“I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantShowsCan DoBeatsBotherYou Can Do ItRetired Author:Bill Murray
“My personal view is, why don't you get out there and try to do something about the things that you don't like, create the jobs that we are lacking, rather than just yell and scream. But if you want to yell and scream, we'll make sure you can do it.” IfsWantTryingJobsCan DoViewsWallScreamLackingYou Can Do ItPersonal Views Author:Michael Bloomberg
“I love doing 'Castle.' We pump out 24 episodes in 10 months, and we work long hours. We do lots and lots of takes, and everyone there is a talent machine. It is a taxing endeavour to say the least, but when you get into a groove, it doesn't matter if you're tired, it doesn't matter if you're sick. You can do it.” IfsLongMatterCan DoHoursTalentMonthsMachinesSickTiredEpisodesYou Can Do ItCastlesEndeavourPumpsGrooveLong Hours Author:Nathan Fillion
“I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.” PeopleWayLongFeelingsVoiceCan DoStudiosPushingGraduatesImpressedYou Can Do ItFlashback Author:Robert Plant
“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
“Don't labor forever over the question of how or if you can do it. Studies have shown that the most successful people make decisions rapidly because they are clear on their values and what they really want for their lives.” PeopleIfsWantValuesCan DoDecisionForeverStudySuccessfulClearLaborSuccessful PeopleYou Can Do ItDecisiveness Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.” LoveHandsCan DoCompassionActivityGardenRoseHolesYou Can Do ItMundaneDiggingLove And CompassionDigging A Hole Author:Rajneesh
“Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.” IfsFeelsLooksLittlesLongHardDoneJobsEasyWaterCan DoWorkLossResultsEffortExcellenceYieldSpellsDucksStrainYou Can Do ItVitalityFatigueWork DoneOutput Author:B. C. Forbes
“When you are lonely or frightened, talk to your guardian angel. You can do it out loud or inside your head, your angel can hear you. Ask your angel to be near you, to put his or her hand on your shoulder, to give you courage and protect you.” GivingHandsAsksCan DoInspiringProtectAngelLonelyShouldersLoudFrightenedYou Can Do ItGuardianProtect YouGuardian Angel Author:Joan Anderson
“Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.” MenNeedsYearsKindMeanPersonsHas BeensSelfFactsWould BeFunCan DoPerfectEatingTrainingHarderHumbleGood ManRepentancePieYou Can Do ItRepentGood PersonConceitSelf WillPerfect PersonHumble PieEating Humble Pie Author:C. S. Lewis
“I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.” IfsThinkingPersonsSaidSpiritStrongCan DoTypeYou Can Do ItRebellious Author:Yoko Ono
“My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic.” WritingDreamFilmSportsCan DoEmotionalProjectsYou Can Do ItBeing Me Author:Jeff Cardoni
“There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.” WantSometimesMightCan DoPleaseProveAnxietyProjectsPassionateStudiosYou Can Do It Author:Justin Lin
“You [ the American President] can print more money, you just print and pay. I mean, it's a bad option, but you can do it.” MeanPresidentCan DoPayPrintMore MoneyYou Can Do ItAmerican President Author:Eric Bolling
“I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a black hole for actors. Now, television has a certain cache. Now everybody wants to be on TV because they're doing adult dramas. If you're an actor, it's like, "Well, get me on television," because it's the only place you can do it and also make a living at it. If my kids need shoes, I better do a TV show because I damn sure don't make any money with independent films.” IfsWantNeedsWellsShowsKidsFilmCertainActorsBlackCan DoTelevisionTvsDramaAdultsIndependentShoesHolesDamnTv ShowsYou Can Do ItIndependent FilmBlack HoleCache Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the piano, but you just sit there at a piano like you're playing, and suddenly all this amazing music comes out and the audience believes you can do it. It's the same with computers. I love scenes where there are people yanking at monitors, "yes I'll put you through now," and you know they're just doing that. But you can look brilliant at all this technology. I love it.” PeopleKnowsFirstsBelieveLooksPlayJobsCan DoTechnologyAudiencePlayerLike YouGeniusSceneComputerTheatreBrilliantSupposed To BePianoYou Can Do ItBelieve You CanAmazing Music Author:Michael Sheen
“There's a lot of money in selling marijuana. If you can do it legally, that's good. Why should all the criminals make the money? This is what people are thinking. If it's happening, if it's going to be legal, let's tax it and regulate it, like we do with everything else and make some money off this. I think that's one reason why people are talking this a little more seriously.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldLittlesReasonCan DoTalkingTaxesHappeningsCriminalsSellingReason WhyMarijuanaLots Of MoneyYou Can Do It Author:Willie Nelson
