“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
“Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.” Can DoResultsKnowingSomething NewNot KnowingLack Of Confidence Author:Dale Carnegie
“... the major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters mediocrity. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.” LyingBeliefCan DoKnowingMajorsExcellenceMediocrityBelief Systems Author:M. J. Ryan
“Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.” KnowsWorldPersonsCareTodayNextWaterCan DoKnowingAirAdvantageCompetitive AdvantageKnowing More Author:Tony Wagner
“I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)” IfsMenBelieveWellsCan DoLinesKnowingPhotographyPhotographSquaresInchesBelieve In MeSculptureAcid Author:John Ruskin
“I am the luckiest girl in the world. I learned that if I just keep a positive mental attitude, that I can go out there and do whatever I hope I can do. It's all mental in getting out there, and having confidence in myself, and having strength and knowing I can do it.” IfsWorldI CanGirlCan DoAttitudeKnowingI Can Do ItMental AttitudePositive Mental AttitudeHaving StrengthLuckiest GirlLuckiest Girl In The World Author:Missy Franklin
“I really believe in having projects which in fact can't be carried out, or which are so simple that anyone could work them out. I once made four spots on the map of Holland, without knowing where they were. Then I found out how to get there and went to the place and took a snapshot. Quite stupid. Anybody can do that.” BelieveMadeFactsFoundCan DoSimpleKnowingFourStupidProjectsSpotsMapsHollandSnapshots Author:Jan Dibbets
“I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.” PeopleIfsThinkingSelfJobsUsedActorsCan DoKnowingFrontsSpeechConsciousAskingCamerasNervesFuneralSelf ConsciousEulogy Author:Eddie Marsan
“I think at the end of the day you can do both: make money and stay true to yourself. But a lot of young people look for that fame that some of these huge artists that they see on TV have, not knowing they can do what some of these underground artist are doing which is not selling their souls for a buck.” PeopleThinkingLooksSoulEndsYoungArtistCan DoKnowingTvsHugeFameSellingMaking MoneyThe End Of The DayNot KnowingBucksTrue To YourselfStay TrueStay True To Yourself Author:Rahki
“I came to the country [U.S] without speaking a word of English, without a penny, worked full time, 40 hours a week, went to school full time, opened my own small business, ended up being a multi-millionaire. If I can do it, without even knowing the language, anybody can do it. All it takes is determination, perseverance, and like Winston Churchill said: 'Never, never, never, never give up.'"” IfsGivingSaidI CanCountrySchoolLanguageCan DoHoursMy OwnKnowingWeekGiving UpDeterminationPerseveranceSmall BusinessNever Giving UpMillionairePenniesI Can Do ItDetermination Perseverance Author:Rafael Cruz
“I grew up going around with family, camping and living in a very beautiful mountain valley, knowing the names of the mountains and the rivers. I think it's no accident that I ended up studying the geography of India and knowing the names of the mountains and the rivers and all of that. I loved it. I think it gives a sense of space and a can-do-ness that was very powerful.” ThinkingGivingBeautifulNamesCan DoSpacePowerfulKnowingStudyGrewMountainGrew UpRiversIndiaAccidentsValleysGeographyVery PowerfulVery BeautifulCamping Author:Diana L. Eck
“What if there's another terrorist attack? I cringe at the ideas of our enemies watching this, knowing much like the president we have now. You can do anything you want, you can jerk us around, you can harass our naval ships the way Iran is doing right now, and we're not going to do anything. We're not going to react.” IfsWayWantIdeasPresidentCan DoEnemyKnowingRight NowTerroristShipsIranWhat IfJerkTerrorist AttacksNavalDoing RightCringe Author:John McCain