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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.
It's as simple as that.  A lot of people have ideas, but there are few
who decide to do something about them now.  Not tomorrow. Not
next week.  But today.  The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Nolan Bushnell

Leonardo da Vinci

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is in the end,
of little consequence.  The only thing of consequence is what we do.

John Ruskin

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty
and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid
to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run
can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is somehow to begin.

Henry Moore

To obtain happiness in another world we need only to believe something;
to secure it in this world, we must do something.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Say well is good, but do well is better;
Do well seems the spirit, say well the letter;
Say well is Godly and helps to please,
But do well is Godly and gives the world ease.

author unknown

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding
and that which is lost by not trying.

Francis Bacon

My view is that to sit back and let fate play its hand out and never
influence it is not the way people were meant to operate.

John Glenn

A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate
the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider
whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong--
acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

Plato

Life is to be lived. “If you have to support yourself,
you had bloody well better find some way that is going
to be interesting. And you don’t do that
by sitting around wondering about yourself.”

Katherine Hepburn

Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the
small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue;
plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.
The most difficult things in the world must be done while they are easy;
the greatest things in the world must be done while they are small.

Lao-tzu