Things To Do Quotes - Page 36

• If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

  John le Carre

  Laughing, World, Ifs

  "John le Carré, The Art of Fiction No. 149". Interview with George Plimpton, www.theparisreview.org. 1997.

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• Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.

  David Allen

  Stress, Thinking, Two

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• In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see and scrambled eggs to eat. Life is essentially trivial. You either decide you will take the trite business of life and give yourself the option of doing something really cool, or you decide you will opt for the Grand Epic of eating disorders and dedicate your life to being seriously trivial.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Book, Writing, Epic

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• I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Thinking, Forever

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• Really, The smart thing to do was to stop dating and get a cat.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Smart, Cat, Dating

  Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Faking It”, p.420, Macmillan

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• Jesse, who had not stirred the whole time from the spot he'd been standing, confident I could handle Cheryl myself, was grinning. "It's every girl's dream to guy to go to prom with the guy she loves?" he echoed, not just one, but both inky black eyebrows raised. "Don't start with me," I said. I tried to hide my suddenly flaming cheeks by scraping away what was left of the cannolis, and replacing them with the contents of an upended bag of chocolate chip cookies. "I have things to do.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Dream, Eyebrows

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• Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do

  David Klass

  Lonely, Fighting, Goes On

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.216, Macmillan

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• Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Courage, Fear

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.224, Penguin

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• lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual. If you wanna grow up, which most people don’t, the thing to do is take responsibility for your own reality and deal with it on your own terms. Don’t expect that because you pay some money to somebody else or take a pledge or join a club or run down the street or wear a special bunch of clothes or play a certain sport or even drink Perrier water, it’s going to take care of everything for you.

  Frank Zappa

  Sports, Running, Growing Up

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui magazine, April, 1979.

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• I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously

  Rick Riordan

  War, Tea, Annabeth

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• The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.

  Joss Whedon

  World, Lessons, Firsts

  "Fictional character: Wesley Wyndam-Pryce". Angel (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1999–2004.

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• It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.

  Jack Kerouac

  Best Things, Hard

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “Big Sur”, p.24, Penguin

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• There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

  Jack Kerouac

  Travel

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• He’s being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven,” Thomas said. “I figured he couldn’t jigger his way out of a bunch of steel, and it would give him something to think about before we start asking questions.” “That’s an awful thing to do to one of the Little Folk, man,” I said. “I’m planning to start making a pie in front of him.” “Nice.” “Thank you.

  Jim Butcher

  Nice, Men, Thinking

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• When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

  Paul Newman

  Right Thing

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• Impulsively, she leaned across the truck and kissed him on the cheek. He glanced over in surprise when she pulled away, but pleasure glowed in his eyes. "What was that for?" "Just seemed like the thing to do," she said. "Well, feel free to do it more often," he encouraged. "I assure you I won't mind.

  Maya Banks

  Eye, Mind, Surprise

  Maya Banks (2012). “Shades of Gray: A KGI Novel”, p.116, Penguin

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• To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Decisions You Make, Two

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.277, A&C Black

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• I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what he means, because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can't do it forever, and you don't want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, People, Forever

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• A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

  Daniel Handler

  Sitting, Eating, Good Things

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• There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Opportunity, Perfect, Leader

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.44, Knopf

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• I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up. Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.

  David Gerrold

  Kindness, Philosophy, Commitment

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• Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

  Meg Rosoff

  Fall, Emotional, Blood

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• The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself

  Daniel Keyes

  Children, Book, People

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

  A. A. Milne

  Clever, Silly, Book

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.101, Egmont UK

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• Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Worry, Way

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