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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

—Henry Ford

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You have to make it happen.

—Denis Diderot

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Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

—H.H. Williams

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The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

—Amelia Earhart

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The more things you do, the more you can do.

—Lucille Ball

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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

—Christopher Morley

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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

—Will Rogers

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Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

—Jennifer Donnelly in The Wild Rose

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Envy is a con man, a tugger at your sleeve, a knocker at your door. Let me in for just a moment, it says, for just one moment of your time. . . . The antidote to envy is one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself. It drives the spooks away.

—Bonita Freedman

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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

—Samuel Johnson

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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

—John Ruskin

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Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

—Floyd Dell

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

—Jack London in White Fang

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