What I Can Do Quotes

#1. It's not just about what I can SEE for our future, or humanity; it's about what I can DO for our future and humanity.

Steve Maraboli

#2. I can't wait to see what I can do, now that I'm no longer standing in my own way.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#3. There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.

Kirsty Coventry

#4. I don't dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just a number.

Nola Ochs

#5. I can't go back and change the already done actions but what i can do is to create a new legislation

Ahmed Gamal Abdel Gawad

#6. A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

Alan Arkin

#7. I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

Daryl Hall

#8. To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

Pat Schneider

#9. Dear is my friend
yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good:
My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.

Friedrich Schiller

#10. What I can do, I will do. What I can't do, I will surrender to the one that can.

E'yen A. Gardner

#11. If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

Jacques Derrida

#12. I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

Robin Trower

#13. I like to see how other people work and be part of their stuff and see what I can do to be part of their worlds. Its a pretty big challenge, and that excites me.

Brendon Urie

#14. And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.

Neale Donald Walsch

#15. All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.

Diana Gabaldon

#16. I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

Gabe Kaplan

#17. I don't concentrate on things I can't do. I do what I can do.

Betty Cuthbert

#18. There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.

Rick Baker

#19. Watch it." he said at last. "I can make your life miserable." I gave him an icy smile. "You already have, and that's why i've got the advantage. You've done your worst but you haven't seen what i can do yet.

Richelle Mead

#20. I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

Malachy McCourt

#21. I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.

Willow Shields

#22. People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.

Emile Hirsch

#23. He sees me based on what I can do for him, not who I am. He has an image of me and he doesn't want to see beneath the image. You can't be with a man who is unwilling or unable to see the real you.

Cathy Lamb

#24. The funny thing is I'm actually really insecure. I have a lot of girl issues - 'I'm not pretty enough,' 'I'm not skinny enough' - but there is a confidence I have in what I can do. I did tend to overcompensate to cover up other insecurities that I have.

Lindsay Pearce

#25. Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.

Brandon Sanderson

#26. I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appropriate, advocate for feminism and help the students learn what feminism is about.

Roxane Gay

#27. People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

Eddie Trunk

#28. I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm an interpreter. I like getting a script, seeing a character and thinking, "Oh, wow, I know what I can do with that."

Mark Strong

#29. I know what I can do, so I never doubt myself.

Usain Bolt

#30. There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.

Chris Witty

#31. And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily
open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.

Eugene H. Peterson

#32. I prefer to rejoice in what I can do, not mourn what I can't.

Lena Maria

#33. I have to go out there and show scouts and GMs and coaches just what I can do: Run as fast as I can and try to show them I have great hands and good technique where I can be on the line blocking.

Maxx Williams

#34. Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

Andy Summers

#35. He simply shook his head. 'If your point of reference is a glimpse you've caught of a business transaction conducted in an alley, I'd venture that you have no idea what I can do with a wall.

Courtney Milan

#36. I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns.

Delia Sherman

#37. Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

Trace Adkins

#38. I try to be the best I can be at what I can do, and that's playing hard & rebounding.

Tristan Thompson

#39. I'm never going to get used to hearing a woman talk like that."
"Shocking, is it?"
"Hard to shock an old sailor," he said. "But I'd love to see you try."
"Come upstairs," she said. "We'll see what I can do.

Tiffany Reisz

#40. I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

Danica Patrick

#41. I'm talking about the heavy shit, Anastasia. You should see what I can do with a cane or a cat.

E.L. James

#42. I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

A-Trak

#43. I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.

Paul Auster

#44. I go back to my desk, flip open my cell, and stare at the keypad. I want to hear his voice so badly, to be connected to him, to ask him why and how and what I can do to make it better. But you can't force someone to love you.

Daria Snadowsky

#45. I'd said thank you. And apologized. It was more than I thought I'd ever do.
"You're welcome," he said, his expression lost in the shadows. "I'll see what I can do about the no lying ... thing." And inclining his head, he vanished.

Kim Harrison

#46. I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

Michael Moore

#47. I just want to go out there and do what I can do, contribute in the ways that I can. Whether I get exposure or not, it's about winning.

Steven Hill

#48. I think doing 'Teen Wolf' is just giving me a really great opportunity to possibly get other jobs and show what I can do.

Colton Haynes

#49. I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.

Christina Aguilera

#50. My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do.

Jonas Salk

#51. Financial security is a constant in my life. I allow my income to constantly expand, no matter what the newspapers and economists say. I move beyond my present income, and I go beyond the economic forecasts. I do not listen to people out there telling me how far I can go or what I can do.

Louise Hay

#52. I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her.

Michelle Hodkin

#53. Will an hour be enough?"
An hour implied that I needed a lot of help. "I'll see what I can do," I said coolly. I was ready in twenty minutes.

Karen Marie Moning

#54. Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

Simon Wiesenthal

#55. I'm not one of those people who can cry on cue. If I have to cry in an audition, I'm like, 'Okay, let me see what I can do.'

Melanie Lynskey

#56. Well, I guess you can really gut a man with your little finger."
He flashed her a look so flat and cold and full of death, she knew he'd earned every awe and terrified word ever spoken about him.
"That is the least of what I can do." (Shannisorran v'EnCelay aka Lord Death)

C.L. Wilson

#57. It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.

K'naan

#58. What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.

Randy Moss

#59. If I am taking a job, I really want to do it 100% on a daily basis, and that's not what I can do right now.

Thomas Dooley

#60. What are you most scared of, Caitlin? What I can do to you, or how I make you feel?

Lindsay J. Pryor

#61. I want to prove myself. I don't even know what I can do, because no one's let me try.

Kit Rocha

#62. I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.

Francesca Annis

#63. Yeah, you can ask that and I'll promise to do what I can do. But, Ace, since I was a kid, I had a temper. Tellin' you that don't mean I can't compromise, just means I am who I am, I know who I am, and you gotta take me as I am and learn to get over it.

Kristen Ashley

#64. In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

Sherman Alexie

#65. But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.

Guy Clark

#66. You know damn well that's not how the wire works, and if you weren't afraid of it, you'd have one yourself. It's the same as the implants, just like the dollie-slots, but it gives me an edge, yeah, because I'm not afraid of it, of what I can do with it.

Melissa Scott

#67. I don't want people instructing me what to do with my body; I don't want the government to tell me what I can do in my bedroom, with my body, or with whoever I choose to love.

Tyne Daly

#68. My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.

Lucy Lawless

#69. I'm not in a certain type of genre, and I can't be categorized or pigeonholed. That leaves a wide range of what I can do for myself, for other people, and with other people.

Shamir

#70. It's funny because when I got 'Jarhead' and 'Avatar' and all those movies, 'Leprechaun' still to this day airs on BET. I was thinking, 'Will they just let it go? I finally have a body of work that can speak much better to what I can do than just Leprechaun.'

Laz Alonso

#71. What I care the most is what I can do for people. I am not into it for recognition; if it comes it will happen out of my own effort.

Carlos Machado

#72. I find that I love so much stuff and respect so many people who work in this industry and music in general. I've kind of learned that I've got to just stick to what I can do and try and do that really.

Steven Price

#73. I am not one to compare long melodies as did Mozart. I can't get beyond short themes. But what I can do, is to utilize such a theme, paraphrase it and extract everything that is in it, and I don't think there's anybody today who can match me at that.

Stefan Zweig

#74. My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

William Jennings Bryan

#75. Just wait until you see what I can do with the fancy stuff, like a bed.

Thea Harrison

#76. I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do.

Raekwon

#77. I'm excited about the opportunity to get out there and show not only what I can do but, more importantly, what this team can do with me in there.

Philip Rivers

#78. I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

David Byrne

#79. I don't play tennis to prove a point to anyone. I play for my country and myself. It's not changing what people say or think. It's about what I can do. If I feel I have the ability to achieve something and haven't used my potential to that end, I'll keep trying till I succeed.

Sania Mirza

#80. I do not know what I can do for this world but I will not let any harm come to you

Samantha Shannon

#81. Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#82. I love to look at my life and look at what I can do better, how I can contribute more and where I can push myself.

Daphne Oz

#83. I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.

Steve Carell

#84. I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

Paul McCartney

#85. Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

Bette Midler

#86. I need insulin to stay alive. It's just therapy to keep going. What I can do is make sure that I keep my blood sugar down to a reasonable level. I can exercise, and I can eat properly. And insulin plays a very big part in that.

Mary Tyler Moore

#87. If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.

Ezra Miller

#88. I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do.

Lionel Messi

#89. Con?"
He blew out a breath. "You exhaust me."
"No, I don't."
I caught his smile before he grew serious again. "I'll see what I can do.

Anne Zoelle

#90. I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish.

Rudy Giuliani

#91. What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

Tim Berners-Lee

#92. 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

#93. Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

Malachy McCourt

#94. We're surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves ... They say, 'Look what I can do,' and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that's ridiculous. Filmmaking isn't a contest!

Jan De Bont

#95. I came back late last night at the Athlete's Village so I'm a little bit surprised about my time this morning. It's really good and I'm going to race tonight and tomorrow night so I'm excited to see what I can do.

Katerine Savard

#96. It's not what I can do; it's what I will do. If you wake up and try to help one person and change that person's life, every obstacle you face in front of you is worth it.

Kyle Maynard

#97. I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.

Mercedes McCambridge

#98. I transcend earthly bounds. I never cease to amaze myself because I haven't yet found my limits. I am quite ready to accept the limits of what I can do, but every time I feel that way - boom! - God touches me and I do something that's even more stupendous than whatever I've done up to then.

Don King

#99. I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?

Sarah Jessica Parker

#100. I have to believe in myself. I know what I can do, what I can achieve.

Sergio Garcia