“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
Philip Pullman book Northern Lights
Source: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 18 : Fog and Ice
“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
Philip Pullman book Northern Lights
Source: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 18 : Fog and Ice
“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.”
Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author
“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
“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“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.
Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Variant: Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
“You do not notice changes in what is always before you.”
Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
Mes Apprentissages (1936)