Doing Quotes (page 183)

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• house
• frustration
• waste

It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future... Edith Schaeffer

• saying
• says
• restrictions

If you say "can't" you're restricting what you can do or ever will do. Michael Phelps

• tree
• one day
• she

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter. Lewis Carroll

• impressive
• magic
• power

Could anyone among us have an inkling or a clue What magic feats or wizardry and voodoo you can do? And who would ever guess what powers you possess And who would not be stunned to see you prove There's more to us than surgeons can remove So much more than we ever knew So much more were we born to do Should you draw back the curtain, this I am certain You'll be impressed with you Alan Jay Lerner

• doings
• liked
• you

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do. Stephen Sondheim

• time
• head
• wrongly

I was doing the wrong of never wanting or trying to better. And now I see that I have been letting things go as the would for a long time. Whatever came into my head I did and whatever didn’t come into my head I didn’t do. George MacDonald

• believe
• nature
• colorful

I don't even know what my natural color is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables Donatella Versace

• life
• problem
• maybe

Maybe I will do what I want with my life! The only problem is that I have no idea what I want to do with it. Orson Scott Card

• money
• may
• good

I do not pretend to give such a sum; I only lend it to you. When you shall return to your country with a good character, you cannot fail of getting into some business, that will in time enable you to pay all your debts. In that case, when you meet with another honest man in similar distress, you must pay me by lending this sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with such another opportunity. I hope it may thus go through many... Benjamin Franklin

• knowing
• doings
• going

clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. Joel: I know Clementine: What do we do? Joel: Enjoy it. Charlie Kaufman

• deep
• deep meaning
• means

Talent just defines what you do...It doesn't define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything Terry Prachett

• wishes
• womanizer
• sensing

I do wish Slumtrimpet could do something about undermining that young woman's sense of the ridiculous. C. S. Lewis

• learning
• willfulness
• employed

unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us Charles Dickens

• alone
• stand alone
• manly

My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone. ...The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone. Carson McCullers

• wishes
• promise
• mostly

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do. Georgette Heyer