"We know what needs to be done - all that is missing is the will to do it."
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"I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism."
"One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons."
"Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic."
"The thing is to get the work done."
"As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?"
"I'm not usually a follower of trends - I like to set them a lot more. I don't like things that people have done already, then it's no fun for me to do it."
"Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way I am achieving my dreams."
"The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives."
"Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done."
"Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done."
"Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done"
"But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive."
"When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind."
"A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions."
"I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence 'til something clicks and I feel a right answer."
"You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didnt. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I thinkI done the best with itI knew how but itstill wasntmine. It neverhas been."
"I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die - and I go on, non-stop, going forward with life. Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life."
"If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart."
"He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him."