“If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”– Paulo Coelho Related Quotes “It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”– Voltaire “Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,’ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‘Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”– Barack Obama “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”– Bertrand Russell