Source: Canada
“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.”
“It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.”
Persuasion (1817)
Works, Persuasion
“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.
You're Only Human (Second Wind).
Song lyrics, Greatest Hits - Volume I & Volume II (1985)
My Day (1935–1962)
Context: The film industry is a great industry with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies. In a democratic country I do not think the public will tolerate a removal of its right to decide what it thinks of the ideas and performances of those who make the movie industry work. (29 October 1947)
