WIST Quotations

Kasdan, Lawrence -- The Empire Strikes Back (1980) [with George Lucas and Leigh Brackett]

Dave — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:49:27 +0000

YODA: No! Try not. Do — or do not. There is no try.

Lawrence Kasdan (b. 1949) American screenwriter, director, producer
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) [with George Lucas and Leigh Brackett]

Munroe, Randall -- XKCD, # 896 “Marie Curie” (9 May 2011)

Dave — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:52:01 +0000

You don’t become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe (b. 1984) American webcomic writer, roboticist, programmer
XKCD, # 896 “Marie Curie” (9 May 2011)
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- “New England Reformers,” lecture, Boston (1844-03-03), Essays: Second Series (1844)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
“New England Reformers,” lecture, Boston (1844-03-03), Essays: Second Series (1844)
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Reprinted in Essays: Second Series (1844).