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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
Horace

Wrong, Pride, Between

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke

Good, Done, Through

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Mignon McLaughlin

Today, Done, Wish

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Butler

Justice, Whatever, Injustice

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'
Jack White

Today, Creative, Kids

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
Neil Gaiman

Time, Bored, Between

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
Alan Watts

Everything, Done, Knowing

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
Kin Hubbard

Busy, Nothing, Seem

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Chuck Palahniuk

Best, Happen, Free

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
Amelia Earhart

Someone, Done, Said

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty, Fun, Yourself

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty, Through, Find

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Alvin Toffler

Small, Big, While

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Kim Kardashian

Work, Home, Fitness

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
Brian Tracy

Moving, Away, Goals

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.
Harvey Fierstein

Time, Everything, Movie

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Love, Same

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
Harvey Fierstein

Failure, Character, Made

I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
Pedro Martinez

Health, God, Everything

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James A. Baldwin

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Sophocles

Good, Deeds, Task

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Mistakes, Making

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Art, Knowledge, Greatest

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.
Masaharu Morimoto

Mind, Soul, Fighting

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel Johnson

Good, Money, Giving

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Mick Jagger

Worth, Overdoing

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
John Ruskin

Time, Great, Resolutely

Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.
Evelyn Glennie

Enjoy, Moment, Holidays

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

Life, Great, Cannot

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