“What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.”
Italy, p. 184
Vokes - My Story (1985)
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Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Managing Teams in a Week (2013) https://books.google.ae/books?idqZjO9_ov74EC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIIDAB#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Secrets of Success at Work – 50 techniques to excel (2014) https://books.google.ae/books?id4S7vAgAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIJjAC#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, p.89
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Fare ogni giorno ciò che vi piace vi farà sentire molto soddisfatti. E l'unico modo per fare bene ciò che vi piace sarà amare ciò che fate.
Source: prevale.net
“Always do everything you ask of those you command.”
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
As quoted in I Remember General Patton's Principles (1984) by Porter B. Williamson, p. 174
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: Let Me be a Woman
“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
Scott Westerfeld book Uglies
Variant: Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
Source: Uglies
“By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?”
Alesha Dixon (1978) English singer, dancer, rapper, model and television presenter
Alesha Dixon cited in Dixon tipped for Strictly success http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7156420.stm at bbc.co.uk, 22 December, 2007: Referring bookmakers favourite to win BBC One's ballroom show Strictly Come Dancing.
“So what are you afraid of? What is holding you back? What is it that stands in your way? Do it!”
Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer
Power Of The Plus Factor (1987)
“Give what you command, and command what you will. You impose continency on us.”
Da quod iubes, et iube quod vis. Imperas nobis … continentiam.
Aurelius Augustinus book Confessions
X, 29
Confessions (c. 397)