Doe Quotes - Page 123

Everything in life and business, you only earn more if you become more valuable. Because if you can do more for people than anybody else does, you can prosper. But you can't do that unless you're constantly educating yourself with the cutting edge. My whole life, even when I had no money, I would invest in education.

Things are only impossible until somebody does what another believes can't be done.

Just because you're good at something, does that mean you're born to do it?

We need to treat each other with consideration. In my world, the squeaky wheel does not get the grease.

The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?

Violence does even justice unjustly.

The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.

What a person does is what he IS, not what he says.

The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

When deciding what to do next, we can always ask: Does this thought, emotion, or behavior bring me closer to or take me further away from my center?

I'm not a fan of the facts. Facts change; my opinion never does.

I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

True repentance does not permit repetition.

Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent poverty, even though poverty exists all over the country, and exists as much in urban areas as it does in rural, if not more.