Top 100 Do New Things Quotes

#1. It was amazing the things you could bring yourself to do when you felt insecure, when you were out to protect your heart. You could deny it what it wants most, just for the sake of saving your pride or dodging another bullet.

Rachael Wade

#2. If we take seriously the idea that all objects recede interminably into themselves, then human perception becomes just one among many ways that objects might relate. To put things at the center of a new metaphysics also requires us to admit that they do not exist just for us. The Computer

Ian Bogost

#3. Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.

Tony Evans

#4. Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.

George Meyer

#5. I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.

Gore Vidal

#6. As I move to the front office, I bring the warm copies to my face and breathe them in. This is a weird habit of mine - sniffing copies. I do the same thing when I get a new book. What can I say? I have a paper sniffing problem. Things could be worse.

Autumn Doughton

#7. We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.

Sharon Salzberg

#8. Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.

Stacy London

#9. Do a new thing in a new way. Do it always!

Israelmore Ayivor

#10. We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#11. In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.

Allison Williams

#12. I think we're always trying to push ourselves to do new things.

Jaime Preciado

#13. I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I'm like - I ain't gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I'm doing well with it.

Meek Mill

#14. I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

Carol Windley

#15. Recorded music is basically free now. I used to tour to promote a CD, but now I make a CD to promote a tour. I've moved on and live with the new reality, but I do get frustrated when people do dumb things.

Peter Frampton

#16. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people."36

Charles Duhigg

#17. Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#18. One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Mark Batterson

#19. I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.

Tony Abbott

#20. Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

Rowan Williams

#21. This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.

Lauren Oliver

#22. I know you mean well, but you have to remember that things don't always work out like they do in your storybooks.

Melissa Hill

#23. There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

Pink

#24. Genuinely happy people do not just sit around being content. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings.

Dan Buettner

#25. I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.

Leonard Orr

#26. Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile ... it an grow new life.

John Green

#27. Train hard and try new things; everything you do outside of the cage counts as experience inside the cage.

Jose Aldo

#28. Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.

Paulo Coelho

#29. I wake up with new dreams every day ... more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.

Dolly Parton

#30. You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I do love talking to people about the book, but ideally, I like a little less disruptive lifestyle, I like it when things are more organized.

Garance Dore

#31. New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do.

Ryan Reynolds

#32. So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

Lee Ann Womack

#33. Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

Austin Kleon

#34. My friends scoffed at my anxiety and said dumb things like, 'Fifty is the new forty!' Which just made me realize that there are a whole lot of other people who suck at math as bad as I do. No. Fifty is fifty.

Celia Rivenbark

#35. God is the God of new things, expect new things, fresh things and tangible things in this new season. Open your heart and believe, that's all you have to do; is to believe He's able to turn impossibilities into possibilities. That is the God we serve.

Euginia Herlihy

#36. People don't want to do new things if they think they're going to be bad at them or people are going to laugh at them. You have to be willing to subject yourself to failure, to be bad, to fall on your head and do it again, and try stuff that you've never done in order to be the best you can be.

Laird Hamilton

#37. Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.

Amy Acker

#38. It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.

Helen Keller

#39. I would say that it is a trait by which Americans, searching for things which are different or new, seem to recognize the gift that people may have that cause people do to things.

Emilio Pucci

#40. So how do you count in Happiness? It's a little different, but just as easy to learn. In Happiness, you count by making a list of five things that make you happy. Do this daily. Some things will appear on your list every day, and some things will be new from one day to the next.

Valerie Alexander

#41. In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible.

Stuart Wilde

#42. Innovation can also increase risk, new things always do; therefore the engineering teams must understand that with freedom comes responsibility, ownership and accountability for the new stuff they produce and/or implement.

Anonymous

#43. Oh save your nagging for your husband, I'm going out. I have things to do before I go to New York.

Evelyn Smith

#44. Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.

Al Jarreau

#45. Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Bill Gates

#46. In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

Chris Zylka

#47. While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest.

Jane Cleland

#48. Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.

Ben Vereen

#49. When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Bill Gates

#50. It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems.

