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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
- John Wooden
Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is not to act when action is needed.
- John Wooden
Be quick - but don't hurry.
- John Wooden
Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his life more true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow-man sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and Heaven securely.
- John Wooden
The smallest good dead is better than the best intention
- John Wooden
The only way we have of influencing the future is to own the present, however we find it.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Non-doing can arise within action as well as in stillness. The inward stillness of the doer merges with the outward activity to such an extent that the action does itself. Effortless activity. Nothing is forced. There is no exertion of the will, no small-minded "I," "me," or "mine" to lay claim to a result, yet nothing is left undone. Non-doing is a cornerstone of mastery in any realm of activity.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Before you ask God to bless you, give Him a reason to.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Faith is verification by the heart confession by the tongue action by the limbs.
- Anonymous
My father said, 'When in doubt, castle.'
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
- Michelle Obama