“It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.”

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Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 60

“Sometimes you sit around
Don't know what to do,
don't know where you're going to
All you have to be is you
What else can you do”

Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer

"All You Have to Be is You" (11 December 2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbyUCzBJVe4

“It's all right. It doesn't matter what you do. We're dreaming, you know.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“You do have to rise above. If you're true to yourself and you're confident with who you are and you really know where you're coming from, you'll be fine. No matter what anyone says and no matter what anyone tries to do to you.”

Erika Jayne (1969) American singer, actress and television personality

Interview to Cosmopolitan (2016)

“And so, what we've done all of these years is very simple, is use the little tool, which is ask three whys in a row. Because the first why you always have a good answer for. The second why, it starts getting difficult. By the third why, you don't really know why you're doing what you're doing.”

Ricardo Semler (1959) Brazilian businessman

TED: "How to run a company with (almost) no rules" https://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_how_to_run_a_company_with_almost_no_rules/ (October 2014)

“There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it—you don't know what right is and you're not a man.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

We The Living (1936)
Source: We The Living Part One Chapter 6

“As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist

As quoted in Another Door Opens (2006) by Jeffrey A. Wands. p. 29

“Girl, you don't know what you're puttin' through. It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you.”

Tim McGraw (1967) American country singer

It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You
Song lyrics, Southern Voice (2009)

“Don't be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn't do what you do, or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

Quoted by Maya Angelou (quote reproduced in James L. Conyers, Andrew P. Smallwood, Malcolm X: A Historical Reader, Carolina Academic Press, 2008, p. 181 and Elaine Slivinski Lisandrelli, Maya Angelou: More than a poet, Enslow Publishers, 1996, p. 90)
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