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All I have to do is educate myself enough in the field to be able to do what I want. It's very practical.


Edward Tufte

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C.S. LEWIS If you're confused about what to do,
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JESS ROW Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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DEYTH BANGER Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do!
JOHN PETERS Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have.
LORRIN L. LEE Everyone has there own good reasons for being what they are being, doing what they are doing, and ha...
LORRIN L. LEE Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
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FIONA WOOD Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.
HALIMA ADEN I don't want to second-guess what they wanted to do, but at some point, we have to be able to take s...
ERIC MOULDS It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to b...
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ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO At the end, what matters is that you tried
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AMBER SMITH Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do...
EDDIE MURPHY Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out.
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LISA KLEYPAS Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.
STEPHENIE MEYER To have more... Be more. Do more. Give more.
LORRIN L. LEE Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can h...
LORRIN L. LEE DO what you LOVE. BE with those you LOVE. HAVE the things you LOVE.
LORRIN L. LEE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To-do list : to-do list!
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT I think being isolated like that let me really get in touch with my inner voice. I was able to ask m...
HARLAND WILLIAMS You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF Because I want to be remembered.
SHERMAN ALEXIE I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS You have to do what you have to do to be able to do what you want to do.
RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties
KATHERINE MANSFIELD The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT I think people should be able to do what they want to do.
BODE MILLER The sad heart needs work to do.
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JOYCE GIRAUD As you see you can't change what has happen in past if I could I do my best to don't happen in other...
DEYTH BANGER To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my...
CLAIRE BLOOM ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ...
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ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Although it sounds cliche, the main thing I want to do is touch people with what I do. I want everyt...
SOPHIE LOWE To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
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CHAD KELLY Less thinking, more living.
S.R. CRAWFORD What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE Bite me.
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LORRIN L. LEE To be happy: BE Yourself. DO what you love to DO. Have what you love to HAVE.
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EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
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EDWARD HOPPER More of me comes out when I improvise.
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EDWARD LEAR The simple act of caring is heroic.
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EDWARD BROOKE I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
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EDWARD NORTON The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
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EDWARD WITTEN The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard,
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EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
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EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
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EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
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EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
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EDWARD ZWICK The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
EDWARD YOUNG When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
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EDWARD NORMAN Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
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EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
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EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lou...
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EDWARD FITZGERALD Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
EDWARD YOUNG A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
EDWARD GIBBON The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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EDWARD RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
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EDWARD GIBBON It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d...
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EDWARD RUTHERFURD Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin...
EDWARD COCKER Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you...
EDWARD COCKER The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
EDWARD KOCH If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:...
EDWARD ABBEY For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.
EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination
EDWARD ABBEY That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i...
EDWARD ABBEY High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...
EDWARD BELLAMY For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope...
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EDWARD ABBEY And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
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EDWARD TELLER Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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EDWARD ABBEY The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
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EDWARD HOAGLAND One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag...
EDWARD DAHLBERG The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
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EDWARD DAHLBERG Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
EDWARD FAIRFAX The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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EDWARD STEICHEN Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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EDWARD DAHLBERG Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
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EDWARD DAHLBERG Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu...
EDWARD HENNESSY The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
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EDWARD HOAGLAND Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
EDWARD HOAGLAND There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
EDWARD DAHLBERG The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON