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Henry James Quotes about Waiting

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If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

Henry James
Waiting, Feels, Ifs
Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.280, Delphi Classics

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

Henry James
Waiting, Different, Might

The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short - he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.

Henry James
Fear, Waiting, Risk

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