Do You Know Quotes

• Being willing is not enough. We must do.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

  T. S. Eliot

  Adversity, Hard Times, Tough Times

  " Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate" by David Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

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• Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

  Rosalind Russell

  Movie, Giving, Theatre

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• Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

  Wilfred Owen

  Together, Language, Holding On

  Wilfred Owen, Douglas Kerr (1994). “The Poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.

  Flann O'Brien

  Mean, Men, Hands

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• How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds or savings accounts? Income property is the most historically proven asset class in America, if not the entire world. I rest my case.

  Jason Hartman

  Class, America, Income

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• Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.

  Louis Armstrong

  Dream, Heart, Mean

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• Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.

  Carolina Herrera

  Inspirational, Elegance, Knows

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• Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Change, Selfish

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.20, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

  Johan Huizinga

  Sunday, America, Pages

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• Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

  Ellen Glasgow

  Friendship, Dog, Men

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.26, University of Virginia Press

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• Do you know what's one mistake we always make? Believing that life's immutable, that once you get on a particular track you have to follow it to the end of the line. But it appears that fate has more imagination than we do. Just when you think you're in a situation you can't escape from, when you've reached the lowest depths of total desperation, everything changes as fast as a gust of wind, everything's overturned; from one second to the next you find you're living a new life.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Life, Mistake, Believe

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• Do you know that all of the money that we are spending, that the government is spending, must come from you? The government has no great pile of gold to which it can go to get what it gives you. The government has not one cent that it does not take from your pockets. Do not imagine, do not believe, do not go on the theory that you are not to pay this bill, unless the fundamentals of our government are to be overturned.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Believe, Government, Giving

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• Do you know what investing for the long run but listening to market news everyday is like? It's like a man walking up a big hill with a yo-yo and keeping his eyes fixed on the yo-yo instead of the hill.

  Alan Abelson

  Running, Eye, Men

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• Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

  Langston Hughes

  Country, Book, Color

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• The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?

  Laini Taylor

  Audacity, Knows

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• Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

  Robert Frost

  Sometimes, Wonder, Poet

  1923 'New Hampshire'.

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• What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

  Jane Austen

  Life, Heart, Suffering

  "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", 1995.

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• Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Brother, Caring, Magic

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.144, Parkstone International

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• London is one of the few cities where people still dress properly and fashion exists. Every day I see women who've thought about their outfits. They've picked out the bag, put on proper shoes. ... Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Cities, Shoes

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• Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

  Vivian Stanshall

  Letting Go, Said, Let Me

  "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Comedy recording by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.

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• Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!

  Esther Hicks

  Philosophy, Medicine, Giving

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• Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Mean, Evil

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