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Doing Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
- Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
- Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.
- One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
- We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.
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