"You may think I'm doing this without taking the time to really think it through, and you're absolutely right. It would take me the rest of my life to think this thing through. But it's while you're thinking, while you're weighing the pros and cons, that life goes on. It passes by you while you're doing nothing. - Arthur"

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Source : Marc Levy (2005). “If Only It Were True”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

Marc Levy

#Thinking Quotes #Doing Nothing Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.”
“The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.”
“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.”
“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action ...”

Source : Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”
“Sometimes if you wait too long, it's too late.”

Source : Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “The Sleeping Beauty Proposal”, p.214, Penguin
“Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.”
“You know how it is when youâ€™re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think thereâ€™s one more step? Iâ€™m like that all the time.”
“The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.”

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