Quotes about doing page 65
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: United We Spy
“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“I knew that now—that love wasn’t something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: We'll Always Have Summer
Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens: Simple Ways to Keep Your Cool in Stressful Times
“I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 63, “Walking and Talking” (p. 468)
“Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”
Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising
A saying in Maule, Tear
The Shadow Rising (15 September 1992)
“I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
“Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!”
Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer
Source: Boys "R" Us
“Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?”
Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist
Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
Jennifer McMahon (1968) American writer
Source: Don't Breathe a Word
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Variant: well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Source: My Sister's Keeper
Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
George Eliot book Middlemarch
Middlemarch (1871)
Context: What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.
“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…
Source: The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them
“Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?”
Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory
Source: My Name Is Memory
Curtis Sittenfeld book Prep
Source: Prep
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934) Hungarian American psychologist
Source: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Insofern sich die Sätze der Mathematik auf die Wirklichkeit beziehen, sind sie nicht sicher, und insofern sie sicher sind, beziehen sie sich nicht auf die Wirklichkeit. http://books.google.com/books?id=QF0ON71WuxEC&q=%22Insofern+sich+die+S%C3%A4tze+der+Mathematik+auf+die%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage<br><br>Geometrie and Erfahrung (1921) pp. 3-4 link.springer.com http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-49903-6_1#page-1 as cited by Karl Popper, The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge (2014) Tr. Andreas Pickel, Ed. Troels Eggers Hansen.<br>Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Albert Einstein / Quotes / 1920s<br><br>http://books.google.com/books?id=QF0ON71WuxEC&q=%22beziehen+sind+sie+nicht+sicher+und+insofern+sie+sicher+sind+beziehen+sie+sich+nicht+auf+die+Wirklichkeit%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage <br class="br">1920s, Sidelights on Relativity (1922)
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Variant: Mr.Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.
“If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.”
Norman Douglas (1868–1952) British writer
Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer
Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?
“I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.”
Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End
Source: Then We Came to the End
Lora Leigh (1965) American writer
Source: Broken Wings
Sebastian Junger (1962) American author, journalist and documentarian
Source: The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
As quoted in If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? (2009) by John Mitchinson, p. 87
“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”
Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker
“Our challenges don't define us, our actions do.”
Michael J. Fox (1961) Canadian-American actor
Variant: Our challenges don't define us, our actions do
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Xunzi in the Xunzi (book)
Misattributed, Chinese
“Things to do today:
1) Breathe in.
2) Breathe out.”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“Slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.”
Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily
Source: The Golden Lily
“Anything you do fully is an alone journey.”
Natalie Goldberg (1948) American writer
Variant: Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
Source: Writing Down the Bones
“Our chief want in life, is somebody who shall make us do what we can.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)
“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
Jane Austen book Love and Freindship
Source: Love and Friendship
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Variant: Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Source: Margaret Thatcher
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
On himself and his contemporaries.
Paris Review interview (1958)
“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,
What can I do to kill it and be free?”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
“When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.”
Carter G. Woodson book The Mis-Education of the Negro
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Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)
Context: When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his "proper place" and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.
The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples. The Negro thus educated is a hopeless liability of the race.
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer from Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (1989)
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987), The Sentence
Context: Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again—
Unless... Summer's ardent rustling
Is like a festival outside my window.
