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“We can't do a list of 20 things. You can't do 20 things in parallel. Do one of them. Do the next.”
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British computer scientist 1950–2019Related quotes
“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”
“If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”
“We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.”
Source: Three Men in a Boat
“i am always doing things i can't do. that's how i get to do them.”
                                        
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“Don't let things you can't do stop you from doing things you can.”
As quoted in Corporate Survival: The Critical Importance of Sustainability Risk Management (2005) by Dan Robert Anderson, p. 138
“I only want the government to do the things that you can't do without the government.”
                                        
                                        Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 328 
1950s, Television interview with Mike Wallace (1960)