Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house
with the conscious design of doing me good,
I should run for my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Doing well is the result of doing good.
That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People make a big fuss over you when you're President.
But I'm very serious about doing everything I can
to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
- Jimmy Carter
A inspired life lives not in the DOing, but in the BEing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we knew what it was we were doing,
it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
Whenever a man or women is truly inspired,
it is because the same One Universal Spirit
is doing the inspiring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Creativity is the quality that you bring
to the activity that you are doing.
It is an attitude, an inner approach -
how you look at things.
- Osho
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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