Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991), p. 5
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991), p. 5
“Do you want to be what you are or do you want to be what continually changes what you are?”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
2017 Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4fjSrVCDvA <br class="br">Maps of Meaning
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
Sam Harris book Free Will (book)
Free Will
Variant: You can do what you decide to do—but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
“Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.”
Denzel Washington (1954) actor, screenwriter, director, producer
Variant: Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.
Simon Sinek (1973) British/American author and motivational speaker
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
“If you can't do what you want, do what you can.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Variant: When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.
Source: Miles Errant