“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”

“One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.”

Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist

“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”

Elena Ferrante (1943) Italian writer

“One does what one is; one becomes what one does.”

Robert Musil (1880–1942) Austrian writer

“It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.”

Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist

“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

“What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

“The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.”

Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer