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There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

— Richard Ford

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.

— Tessa Thompson

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about.

— Christopher Alexander

I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

— Viggo Mortensen

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

— Dan Farmer

Sometimes when I'm not working, I go and teach at an acting school, and quite selfishly, that makes me feel more inspired to do things myself.

— Chris Geere

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

— Bjork

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

— Frank Gehry

I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.

— Billy Boyd

All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.

— Milton Glaser

If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

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