“Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.”
Amelia Earhart
This quote is commonly attributed to Amelia Earhart, but I have not been able to locate a primary source. Use with caution in academic or professional contexts.
“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard. It retards reactions, makes one unfit. Hamlet would have been a bad aviator. He worried too much.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”
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“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Disputed“Have you something to do tomorrow; do it today.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source