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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
john milton— John Milton, Samson Agonistes (1671), line 246.
It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.
Peter Drucker— p. 284 (The Practice of Management (1954))
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
theodore roosevelt— Berkeley, CA, 1911
All actions are performed by the gunas of prakriti. Deluded by identification with the ego, a person thinks, " I am the doer."
— Krishna; Chapter 3, verse 27; Eknath Easwaran translation
All action is entirely done by the gunas of Prakriti. Man deluded by the sense “I”, thinks, “I am the doer.”
— Gita, p.46
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
— Theodore Roosevelt, Berkeley, CA, 1911
If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes, some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong, and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other.
sydney smith— Sydney Smith, Sketches of Moral Philosophy, p. 309; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
