Top 100 You Can Make Quotes
#1. Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact.
Seth Godin
#2. If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we'll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been.
Shannon L. Alder
#3. In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent.
Jochen Zeitz
#4. It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.
Andre Rieu
#5. That's the problem with mistakes. You can make'em in an instant. Years upon years spent tiptoeing about like a fool, then you take your eye away for a moment and ... Bang.
Joe Abercrombie
#6. Maybe a good goal would be to just at least always try to create something good. Like something that is connected to love in some way. Like the [musical] equivalent of ... you can make a decision to be kind. You can make a decision to greet people kindly and make jokes with people and connect.
Joanna Newsom
#7. You can make great meals without meat that are, of course, much more healthy for the same price, but it takes a process of reeducation, just because Americans aren't familiar with how to cook vegetables anymore.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#8. You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.
Charles Mengel Allen
#9. When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
Audrey Hepburn
#10. You can just imagine the restrictions of shooting in a prison, but I just decided I'm going to embrace those restrictions sometimes when you don't have many choices you can make the best choices.
Brian Lindstrom
#11. Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.
Deep Roy
#12. Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.
Jason Alexander
#13. The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.
Norman Vincent Peale
#14. Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
Kara Goucher
#15. You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.
Brian Selznick
#16. Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.
Banksy
#17. You can make an idea spread for good but you can also make an idea spread for bad and the power to make an idea spread, memetics, you know which now people talk about memes.
Jay Roach
#18. If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#19. When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
E.W. Howe
#20. You believe you can make it every year. You don't think it's going to end. But the reality is that most teams, you end up in, you end up out.
Lindy Ruff
#22. We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.
Jillian Michaels
#23. You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Max Beerbohm
#24. Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect.
Laozi
#25. It's nice to have a situation where you can make it fun.
Doug Flutie
#26. You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it.
Robert Karl Hanson
#27. You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#28. You can make any promises as long as you are not going to be there to fulfill them.
Pawan Mishra
#29. Why be alone when we can be together baby
You can make my life worthwhile
And I can make you start to smile
Mr. Big
#30. I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.
Phil Rizzuto
#31. You are so unique that you can make your success unlimited & be always needed for nobody can do what you do exactly like you
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#32. The cool thing about being best friends is that you can make big plans even if there's only a slim chance in hell that they'll ever happen.
Yvonne Prinz
#33. What does this mean? Simply that to make DNA, you have to have DNA in the first place! You have to have the DNA code within the cell before you can make more DNA code. Without the complete code in the first place, there is no way to make the code necessary for every living cell!
Lawrence O. Richards
#34. It's hard to train that in practice time. You can make calls, you can make adjustments, but just that pressure, 'This is what it is, this is reality, I need to concentrate on every play,' that's what we've got to get through.
Bret Bielema
#35. I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now.
James Gandolfini
#37. You can make money without doing evil.
Sergey Brin
#38. You can't sit there and feel bad for yourself and say, "But, it's just not coming to me." That's an instinctual thing to do because that's the way the business normally works. But, when you've got a good brain on your shoulders, I think you can make it happen.
Katie Aselton
#39. I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.
Michelle Rodriguez
#40. In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment for everyone.
William Lashner
#41. Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#42. You can make it to AAA ball on talent only. It's difficult but it can be done. But to make it to the big leagues, you HAVE to be coachable. You have to stay coachable.
Dale Murphy
#43. As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.
Richard Rogers
#44. There are ways in which you can make that distinction objective to a certain degree. For example, by looking at responses that could be generated in the brain to exactly the same stimulus and there could be differences there.
Antonio Damasio
#45. Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we've substituted our inarticulateness for saying that there's one and only one structure.
Sarah Ruhl
#46. Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills.
Jim Rohn
#47. I think the best way to be an activist is to live your life well and be honest. It means being out. If you are not comfortable marching, you can make a big difference just by working side by side with someone who actually knows you're gay and a fine human being.
Melissa Etheridge
#48. Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
Glenda Jackson
#49. You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.
