"Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly."

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Source : Twitter post from Mar 26, 2015

Alain de Botton

#Doing Nothing Quotes

“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.”
“I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.”
“When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.”
“I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan. I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them. There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.”
“We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.”
“Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.”
“I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.”
“It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures you will be glad to have.”

Source : Source: theonlinephotographer.typepad.com

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