You couldn't have it if you DID want it.
I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation
I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?
Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.