Do It Yourself Quotes - Page 2

• If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself.

  Andrew Saul

  Oil, Gold, Want

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Cutting, Universe

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.522, Baen Books

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• If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fire, Hands, Water

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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  Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• You can always get someone to love you - even if you have to do it yourself.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Love You, Self Love, Ifs

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• Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

  Lena Dunham

  Mean, Waiting, Directors

  "Lena Dunham’s Feminist Week: From SNL to SXSW" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. March 11, 2014.

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• Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.

  Denis Waitley

  Life Is, Projects

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• My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

  Johnny Depp

  Tattoo, Self Harm, Artist

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• You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.

  E. W. Howe

  Wells

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• Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.

  Wheeler McMillen

  Education, Teaching, School

  Wheeler McMillen (1964). “Possums, politicians and people”

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• Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.

  Amy Poehler

  Love Is, People, Way

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.89, Pan Macmillan

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• The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Philosophy, Technology, Laughing

  Google Groups post (linux.dev.kernel newsgroup), groups.google.com. October 16, 1996.

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• My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.

  Kyrsten Sinema

  Hard Work, People, Parent

  "America's Most Colorful Congresswoman: Kyrsten Sinema" by Ann Friedman, www.elle.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself.

  Rapsody

  Men, Blame, Misfortunes

  "Dark Knights". Song by Rapsody, 2013.

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• Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

  John Lennon

  Dream, Jesus, Parking Meters

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.

  Dominic Cooper

  Guy, Looks, Stuff

  "Dominic Cooper Talks the Scope of the Film, Finding the Tone, Returning for Captain America 2, and More on the Set of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 13, 2012.

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• This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Thinking, Tests, Faults

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• When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Done, Want

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• My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four- foot putt.You have to go do it yourself.

  Tiger Woods

  Dad, Writing, Feet

  2001 Quotable Tiger.

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• The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

  Michael Stipe

  Kids, Ethics, Punk

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• One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Mother, Children, Yesterday

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

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• The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.

  William Greider

  Pension, Versions

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• Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

  Seamus Heaney

  Fire, Political, Ireland And The Irish

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• My best film is always my next film. I couldn't make Chungking Express now, because of the way I live and drink I've forgotten how I did it. I don't believe in film school or film theory. Just try and get in there and make the bloody film, do good work and be with people you love.

  Christopher Doyle

  Movie, Work, Drinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Lying, Sleep

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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