Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just … - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

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