Doing - Quotes
You don`t choose your best friend because they have a cute nose, but that`s all you`re doing when you get married; you`re saying, 'I will spend the rest of my life with
you because of your lower lip'.
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.
Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Good things do not return in a one-for-one manner. Individual actions are not directly rewarded. It is only on average that doing good improves the quality of life for you and the people around you.
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
When you sell your time, you are giving up your right to decide what's worth doing.