"If I could have done anything more, it would have been less"
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"I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it."
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"The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down."
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"When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again."
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"It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control."
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"You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?"
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"There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible."
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"Grace is that thing that shows up to guide you when you've done the first two steps and you're intent on doing something larger than just yourself. That's when all of the sudden things are great."
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"We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done."
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"If they would have put positive opportunities in front of me to make $1000 a week, I would have done it. But they didn't. They put $1000 in front of me and an illegal way to make it. And they expect me not to do it because they say it's wrong."
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"There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own."
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"I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years."
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"It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing."
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"Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other."
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"Focusing on one thing without interruption is how you get meaningful work done."
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"I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past."
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"The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done."
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"I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly."
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"I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely."
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"Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing."
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