Just do it.

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: JulieF
Date: 21 May 00 - 11:45 AM

Life is something that happens when you're busy planning other things. - Watching the Wheels - Joh Lennon

Given that was on the last album it always makes me think.

Julie

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Rosebrook
Date: 21 May 00 - 11:46 AM

"Silence is the voice of complicity"

(author unknown to me)

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: kendall
Date: 21 May 00 - 11:55 AM

It's better to write one Kendall than to curse the darkness.. Utha Phillips.

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Hollowfox
Date: 22 May 00 - 01:19 PM

You get done quicker if you start. Jim May (an excellent storyteller)

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Grab
Date: 22 May 00 - 02:21 PM

"I only ever met one journalist who had a completely clear desk, and he was eventually arrested for molesting small boys..." -- Bill Bryson, "The Lost Continent"

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: JenEllen
Date: 22 May 00 - 10:13 PM

Lesseee...give ya the list:

I like viable women who are out there doing....I like women who are very involved with living and who haven't pulled out from life
Collen Dewhurst

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night
Edgar Allen Poe

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading, it vexes me to choose another guide
Emily Bronte

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom in mea magnificent glow, than a sleep and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exhist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time
Jack London

Life is easier than you think. All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensible, and bear the intolerable
Kathleen Norris

Ever notice that "What the hell" is always the right decision?
Marilyn Monroe

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing, One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying
Morris L. West

I will not live by ordinary standards. I will not run with the pack. I will not be chained into a routine of living which is the same forothers. I will not look to the ground and move on the ground with the rest: so long as there are those mountaintops, and clouds, and limitless space
Nicholas Van Ryn (Dragonwyck)

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature
Tom Robbins

You know too much...I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill you now...
~Elle ;)

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 May 00 - 10:28 PM

I read Shamble's original post and then read the thread again to see if all this "positive thinking" started that way or slowly eeked its way in and I think its some combination thereof............But if we're passing on personal "life quotes we live by".........I offer only two and neither fits in too well, but what the hell.

The world is a giant shithouse and we're the flies it attracts..........Gavin Lambert, "Inside Daisy Clover"

There is only what is; what should be never existed...Lenny Bruce, Stand-Up Philosopher

Spaw

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 May 00 - 12:38 AM

Found this in some clippings of my mother's:

"The Winning Way"

by Anon.

If you put a little loving into all the work you do
And a little bit of gladness, and a little bit of you,
And a little bit of sweetness, and a little bit of song,
Not a day will seem too tollsome; not a day will seem too long;
And your work will be attractive, and the world will stop to look,
And the world will see a sweetness, like the tinkling of a brook,
In the finished job, and then the world will turn to look at you
With a world's appreciation of the thing you've found to do.

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: KT
Date: 23 May 00 - 12:46 AM

From Langston Hughes...

"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."

and I don't know who deserves credit for this one, but I like it...

"Triumph is merely ... TRY with a little UMPH!!"

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: zonahobo
Date: 23 May 00 - 02:37 AM

This is my own little do it quote which I sadly haven't lived by:

Now matter how solid the ground where you stand, hesitation can turn it into quick sand ..

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Mbo
Date: 23 May 00 - 11:56 AM

C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon--you gotta make it happen! Yeah yeah yeah! Yeah yeah yeah! --Oasis

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: kendall
Date: 23 May 00 - 06:10 PM

You must get out on the limb..thats where the fruit is.

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: ddw
Date: 23 May 00 - 07:03 PM

As an American living in Canada I get a little tired of hearing the U.S. trashed — usually when I tell somebody I'm going somewhere south — as such a violent place. My standard answer has become: "I'd rather die from a bullet than boredom."

But then, if I really wanted some violence, I'd play hockey...

cheers,

david

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 May 00 - 07:10 PM

I find th idea of dying from a bullet extremely boring. Don't care what bore it is either.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Mbo
Date: 23 May 00 - 07:16 PM

"Get up off the floor and believe in life
No one's ever gonna ask you twice
Get on the bus and bring it on home to me"

--Oasis

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Amergin
Date: 23 May 00 - 09:15 PM

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government, when it deserves it.

Heard that somewhere, can't remember where....

Amergin

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 May 00 - 09:36 PM

Thanks ddw.....This thread is way too cheery. I was getting a bad case of gas...........but for all you "cheery" types quoting these eminent people, why not go with:

"There ain't nothin' to it but to do it." Kermit the Frog

Spaw

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: JenEllen
Date: 23 May 00 - 11:49 PM

The power of the force stopped you, you hosers
~Doug MacKenzie

~Elle

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Skivee
Date: 24 May 00 - 10:19 AM

"Don't run through the house with scissors in your head." "You can't make an omlet without breaking some legs." "Lie down with dogs and you'll get up with fleas; but lie down with sheep and you'll get up with fleece." Long John Skivee's Da'

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Clifton53
Date: 24 May 00 - 10:29 AM

"What if the Hokey-Pokey really 'is' what it's all about?

Refrigerator magnet

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 24 May 00 - 10:40 AM

I thought it was "Lie down with sheep and people will think you're from New Zealand" (apologies to Billy the Bus).
RtS

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 May 00 - 10:43 AM

Yeah Skiff, but they'll KNOW you're from Scotland!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Robo
Date: 24 May 00 - 10:17 PM

"Untitled"

I was sitting on the bowl

thinking

I don't have time for this

shit.

--Rob-o

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Skivee
Date: 25 May 00 - 08:47 AM

"You can't go home again." Dylan Thomas "Don't come home." Long john Skivee's Da' "Red sky in mornin', sailor take a drink." Da' again

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: GUEST,liz the squeak
Date: 25 May 00 - 06:27 PM

Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it, depends on what you put into it...

Soon we'll be out into the hard worlds strife, soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life....

And my own personal chant -

Hearts full of youth
Hearts full of truth
Six parts gin to one part vermouth!

With thanks to Tom Lehrer.

LTS