Works, first and foremost! That is to say, doing, doing, doing! The 'faith' that goes with it will soon put in an appearance - you can be sure of that!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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WATTS Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to h... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that conve... RONY ABOVITZ My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do more and ... JON ALTERMAN The cost of doing business typically goes up. We have an aging infrastructure that needs to be repai... JOE MUNEM One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Som... DEBORAH BROWN First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times t... ADAM MCKAY All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... 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SALLY HAWKINS We are not doing well in the U.K., and the first step to taking care of that is to get an agreement ... JAMES KIM IF ONE IS FOCUSED ,THERE IS NO NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING THE WORLD WILL SOON KNOW WHAT YO... DR.PRASAD RAJHANS If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the... ENRICO COLANTONI We have to make sure that our set moves come off right and we're not dropping passes. We need to con... KYLE MCBRIDE If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. LYNDON B. JOHNSON This is about looking like they're doing something. I'm sure polls will show that the administration... BILL PRINDLE a footnote on Friedrich Nietzsche. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue. DAVID GREGORY Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boat... 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They... CAREY SCHWABER Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that... ELISABETH ELLIOT That means you can do what you're doing, but you have to change how you're doing it, ... That's retr... DAN WOOD I have always heard an old wives' tale that whatever you are doing on New Year's Day is what you wil... DANIELLE PATTERSON You?re kind of like the boss on the field. You?re making sure everyone is doing what they?re suppose... KYLE PROBST Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that eve... BRENNAN MANNING The cookbook was meant as a fundraiser to help us with construction costs of the chapel. And we can ... JANE WHITE You have seniors that aren't doing anything pretty much in the league and (around) D-I basketball. T... ALEXANDER JOHNSON The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material.... ALFRED MOLINA We have fun. I think it spills off into the crowd. Our main job is to have a good time first and for... DIERKS BENTLEY I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing. STEVE MCQUEEN The first rule of luck in business is that you should persevere in doing the right thing. Opportunit... RONALD COHEN I am sure by the time the game starts later in the week it will be a packed crowd. You have to start... ZACH THOMAS Turnovers are something that kind of come with being comfortable with what you're doing and comforta... BRANDON NOBLE You have it in the back of your mind of doing it, but I'm sure there will be a race when it comes. KAREN HAREWOOD What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL We hope by doing that we will gain the signature of the governor to put in law this legislation. REP. CHRISTOPHER CARUSO You know, this machine is doing good, it's keeping me playing with that first $20. JOSEPHINE CRAWFORD As far as trying to compete in a major championship such as the Open and other tournaments, this is ... ARNOLD PALMER It astounds me in a way, and I don't mean that in a patronizing way. Everyone is going to make the... RANDY WOLF I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can... RAJIV OUSEPH You just keep doing what you're doing, if there is a fear of loose and get mocked doing it, then aga... BALAY FIGARO You want to save fuel to avoid higher costs in the future. When you have a solvent airline that's no... ANTHONY SABINO Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the expe... JUSTIN THEROUX I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and ... DANIEL KEYES In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist... DAVID AMRAM If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always p... RAY KROC There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and ... CLAY SHIRKY Everyday make sure you are doing one or two things that will make you better concerning your goals SUNDAY ADELAJA We will probably be doing a workshop with council soon, in the next few weeks. I'm hoping that we ha... BETSY WILLIAMS The Institute makes sure that the work we're doing to preserve the King legacy - all of the material... CLAYBORNE CARSON We're talking about doing some stuff with them, but I don't know that anything will come of that, ..... 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JAY MERGENTHALER I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL We’re all scared. Yes, all of us. I’m afraid every day. If I’m not afraid, I must n... RICHIE NORTON
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold? FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is the cruelest animal. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Invisible threads are the strongest ties. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only sick music makes money today. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price . This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE