“There's so many people in the music business or even in general who will tell you that you can't do this or that just because you haven't already had success but I feel like anyone can do anything they put their mind to as long as they stay devoted and stay passionate.” PeopleFeelsMindLongCan DoHavensPassionateDevotedMusic Business Author:Jeremy Davis
“To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.” FactsTruthLyingCan DoPartyHavensLateClaimsHarm Book:Collected Poems 1943-2004 Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
“For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.” Has BeensWantedPoliticalDesirePoliticsStrongCan DoEffortGroupsModernTalentHavensLimitsStructureOperationsComplexityModern LifeGroup Effort Author:Clay Shirky
“As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.” PeopleWayDoneOpportunityCan DoMy OwnShareHavensDirectorsCreatingAdmireFilmmakerCan Do Something Author:Mark Webber
“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
“Doing a film with your friend is probably the best way to end that friendship but we worked together really well. We just have that thing. Chemistry is something that... I just think it is the last thing in Hollywood, the last magical thing they haven't computerised. There's nothing you can do about it - it's either there or it's not and it doesn't matter if you're friends or not. It was just a bonus that we were.” IfsThinkingWayWellsEndsMatterTogetherLastsFilmCan DoHavensHollywoodBest WayChemistryBonus Author:Ryan Reynolds
“If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs. Life is both subtler and more complex than some of us like to believe. So if you haven't done so already, review your beliefs and decide which ones you might change now and what you would change those beliefs to.” IfsBelieveDoneMightLife IsBeliefCausesCan DoImpossibleOne ThingHavensComplexesReviewsRethinking Book:Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
“People really don't care, in some ways, that you have a family. With a high profile job like I have, they just want you to win basketball games. You can do that and still keep your family together. I try the best I can to be at the basketball practices or tennis practices or recitals. In my first year at Dallas my (then 11-year old) son Avery Jr., said, "You know daddy, you're still the best coach in the NBA." I was like, "But I haven't won a playoff game yet." And he said, "That's okay. You're still my daddy." That makes you feel good.” PeopleKnowsWayWantFeelsTryingYearsFirstsSaidStillsI CanCareTogetherJobsGamesWinningCan DoPracticeHavensSonBasketballOkayDon't CareCoachesFeel GoodOur FamilyTennisNbaDaddyProfileDallasPlayoffsMake You Feel GoodBasketball GameHigh ProfileFamily TogetherBest CoachesRecitalsPlayoff Games Author:Avery Johnson
“With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.” DoneFilmActorsCan DoWrittenHavens Author:Rob Reiner
“Sometimes the guys who run the visual effects shop will bury it in and not tell us. We'll be in the middle of the edit, watching it for the fifth or sixth time, and we'll be like, "What's that big W on that building? I don't think we can do that. We haven't asked DC." And then, they take it out.” ThinkingSometimesBigsRunningGuyCan DoMiddleEffectsHavensBuildingVisualsShopsFifthEditsVisual Effects Author:Greg Berlanti
“Whenever we do voter registration, we ask, 'Why haven't you voted before?' The response is often, 'No one's asked us.' It's not about telling people what to do - it's about sharing what they can do.” PeopleAsksCan DoHavensResponseVotersRegistrationVoter Registration Author:Rosario Dawson
“Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that's all that you can do and it's hard to get people to take a risk on you.” PeopleThinkingHardCharacterCan DoRiskHavensHollywoodBoxes Author:Aubrey Plaza
“What we can do is make sure that Afghanistan is not a safe haven for Al Qaeda. What we can do it make sure that it is not destabilizing neighboring Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons. The key is we’ve got to have a clear objective...” Can DoClearHavensKeysSafeWeaponsNuclearObjectivesAlsAfghanistanNuclear WeaponsPakistanSafe Haven Author:Barack Obama
“I just couldn't believe that it [Into the Forest script] had fallen into my lap, because I felt so incredibly connected to my character, and I understood her, and I really...I haven't had that feeling about a script since I had read Thirteen or The Wrestler when I was just like, "No one else can do this." I just feel so passionate about it.” FeelsBelieveCharacterFeelingsFeltCan DoHavensUnderstoodScriptsPassionateConnectedForestsFallenLapThirteenWrestler Author:Evan Rachel Wood