Kaitlin Olson
#50. If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.
Alexa Vega
#51. My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.
Duff Goldman
#52. I didn't want to kill anybody, but there comes a point when the only way you can make a statement is to pick up a gun.
Sara Jane Moore
#53. It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.
Robert Harris
#54. I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.
Pico Iyer
#55. I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.
Tom Welling
#56. You can overcome your fears, you cange change, you can make life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. So hang in.
Susane Colasanti
#57. You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that.
Chris Stapleton
#58. You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.
Elisha Cuthbert
#59. No
when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)
Rachel Cohn
#60. My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.
James Salter
#61. No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through ... You can make a difference in this world.
Demi Lovato
#62. When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
Samuel Dash
#63. People are going to judge you for all kinds of reasons for the rest of your life. Because you vote one way or the other, because you go to one school or the other, because you look a certain way. It's a fact of life: you can't make everyone happy. But you can make you happy
Leah Rae Miller
#64. I've learned, in my tragic little life, that memories are like water. Not solid, like some people think. Once something happens, it isn't set it stone. It can change.
You can make yourself believe anything if you lie to yourself enough.
Dawn Kurtagich
#65. Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably made
Mark Zuckerberg
#66. I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
Callie Khouri
#67. I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I'd much rather learn how to make a very good lemon cake, which you can make in your own home. I like plain, old-fashioned home food.
Laurie Colwin
#68. Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.
Norman Vincent Peale
#69. France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
Barbara Cartland
#70. You always think you can make it up to somebody - later, you know.' She took a deep breath. 'But now I never can. I never can.
Alan Dean Foster
#71. It's incredible, ridiculous really, isn't it? You realise you can make more money on the golf tour in one week than some people make in a lifetime.
Rory McIlroy
#72. Mithai teach me big lesson
it easier to love someone if you can make them happy.
Thrity Umrigar
#73. Sometimes everything you know in the world turns out to be a lie. But at the end of the day the lie isn't what matters, it's what you do after you tell it. If you work hard enough you can make it true.
Hope Estheim
#74. The easiest job you'll ever get is to try to make your first film. That's the easy one to get, is the first film because nobody knows whether you can make a film or not.
George Lucas
#75. Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth we just want to be ourselves.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#76. I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.
Stefano Pessina
#77. If you could make them feel as you can make me feel, then perhaps they could forgive you.
Orson Scott Card
#78. That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.
Jonathan Galassi
#79. You have made me give up the hair Father gave me, the eyes Mother left me, the Color I was born to, so I will keep the name they granted me, and you can make it work.
Pierce Brown
#80. In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.
D.A. Wallach
#81. If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.
John Waters
#82. forget about it; if today never becomes a yesterday, at least you can make peace with today. What already happened we can't change, but we can change what happens next!
Aleta Williams
#83. If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.
Nate Ruess
#84. When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.
Janet Fitch
#85. The mister days that letters are the key, but even when you know the whole family, there's so many combinations you can make. And they break their word.
Gregory Maguire
#86. There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet.
Anna Meredith
#87. What is the hypothesis of generosity? What is the most generous assumption you can make about this person's intentions or what this person said?
Brene Brown
#88. There's a plan. If you're willing to fight it hard enough, you can make it detour for a while, but you're still going to end up wherever God wants you to be. G
Homer Hickam
#89. If you can manipulate people, you can make them do anything.
M.F. Moonzajer
#90. The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
Henry L. Stimson
#91. Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.
Elizabeth Kostova
#92. Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
Robert Doisneau
#93. With your hand controlling all the input and your eye reading all the response you can make them a god . . . and somebody'll do the same for you.
James Tiptree Jr.
#94. In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.
Carlton Cuse
#95. You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.
Chuck D
#96. It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.
Jodi Picoult
#98. Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
Bill Walton
#99. Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you can demarcate a national park, but if the people outside want to go creeping into a forest you really can't stop them. They've got to get a benefit.
Jane Goodall
#100. When you have a good stock, you can make a good soup.
Martin Yan