“From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either.” ThinkingSchoolCan DoYou Can Do ItWipeStarting OverStandpointSchool System Author:Bill Nye
“I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with.” ThinkingWritingIdeasStoriesCan DoTypeDependsHarderIntellectAppealsTiesYou Can Do It Author:Stephen King
“I always like using different muscles, you can take that however you want. But doing something once a year is fantastic, I highly recommended it if you can do it. It's a wonderful thing, it's very freeing and I can put a lot of energy and attention onto it and it's something I love doing.” IfsWantYearsI CanDifferentEnergyCan DoAttentionWonderfulFantasticMusclesYou Can Do ItWonderful Things Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“As you go higher up in the ladder, you look down, and it's a pretty far fall, so you tend to watch your step a bit more. That's all you can do. It's a full time job not to kill these niggas out here; every day I ask for the strength not to go off the handle and whack one of these stupid cunts.” LooksJobsFallAsksBitsCan DoStepsWatchesStupidHigherDown AndHandleYou Can Do ItLaddersFull Time Jobs Author:Gunplay
“We're going to face problems on a day to day basis and there's probably going to be that one obstacle that you think oh I'm not going to be able to get through it but just remember if you set your mind to achieve a goal, then you can do it.” IfsThinkingMindProblemAbleRememberFacesGoalCan DoAchieveBasesObstaclesDay To DayYou Can Do It Author:Patrick Henry Hughes
“You never want to be the worst bowler of the group-because then everyone treats you like you have cancer. "You can do it! We're praying for you." The advice starts. "Use a heavier ball." "Keep your arm straight." "You should get a vasectomy." If you're really bad at bowling like me, they'll ask if want the bumpers up. Not that bowling is that complex anyway. "You want the bumpers? We can get rid of the pins. Why don't you take this coloring book and sit in the corner?"” IfsWantShouldBookUseFunnyAsksCan DoComedyGroupsWorstAdviceLike YouArmsPrayingTreatsBallsComplexesCancerCornersLike MeYou Can Do ItPinsBowlingBumperBowlersPraying For YouVasectomy Author:Jim Gaffigan
“The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.” WritingStoriesCan DoReaderRewardsYou Can Do It Author:Nick Earls
“I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.” IfsThinkingSoundBlackCan DoWhiteImagineColorPeriodsSilentBoundsMediumsFilmmakingBlack And WhiteEnteringYou Can Do ItFlexibleSwitching Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“I'm character-driven. If it's a great character and something different; because I find that a lot of the times you do get pigeon-holed, you do get the same characters over and over again because that's what producers are comfortable with. They've seen you do it, they know you can do it. I'm kind of getting a little stir crazy.” IfsKnowsKindLittlesDifferentCharacterCan DoCrazyComfortableDrivenProducersYou Can Do ItPigeonsGreat CharacterStir Crazy Author:A. J. Cook
“When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.” BelieveCan DoYou Can Do ItCan Do Something Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.” WantShouldSchoolFilmCan DoFiguresShould HaveYou Can Do It Author:John Waters
“I feel like every role that you take there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection and I don't think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsBelieveWellsCan DoPerfectRolesLike YouPerfectionStriveDon't BelieveYou Can Do ItRight Words Author:Mila Kunis
“I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it.” FeelsCan DoRolesLike YouYou Can Do It Author:Mila Kunis
“Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as the exultation of it. You have to do it.” WritingWellsArtIdeasCan DoHellBlindMadSillyCraftsExcitementWithin YouYou Can Do ItSuperbBlind Trust Author:Elizabeth George
“It hurts to imagine stuff. It can give you a headache. Probably doesn't hurt physically, but it hurts mentally. But the more that you can do it, the more you're able to get out of it. Everybody has that capacity, but I don't think everyone develops it.” ThinkingGivingAbleStuffCan DoHurtImagineCapacityIt HurtsYou Can Do ItHurt MeHeadache Author:Stephen King
“If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.” IfsWantLittlesActorsStarsCan DoCommunityActingToughTheaterConnectedYou Can Do ItMovie Star Author:Alan Arkin
“The main thing is to be philanthropic in your everyday life. You don't have to have money to do that. You can do it with your time and your energy.” EnergyCan DoEverydayEveryday LifeYou Can Do ItPhilanthropic Author:Eva Longoria
“So, if you haven't picked up some tips during an apprenticeship like that, you shouldn't be directing. It doesn't mean you can do it, but it loads you up with information.” IfsMeanCan DoHavensInformationLoadYou Can Do ItApprenticeship Author:Colin Firth