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“You can gain the mastery over skill if only you will invest time to work hard.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.”
“You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.”
“You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.”
Source: The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
“You can gerrymander one district, but it's very difficult to gerrymander the whole country.”
“You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.”
“You can get a coalition of senators from particular states in America, for example, who want to construct highways or dams or ports which may well be very inefficient. The taxes would be paid by the people over the whole country, but the benefits would go to the few people in those particular locations. This type of spending is a rather gross waste of resources that worsened over the years as the government has been allowed to do more particularized things.”
“You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships.”
Source: The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership
“You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.”
“You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.”
Source: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
“You can get a much better fee - I tell you as auditors quite frankly - it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta.”
“You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I don't smoke, or drink a lot of alcohol, and I train almost every day.”
“You can get a sense of the wonderful power of framing by holding your fingers up in a kind of square, walking around the room and framing it differently - how that changes the nature of what you think the room is like.”
“You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.”
“You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.”
“You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness,
Like resignation to the end, Always the end.”
“You can get addicted to a living being too,
a beautiful feeling – dangerous but beautiful.”
Source: Red Sugar, No More
“You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?”
“You can get all A's and still flunk life.”
“You can get an audience, you can get followers all over the world and there's great power and excitement in those connections but there also is grave danger of misinterpretation, sometimes something can be incendiary and we also see what I think of as an arms race between these new technologies that allow for expression and communication and then new methods of surveillance and suppression.”
“You can get an Egg McMuffin all day; you just can't get the hamburger all day.”
“You can get an ice-cold Coke for around fifty cents in most developing countries, not just in the major population centers, but at the most remote and surprising places. The logistical challenges to resupplying all these outlets are enormous - and yet, the entire system works with incredible efficiency as is confirmed by the price of the product.”
“You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.”
“You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you.”
Source: Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
“You can get anything you want in this life if you help enough other people get what they want.”
“You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.”
Source: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
“You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.”
Source: Shame
“You can get anywhere on earth by falling asleep.”
“You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“You can get arrested if you live in Russia, and you say that there is war in Ukraine. You can only say “special operation”. There is a popular joke in Russia: Tolstoy’s War and Peace should be now renamed Special Operation and Peace.”
“You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.”
“You can get attached to plants when you lose faith in people.”
Source: 5,000 Kilometers per Second
“You can get away with anything as long as it works.”
“You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.”
Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
“You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.”
“You can get base hits or home runs, but you can’t get a grand slam without both.”
“You can get better, or you can get all gooey, and crotchety, old, pathetic, icky, gross. Not me. Not into it.”
“You can get bogged down in a recipe that's got a lot of steps and a million ingredients, and it takes all day to make. And then you realize, you've just got one dish. For Thanksgiving, you want an abundance of choices, and so you want dishes that you can put together really quickly, but that doesn't mean less flavor.”
“You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.”
“You can get connections in lots of ways. You can get it by a friendship. You can get it by a dog. You can get it by a child. You can get it by being attached to a cause. You can get it by having huge problems and sharing those problems with other people.”
“You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.”
Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.”
“You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.”
“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
“You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.”
“You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.”
“You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.”
“You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.”
Source: For Your Eyes Only