“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.”
Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
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Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Non fare mai ciò che dice la gente, fai sempre ciò che dice la tua mente.
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“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist
Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess
Variant: She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.
Source: A Little Princess
Edwin Lefèvre book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter IV, p. 51
“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.”
René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
Katharine Whitehorn (1928) British writer
<span title="New York Public Library card required, can be requested online at http://nypl.org">"The Ten-Hour Week is Here to Stay,"</span> http://search.proquest.com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/hnpguardianobserver/docview/476248113/fulltextPDF/2EA0FBE19E60470DPQ/1 from The Observer (London, January 19, 1975 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/guardian/doc/476248113.html)
Edward G. Robinson (1893–1973) Romanian American actor
Source: Edward G. Robinson | IMDB biography http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000064/bio