Rory Stewart Quotes

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

What one has to do usually can be done.

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.

What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now.

If you can jump, you can jump.

If you have two hands or 30 hands, show me what you can do, and we'll go from there.

To do something is in every man's power.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.

I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

I think the most important thing for us to make judgments about is what can we really do? What can we achieve?

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.

We could do it, you know.

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.

You can do anything you want, as long as it works.

Anything feasible and potentially effective should be explored.

Ability is active power, or power to perform.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.

Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more.

To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.

No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.

When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen