“My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.” PeopleWritingWholeSongGoalCan DoAbilityKnowingRecordsInspireRelateJust OneSongwriters Author:Kate Voegele
“You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it.” KnowsWantCan DoKnowingConfidenceMountainClimbsClimbingYou Can Do ItAscendingMotorsports Author:Alex Zanardi
“The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.” HardPlayParentCan DoKnowingHard WorkPlay Hard Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson
“This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .” KnowsWorldEvilCan DoKnowingTerrorLimitationFatigueSuperficiality Book:Uncommon Sense Source: Uncommon Sense
“Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.” WantBelieveDoneLanguageCan DoKnowing Author:Denis Donoghue
“I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.” IfsWayWantI CanImportantIdeasCan DoKnowingDirectResponseCraveI Can Do It Author:Errollyn Wallen
“The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.” IfsJobsCan DoAnswersKnowingTeacherTeachingStudentsExcitingSellsExcitedGoodsStirring Author:Julius Sumner Miller
“As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.” WorldWayYearsKindChildrenHelpingUseRealityParentGoalCan DoDealsKnowingShapesConcernedOur ChildrenAlternativesMaskCrucialSuggestionsUrgentUsing Words Author:Betty Edwards
“Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is the most powerfully creative thing you can do with your life. And not only do we have to put our feelings at the heart of our ambitions, we have to pursue our desires in a way that is life-affirming, rather than soul-depleting. Rigid goal-chasing is burning us out. Soul-anchored intentions are the way to get home.” WayWantFeelsHeartSoulFeelingsHomeFormDesireGoalCan DoCreativeKnowingAmbitionIntentionPursueClarityBurningMost PowerfulChasingAffirmingLife Affirming Author:Danielle LaPorte
“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
“Columbus was an Abraham, for he went out not knowing whither he went. Columbus was a Moses, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Only the man of faith is the man of power. Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. God grant that to-day in that bark we may be wafted by God's blessing, and may land at last on the shores of Heaven, where we shall sing a sweeter Te Deum than that which awoke the echoes on the soil of virgin America, or those amid the splendors of the court at Barcelona.” MenMayLastsAmericaHeavenCan DoKnowingImpossibleSeeingLandHe ManBlessingCourtInvisibleSoilGrantsShoreNot KnowingEchoesVirginsMosesAbrahamSplendorBarkColumbusBarcelona Author:Robert Stuart MacArthur
“Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.” YearsHumansCan DoKnowingFiguresSkillsConnectionsMotivatedRobotsPush Ups Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off.” ThinkingYearsFirstsI CanTwoFeelingsCan DoKnowingYears AgoGolfDrinkingNervousTwo YearsSoberTournamentsI Can Do ItPlaying GolfGreat FeelingsTwo Years Ago Author:John Daly
“Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.” Can DoKnowingHip HopRapHipsHopsNot KnowingYou Can Do ItVocalDelivery Author:Ice T