Just do it.

Subject: Just do it.
From: The Shambles
Date: 19 May 00 - 07:06 AM

"..yet my mind was not at rest, because nothing was acted, and thoughts ran into me, that words and writings were all nothing, and must die, for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing,"

Gerrard Winstanley

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Allan C.
Date: 19 May 00 - 07:39 AM

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
-Sydney Smith

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: AndyG
Date: 19 May 00 - 07:43 AM

We the free People of England, to whom God hath given hearts, means and opportunity to effect the same, do with submission to his wisdom, in his name, and desiring the equity thereof may be to his praise and glory; Agree to ascertain our Government, to abolish all arbitrary Power, and to set bounds and limits both to our Supreme, and all Subordinate Authority, and remove all known Grievances.

And accordingly do declare and publish to all the world,

That we are agreed as followeth,

John Lilburne et al
An Agreement Of The Free People of England
1649

you've been looking up The Diggers Sham!

AndyG

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: kendall
Date: 19 May 00 - 07:54 AM

..and enterprises of great pith and moment become sicklied over with the pale cast of thought, and lose the name of action.. the bard of Avon

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Gervase
Date: 19 May 00 - 07:59 AM

"Better pass boldy into that other world in the full glory of some passon than fade and wither dismally with age" - James Joyce, The Dead.

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Amos
Date: 19 May 00 - 08:26 AM

-------------------------------************_--------------------  "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be  purchased at the price of chains and  slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not  what course others may take, but as for  me, give me liberty, or give me death!"     

Patrick Henry, American patriot, March  1775

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Amos
Date: 19 May 00 - 08:27 AM

-------------------------------************_--------------------
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be
purchased at the price of chains and
slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not
what course others may take, but as for
me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

Patrick Henry, American patriot
March 1775

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Amos
Date: 19 May 00 - 08:28 AM

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue
freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Wesley S
Date: 19 May 00 - 08:56 AM

"I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end"

Albert Schweitzer

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Peter T.
Date: 19 May 00 - 09:01 AM

"I don't mind dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens." -- Woody Allen.

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 19 May 00 - 09:48 AM

What's madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire!

Theodore Roethke
In a Dark Time

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Wesley S
Date: 19 May 00 - 09:54 AM

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult"

Seneca - but swiped from Doug Harvey on the CBOM list

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: mactheturk
Date: 19 May 00 - 10:33 AM

"In the divine account-books only our actions are noted, not what we have read or what we have spoken."

Mahatma Gandhi

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: GUEST
Date: 19 May 00 - 10:33 AM

On the other hand...

"The descent to Hades is the same from every place." --Anaxagoras

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Bert
Date: 19 May 00 - 10:43 AM

You can't stop living for fear of dying.

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Peg
Date: 19 May 00 - 10:59 AM

Do not doubt for a moment that the small act of a single person can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

paraphrased from Margaret Mead

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 19 May 00 - 11:02 AM

"Give me Liberty's or give me Harvey Nicks": Tara Palmer-Tompkinson
RtS

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Jacob B
Date: 19 May 00 - 11:11 AM

As you're lying there in traction
If you've been a man of action
You can get some satisfaction
Thinking, 'Jesus, at least I tried"

Subject: Lyr Add: DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
From: sophocleese
Date: 19 May 00 - 11:17 AM

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lighting they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: mactheturk
Date: 19 May 00 - 11:23 AM

"I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a great deal about their acts."

Horace Mann

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Giac
Date: 19 May 00 - 11:25 AM

"... Let us arise and go now
to the Isle of Manisfree
and live the true blue simple life
of wisdom and wonderment
where all things grow
straight up
aslant and singing
in the yellow sun
poppies out of cowpods ..."

Junkman's Obbligato -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Wavestar
Date: 19 May 00 - 11:36 AM

All to fragile is the passion of mankind; we can but net its shadows in the webwork of words, as a testament of it, in the time to come.

-Micheal Fromberger

Nothing in the world is accomplished without passion.

-Fortune cookie (and my life's motto)

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Mbo
Date: 19 May 00 - 11:59 AM

Hold on tight to your dream
Hold on tight to your dream
When you see your ship go sailing
When you feel your heart is breaking
Hold tight to your dream.

It's a long time to be gone
Time just rolls on and on
When you need a shoulder to cry on
When you get so sick of trying
Just hold tight to your dream

When you get so down that you can't get up
And you want so much but you're all out of luck
When you're so downhearted and misunderstood
Just over & over & over you could

Accroches-toi a ton reve
Accroches-toi a ton reve
Quand tu vois ton bateau partir
Quand tu sents -- ton coeur se briser
Accroches-toi a ton reve.

Hold on tight to your dream
Hold on tight to your dream
When you see the shadows falling
When you hear that cold wind calling
Hold on tight to your dream.

Hold on tight to your dream
Yeah, hold on tight...
To your dream!


My favorite ELO song, and my own personal theme song.

