307 Quotes About Doing

Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.

Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.

No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality.

Falling has become far more terrifying to me than rising.

You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint of business attire is one of wide-eyed wonder from the nursery door.

She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

What's the pleasure?' I asked.'Planning, I guess. I don't know. Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.