"Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first."

-- Ken Blanchard

#Doe Quotes #Done Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.”
“Eat where the people eat, not the hotels and touristy restaurants. If a local teacher makes $50 a month and they're living decently, see what they do.”
“Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.”
“Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth (1894). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”
“Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where itâ€”sheâ€”is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?”
“I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.”
“The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it.”
“The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the temptation, yield to it almost unconsciously and become the tools of toadies and flatterers. "Authorities," "disciples," and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies.”

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