Carolyn Wells Quotes

The shortest answer is doing.

Ain't nuttin' to it,but ta do it!

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give ~ with a few exceptions ~ generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

The key is to make it.

The best way to let others know what you're going to do is to actually do it.

For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.

I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.