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Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I feel impelled to speak today in a language
that in a sense is new-one which I,
who have spent so much of my life in the military profession,
would have preferred never to use.
That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
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
If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
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
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
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
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)
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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
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]
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
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
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
Whenever a man or women is truly inspired,
it is because the same One Universal Spirit
is doing the inspiring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
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
Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Doing well is the result of doing good.
That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
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
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
A inspired life lives not in the DOing, but in the BEing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
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
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
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
If we knew what it was we were doing,
it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
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
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
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Always question WHY you are doing something.
Is it a free-will gift or an obligation?
That which is done out of a feeling of obligation
is unworkable as a substitute for a gift.
Obligation creates a feeling of resentment on your part,
and evokes resentment rather than gratitude
on the part of the recipient.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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