“You cannot write if you do not read,” the blind man said. “You cannot eat if you do not chew. And you cannot play if you do not”—he grabbed for the boy’s hand—“listen.”
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
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“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Context: You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“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.
“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”
“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
“You cannot change what you do not acknowledge.”
