“There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”
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Henry Ford80
American industrialist 1863–1947Related quotes
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Included in Portrait-Life of Lincoln (1910) by Francis T Miller
Posthumous attributions
Walker Percy (1916–1990) Southern philosophical novelist
Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Book III, Ode 29, lines 65–68.
Imitation of Horace (1685)
“A writer who knows what he is doing isn't doing very much.”
Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer
"he once said", quoted by Richard Flanagan, 2005. (Also quoted as: "Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.")
Nonfiction works
Sterling Hayden (1916–1986) American actor
Book V : Abysmal Voyage, Ch. 79
Wanderer (1963)
Context: I'll make no bones about it, I'm thinking of quitting analysis. When a man's bogged down, when the thing he is trying to do isn't working out, then he has to damn good and well change his way of living. If you would only hold out some hope to me, then it might be different.
I'll say this, too, that if it hadn't been for you I wouldn’t have turned into a stoolie for J. Edgar Hoover. I don't think you have the foggiest notion of the contempt I have had for myself since the day I did that thing.
Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), License to Kill
