A Quote by Michel de Montaigne
Saying is one thing and doing is another
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We cannot have another experience like we've had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.
It's no good saying one thing and doing another.
All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.
Establishment, career politicians are about saying one thing and doing another.
Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
Politicians saying one thing and doing another, celebrities though are some of the worst offenders.
I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
It isn't hard to be an artist and do your money thing. It's much harder to wake up in the middle of the night knowing that you're being ripped off and starting to get this feeling in your stomach almost bordering on bitterness toward people who are saying one thing and doing another.
Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.
That's your doing. Now in order to affect that doing I am going to recommend that you learn another doing... It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself to either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the note-doing of the self
Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?
Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.
A lot of people have problems thinking of you doing more than one thing. If you do one thing, then you couldn't possibly do another thing well. Of course, we know that's not so.
When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing--or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don't and can't get anyway.
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