"40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D."
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""Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them."
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"Why should we... constantly worry ourselves... as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?"
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"As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything."
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"How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation."
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"Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now."
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"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."
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"In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs."
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"Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost."
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"The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it."
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"I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway."
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"Today, there is no excuse for any one of us to sit back and go, "Ugh! There's nothing I can do about it."Because there is always something that can be done."
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"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."
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"Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness."
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"Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone."
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"If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done."
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"Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through."
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"I believe that if we stop talking at one another and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done."
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"Never stop fighting till the fight is done."
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"It is done to you as you believe."
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