“Don’t listen to what people say; watch what they do.”
Steven D. Levitt book Think Like a Freak
Source: Think Like a Freak
“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”
Attributed in Teaching Music Through Performance In Band, Vol. 3 (2000), edited by Richard B. Miles, Larry Blocher, Eugene Corporon, p. 13
2000s
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