Doers Quotes - Page 8

• All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.

  Lysander Spooner

  Party, Character, Fire

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.242, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• There's a scripture in the Book of James which says, 'Become a doer of the word and not a hearer only.' A hearer is someone who looks into a mirror, walks away, and quickly forgets what sort of person he is.

  Terrence Howard

  Book, Mirrors, Looks

  Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Learners are doers, not recipients.

  Walter J. Ong

  Learners

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• There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Feelings, Guilt, Deeds

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• The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated, with the literalness of utter innocence, into the throwing of the bomb, the shouting of the proud slogan, the dragging away of the young dreamer-doer, still smiling, to the dungeon and the firing squad.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Past, Squad

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.

  Miroslav Volf

  Forgiving God, Differences, Justice

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• No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.

  Plato

  Past, Men, Evil

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• And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons. It never occurred to me that by pretending to be Lulu, I might slip into that other column, even for just a day.

  Gayle Forman

  Two, People, Groups

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.31, Penguin

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• Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Law, Evil, World

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

  Max Muller

  Evil, Suffering, Next

  F. Max Muller (2014). “The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata”, p.7, Routledge

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• It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Order, Class

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.231, Routledge

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• Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

  Susan Hockfield

  Math, Engineering, Giving

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• There's 3 types of people in this world: there's talkers, there's watchers, and there's doers.

  Jeremy Stephens

  Mma, People, World

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• They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers

  Brigham Young

  Eternal Life, Wells, Secure

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• Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Stress, Fighting, Men

  "The College Graduate and Public Life" (1894) See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 5; Theodore Roosevelt 18

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• Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Steps, Action, Planning

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• This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Yoga, Keys

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• The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Men, Foolish Man

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.236, Delphi Classics

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• People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.

  Mario Van Peebles

  Reality, Axes, People

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Evil, Operations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.

  Julian of Norwich

  Deeds Done, Order, Easy

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Fathers are still considered the most important "doers" in our culture, and in most families they are that. Girls see them as thefamily authorities on careers, and so fathers' encouragement and counsel is important to them. When fathers don't take their daughters' achievements and plans seriously, girls sometimes have trouble taking themselves seriously.

  Stella Chess

  Girl, Daughter, Encouragement

  Stella Chess, Jane Whitbread (1978). “Daughters: from infancy to independence”

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• Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Scary, Moral

  Martin Luther, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Samuel Simon Schmucker (1860). “A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.349

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• Ditch the dream and be a doer.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Dream

  "Shonda Rhimes ’91, Commencement Address". Dartmouth Commencement Speech, www.dartmouth.edu. June 8, 2014.

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