David First

#51. I was offered Fagin-type roles, but I wanted to do new things. I could have worked in America, but there was a recession in the British film industry, and I wanted to work in England. I've no regrets.

Ron Moody

#52. Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

Billy Collins

#53. The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?

Melanie Chisholm

#54. That's why I get excited over new things, because I didn't have much when I was smaller and my parents could only do so much.

Jc Caylen

#55. Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born.

Israelmore Ayivor

#56. No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#57. Hey, I knows things. I can take you places, but you gots to be willin' to do certain... things.

Jason Medina

#58. I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love what you are doing, you are able to do extraordinary things that you yourself didn't think you could do before.

Rokia Traore

#59. ...the scepticism of men, who do not truly believe in new things unless they have actually had personal experience of them.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#60. I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight.

Shannon Lucid

#61. To be willing to do new things you don't think you'll like requires you to prefer the unknown. Not just tolerate it, but to prefer it.

Seth Godin

#62. We mustn't be traditional in the way we communicate with people - especially with the Establishment. We should surprise people by saying new things in an entirely new way. Communication of that sort can have a fantastic power so long as you don't do only what they expect you to do.

Yoko Ono

#63. If we do not meet with agreeable things, we shall at least meet with something new.

Voltaire

#64. He tilted my head up with his index finger. Tingles spread on my skin. Pain, obstacles, betrayal and all shitty things that happen in life shape everyone, just as much as good things do. Don't regret anything if in the end you can say you're an amazing woman.

Stephanie Witter

#65. The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

Colin Greenwood

#66. One of my favorite things to do is put my headphones on,blast some good music and just walk my own personal music video

Donal O'Callaghan

#67. Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

Tamara Hughes

#68. The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.

Phil Karn

#69. I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#70. The inclination of my life ... has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

Walt Disney

#71. She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to challenge her, to tell her about things she'd never thought of, to show her new points of view.

Anna Godbersen

#72. I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.

David Rees

#73. I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

Vincent Cassel

#74. Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, 'What can I do? I'm basically a victim.'

Stephen Covey

#75. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference in your - and likely in others' lives as well. Yes is what keeps us all young. It's a tiny word that can do big things. Say it often.

Eric Schmidt

#76. There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.

Nathan Lane

#77. Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.

Lyle Lovett

#78. the innate need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world'.62 Numerous experiments have shown that not only do rewards reduce motivation, they actually hamper our performance. In

Raoul Martinez

#79. I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's a screen blinking at you. I think it's going to have a tremendous effect on our brains, because those bright, saturated colors and those strong lines, they do things to your brain.

Linda Ronstadt

#80. With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Carmelo Anthony

#81. Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#82. a river always leads to some inhabited spot. If we do not find pleasant things we shall at least find new things." "With

Voltaire

#83. Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in New York - I can do way more stand-up here than in Los Angeles.

Aziz Ansari

#84. Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!

Elif Shafak

#85. I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of law, cruel and unusual punishments. I fully accept that those things have to apply to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time.

Antonin Scalia

#86. Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.

George Raveling

#87. I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Craig Ferguson

#88. I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.

Suzanne Vega

#89. You're only a new artist one time, and I can just say I'm so blessed. I feel so inspired to do other things, to be so much more.

Ciara

#90. When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.

Carl Hagelin

#91. Events are temporary. Bad things happen, but usually we do not feel their effects on us forever. It's really true that time heals wounds. Your disappointments are important and serious, but your distress will pass and your life will take you in new directions. Give yourself some time.

David Niven

#92. One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.

Carol Berg

#93. I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

Ernest Hemingway,

#94. I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.

Douglas Coupland

#95. So many things have now become interesting to me because at first I had to do them whether I liked them or not, and thus one is kicked into conquering new countries where one is afterwards at home.

C.S. Lewis

#96. Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Louis Sachar

#97. When you find that God is absent, you do many things. You temporize, for a while. You buy a new prayer book, hoping that perhaps some Celtic blessings might do the trick.

Lauren F. Winner

#98. This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people.

Tom Berenger

#99. When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

Neil Patrick Harris

#100. High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game.

Willie Geist

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