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Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- the movie Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein 
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Surrealism had a great effect on me
because then I realized that
the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity.
Surrealism to me is reality.
- John Lennon
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.
If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lot
of worry and regret by choosing to permanently
erase it from your to-do list.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Always question WHY you are doing something.
Is it a free-will gift or an obligation?
That which is done out of a feeling of obligation
is unworkable as a substitute for a gift.
Obligation creates a feeling of resentment on your part,
and evokes resentment rather than gratitude
on the part of the recipient.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Fear of the unknown is
the greatest fear of humankind,
and death the greatest unknown.
Acknowledging these doubts and the fears
is a powerful beginning.
It is liberating to say,
"Yes, I don't know, and yes, I am afraid."
Beyond that, the path to happiness
lies in living in the moment -
enjoying what you are doing today.
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes,
but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done,
even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse.
There lies freedom, indeed.
- Anonymous
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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