~ Getting Going Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.

The Independent

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Most of life is routine-dull and grubby but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Ben Nicholas

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.

Sir Walter Scott

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.

Lee Iacocca

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To always be intending to live a new life but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another till he is starved and destroyed.

John Tillotson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world or sunk in the slough of indolence.

Maria Edgeworth

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.

Bobby Murcer

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches miserable colds or toothaches will suddenly disappear as you're up there going through your paces.

Barbara Harris

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one that's wrong because it may never be right and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster you've tried you've learned something you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

Edward McCabe

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

Joseph Conrad