--mbo

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 19 May 00 - 12:12 PM

"Cats prefer plain crisps"

- mcmoo

mcmoo

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Peter T.
Date: 19 May 00 - 12:27 PM

Yeah, why is that about cats? I could never get my cat to eat any kind of flavoured crisps (chips). I mean apart from their having impeccable taste in everything but horking up grass on the carpet...yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Mbo
Date: 19 May 00 - 12:31 PM

My cat likes Sour Cream n' Onion chips. Or any kind of snack food with garlic in it...

"I remember when we were young, you used to nibble on my ear....now all you nibble is crisps..." --Daisy, from Keeping Up Appearances

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Kaleb
Date: 19 May 00 - 01:05 PM

"You can put a cat in the oven; that don't make it a biscuit" --Clete Sawyer


-Kaleb

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: GeorgeH
Date: 19 May 00 - 01:21 PM

Thanks to all those who posted prior to McMoo - someone had to spoil it, but up to then it had been a wonderful read (the sort of thing I'd expected on dropping into a "world turned upside down" thread the other day - that experience was as disappointing as this was rewarding).

Have a great weekend!

G.

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 19 May 00 - 02:09 PM

Anyone know the proper phrasing for the Simone de Beauvoir quote from the daycare scenes in a 70s Doonesbury strip with Joanie - something about there being 2 kinds of people, human beings and men (or human beings and women, I can't get it to make sense either way, but the gist is ...) that when women start acting like human beings, they are accused of trying to be men?

Act like a human being, is my motto. Which, when I say it to my kids, tends to come out Behave! - to which at least one has already answered But mom, I'm being hayve!

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: MMario
Date: 19 May 00 - 02:21 PM

I thought it was somehting along the lines of "there are two species - Human beings and men....because when anyone starts acting like a typical man, they get told "Act like a human being!"

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Mbo
Date: 19 May 00 - 06:04 PM

"Don't try to be a great man--just try to be a man, and let history decide the rest."

--Zephram Cochrane

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 May 00 - 06:28 PM

"I am inclined to think that a hunt for folk songs is better than a hunt for heroes" - Beethoven

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Mooh
Date: 19 May 00 - 09:15 PM

"Would you exchange a walk-on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?" Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)

"Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, and doubly sweet a brotherhood in song." John Keats

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." Bacon

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Mbo
Date: 19 May 00 - 11:07 PM

"I've seen enough of this world to know you gotta get it all, to get it all to grow" --Jeff Lynne

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Chocolate Pi
Date: 19 May 00 - 11:37 PM

Compensation

I should be glad of loneliness
And hours that go on broken wings
A thirsty body, a tired heart
And the unchanging ache of things,
If I could make a single song
As lovely and full of light
As hushed and brief as a falling star
On a winter night.

--Sara Teasdale

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 19 May 00 - 11:44 PM

You don't have to move a mountain
All you have to move is you
Write a letter, help a neighbor
Lift your voice, try something new
Though that voice may be small and quiet
It can make a mighty sound
Find it in yourself and try it
You can turn the world around

--Mark

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: bbelle
Date: 20 May 00 - 12:42 AM

You can please some of the people some of the time. You cannot please all of the people all of the time ... P.T. Barnum

Jenny

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: JenEllen
Date: 20 May 00 - 01:12 AM

Here's to those who wish us well, those who don't can go to h&ll.
Patsy Cline
~Elle

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: roopoo
Date: 20 May 00 - 03:07 AM

"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness".

mouldy

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Amergin
Date: 20 May 00 - 03:07 AM

We see the day when man shall rise,
And, firm on science building,
From Thefts thick mask of fraud and lies
Stript all the specious gilding

James Connolly-a patriot of the working class

Amergin

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: gillymor
Date: 20 May 00 - 09:02 AM

...and the over-examined life is not lived at all.
G.B. Shaw
There's a another world, just next door, that's so much more fun than this one. E.E. Cummings

Over-analysis leads to paralysis.

Frankie

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: mactheturk
Date: 20 May 00 - 09:13 AM

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

Disraeli

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Mbo
Date: 20 May 00 - 12:01 PM

Hey now, you're an All-star
Get your game on, go play
Hey now, you're a rock star
Get your show on, get paid
All that glitters is gold
But only shooting stars break the mold...
--Smash Mouth

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 20 May 00 - 02:19 PM

...A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.

...a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, George Gray.

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 20 May 00 - 07:01 PM

Interesting George that it was YOU that had to bring a touch of sourness to the thread.

mcmoo

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 May 00 - 08:32 PM

RE: Just do it.

Is there any other way?

~S~

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 May 00 - 08:44 PM

Some foods need a bit of sourness to be palateable.

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Amergin
Date: 20 May 00 - 08:55 PM

Can't remember who said this but here goes:

The great only appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise.

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: GUEST,Sheila
Date: 21 May 00 - 10:40 AM

Hi. I remember my mother telling me, "Don't despair. But when in despair, go on in despair."

May all times be happy ones, but we do have to keep going on. Sheila

Subject: RE: Just do it.
From: Kelida
Date: 21 May 00 - 11:04 AM

"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane."
-Kurt Vonnegut, JR Breakfast of Champions

"The true path to wisdom lies in the overeating of fortune cookies."

My very own personal mottos.

Peace--Keli

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