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A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
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Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house
with the conscious design of doing me good,
I should run for my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Doing well is the result of doing good.
That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
A inspired life lives not in the DOing, but in the BEing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.
If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lot
of worry and regret by choosing to permanently
erase it from your to-do list.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Creativity is the quality that you bring
to the activity that you are doing.
It is an attitude, an inner approach -
how you look at things.
- Osho
Truth is always in harmony with herself,
and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice
that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
If we knew what it was we were doing,
it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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