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• Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?

  Robin Sharma

  Exercise, Complaining, Time For Yourself

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.64, Jaico Publishing House

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• Separate yourself from your ideas and your work and see them as something separate from yourself, you’ll feel you truly have the right to be wrong. If an idea fails, why not let it be the idea’s fault instead of your own? Allow your ideas to fail without turning them into personal defeat. When you fail you discover your boundaries. You map out the edges of your capabilities. And this allows you to eventually move beyond them. Being wrong eventually leads to being right. And even where it doesn’t, it’s still a more interesting path than being nothing.

  Steve Pavlina

  Moving, Ideas, Interesting

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• The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa — not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is, you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say, 'Why not?'; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.

  Anita Dunn

  Mother, Simple, Two

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• Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Work, Love Is

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• You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

  James Sinegal

  Business, Income, Add

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• There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?

  Artie Shaw

  Games, Playing Music, Phrases

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• They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

  Robert Browning

  Change, Time, Perfect

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.326, Pearson Education

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• Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?

  Alber Elbaz

  Wrinkles, Curves, Want

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• I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the half century in between. And why not? I'm deeply underwhelmed by most contemporary art, literature, music, films, TV, the heinous little phones, money talk, real estate talk, all that stuff. The Internet, which at first seemed so fascinating, appears to be evolving into something even worse than TV, but we'll see.

  Donald Fagen

  Art, Growing Up, Real

  Donald Fagen (2013). “Eminent Hipsters”, p.5, Penguin

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• I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

  Matt Bors

  Adventure, Giving, Life Is

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• Good wine needs no bush,
  And perhaps products that people really want
  Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push.
  Why not?
  Look at pot.

  Ogden Nash

  Humorous, Wine, People

  "Most Doctors Recommend or Yours For Fast Fast Fast Relief". "The Old Dog Barks Backwards". Book by Ogden Nash, 1972.

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• On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses. . . We have not the courage to carry our cross, and we are very much mistaken; for, whatever we do, the cross holds us tight - we cannot escape from it. What, then, have we to lose? Why not love our crosses, and make use of them to take us to heaven?

  John Vianney

  Children, Heaven, Suffering

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• 'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

  Seth Godin

  Long, Mediocrity, Good Enough

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.31, Penguin

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• If I can get better, why not?

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Get Better, Ifs

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• We all travel different roads to our ultimate destinations. For some of us the path is rockier than for others. But no one reaches the end without feeling some form of adversity. So rather than fight it, why not accept it as the way of life? Why not detach yourself from the outcomes and simply experience every circumstance that enters your life to the fullest?

  Robin Sharma

  Adversity, Fighting, Feelings

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• "I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Healthy, Looks

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• I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?

  Abram Hoffer

  Cancer, Hands, Feel Good

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• Don't look back and ask, Why? Look ahead and ask, Why not?

  Neil Patel

  Entrepreneur, Looks, Looking Ahead

  FaceBook post by Neil Patel from Jan 09, 2013

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• When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

  Dale Carnegie

  Gratitude, Luck, Ease

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• We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, People, Events

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• Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Gratitude, Grateful, Perspective

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• What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges. It may cause you grief, it may test your relationships and cause you to question your sanity, but you can do it! Yes, a fifty-seven year-old man can run across the United States and break a couple or records in the process. People of any age can accomplish what few others have done; we can endure the trials, overcome the obstacles, put up with the pain to realize our dreams. Why not try?

  Marshall Ulrich

  Running, Dream, Pain

  Marshall Ulrich (2011). “Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across Ameri ca”, p.117, Penguin

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• The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

  Clay Shirky

  Internet, Mass, Publishing

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• Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos why not call it the consummate science — which gets its perfection from seeming imperfection.

  John Marin

  Art, Perfection, Done

  "John Marin".

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• If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject for anybody who thinks they ought to understand what’s happening around them but is put off by the usual dense text and economics jargon.

  Diane Coyle

  Book, Thinking, Laughing

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