you do it, you'll be happier.

William J. Clinton

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

Desmond Tutu

#43. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something

Max Lucado

#44. The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

Harry Shearer

#45. It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show ... " I'm still writing about heartbreak that happened years ago. I don't see the point of writing and putting out another record until I can do something else.

Sharon Van Etten

#46. Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.

Henry Ford

#47. If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

L. Ron Hubbard

#48. You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.

Shonda Rhimes

#49. That's the beauty about beauty; it's not like a tattoo. You can just wash it right off, and your skin is your canvas, so you can do something new the next day.

Michelle Phan

#50. Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!

Hiromi

#51. When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

Frank Chodorov

#52. You can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

Elie Wiesel

#53. I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.

Mallory Ortberg

#54. There's no need to inundate the world with books and language. It's just too full already. There's so much rubbish hiding in the world. But as long as I think I can do something inventive and insightful, then I'll keep doing it.

Robert Coover

#55. The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world.
There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.

Peter Hoeg

#56. I guess I feel the same way about being a corpse. Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful?

Mary Roach

#57. Before you can do something you must first be something.

John Gielgud

#58. I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

Bonnie Raitt

#59. You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

Gillian Jacobs

#60. God can do something with those who see what they really are and who know their need of cleansing but can do nothing with the man who feels himself worthy.

Fulton J. Sheen

#61. A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

Walt Disney

#62. I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.

Hillary Clinton

#63. No matter how many times you've been told no, you can do something or make it happen if you really want it badly because life is all about who delivers when you get out there".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#64. The fact that you can do something doesn't mean you are called to do it.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#65. The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone ... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.

Thomas S. Monson

#66. Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

Criss Jami

#67. A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.

Karen Traviss

#68. Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#69. It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.

James E. Faust

#70. The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

Ernest Hemingway,

#71. Don't wait for other people to tell you whether you can do something. You can do something whenever you want.

Nick Lang

#72. Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

Jacques Attali

#73. Each of us can do something to help someone.

Thomas S. Monson

#74. Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.

Kate Ashfield

#75. I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.

Nan Goldin

#76. I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

Josh Hartnett

#77. Life is Happiness. Happiness is the fact that I can do something right now.

Lee Donghae

#78. You only know you can do something if you keep on doing it.

Jenny Han

#79. You can do something no one else can do in a fashion no one else can do it.

Max Lucado

#80. It's all mental management. Whether you can do something or not is in your head.

Kris Carr

#81. Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Lou Holtz

#82. You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

Steven C. Hawthorne

#83. We can't do everything at once, but, by God, we can do something at once! Changing

Andy Andrews

#84. strengthening habitual patterns of suffering. We begin to see this more and more clearly, and we begin to realize that we can do something different.

Pema Chodron

#85. Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

Mia Hamm

#86. As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.

Sheryl Sandberg

#87. People only complain about things they can do something about.

Jack Canfield

#88. 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.

David Fincher

#89. We lose and lose, but we're still here. Shaking in place, afraid of doing something. I'm tired of settling for this because I don't know if something better exists. It has to. What point is there otherwise? I can do something about it now. And I will.

Veronica Rossi

#90. I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.

Piper Laurie

#91. I think you hope, throughout the course of your career, if you do things right often enough, you might get a moment in time that you can do something special.

Tim Howard

#92. All of us make mistakes because of youth or ignorance or both. We can't do much about youth, but we can do something about ignorance.

Howard Buffett

#93. When you don't know what to do, do something. I know you don't know what to do and I know you can't do everything right now, but you can do something.

Andy Andrews

#94. But as Acheron so often says, just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you should.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#95. I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.

Matt Dillon

#96. We're the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

Jay Inslee

#97. Your ability?' Jay leaned closer, whispering. 'I think everyone here can do something cool, you know? Like run super fast. Or see people naked!' He nodded. 'I want that one.

Nathan M. Farrugia

#98. If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?

Dalai Lama

#99. The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

Raj Chetty

#100. On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn't understand that you don't get another take ever. I'm finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake.

Kirsten Vangsness