“Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.” WayWellsI CanImportantSometimesStatesBigsBeautifulCan DoMy OwnMistakeBrainHellWillingProjectsLuckComplicatedStrikesAwfulConvinceMaking MistakesReverenceRight WayFreezeI Can Do ItSave MeInadequacySweating Author:Katherine Dunn
“In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.” MenYearsCountryHomeLastsFacesCan DoEqualMajorityEqualityConvincedConvince Author:Gloria Steinem
“You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You simply have to say, "Look. I love you, but I cannot stand by and watch you kill yourself slowly. When you want help I'm here. Until then, goodbye." That may sound cruel, but self-preservation is paramount to helping someone else. If you're a wreck, you're useless to them, anyway. And if they refuse help, despite knowing the likely outcome, they will head down that path anyway.” IfsWantLooksMaySelfHelpingTurnsSoundCan DoRealizingWatchesKnowingPathLove YouRefuseDespiteUselessOutcomesGoodbyeConvincePreservationWrecksSelf PreservationParamountOne You LoveSomeone You LoveKilling YourselfHelping Someone Author:Ellen Hopkins
“... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.” GivingTwoCan DoTheoryLikesOrganizedTwo ThingsConvinceInvitationsUneasyOrganized ReligionDominatingApologeticBluster Book:The Folks at Home Source: The Folks at Home
“You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.” PeopleSometimesCan DoConvinceLiteralCan Do Something Author:Gillian Jacobs
“Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.” MenBelieveMotherCan DoChallengesConvinceEmployersLegislators Author:Karen DeCrow
“If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have to change the way people act. You have to convince people, and change people.” PeopleIfsWayCan DoLaborRangeConvinceFixingDefine Yourself Author:Deborah Meier