The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991), p. 5
“You are what you do.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
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“Do you want to be what you are or do you want to be what continually changes what you are?”
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“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
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.”
Variant: Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

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“If you can't do what you want, do what you can.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Variant: When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.
Source: Miles Errant