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Doing Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
- It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is…
- A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
- Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
- It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that…
- This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy…
- If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
- To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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