Top 100 Do Next Quotes
#1. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
#2. Every check-in should mean something. Foursquare should get smarter every time that you continue to check in. We should be able to offer special deals that you may be interested in, and we should be able to offer recommendations for the type of things you should do next.
Dennis Crowley
#3. I think people have learned that Herbie Hancock can be defined as someone that you won't be able to figure out what he's going to do next. The sky is the limit as far as I'm concerned.
Herbie Hancock
#4. This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism.
Antonio Banderas
#5. I have a lot of time to smoke a cigar and sit around and do nothing and enjoy life-and wonder and ponder. I need time to think about how to conquer things. I am faced with the challenge of what I will do next and how will I do it.
Mark Gonzales
#6. A car sweeps down the street. Light gleams on the plate and on the surface of the coffee and in the devil's soft eyes. Bernina thinks, whatever he'll do next, she won't ever tell. Some things you got to keep for yourself.
Helen McClory
#7. The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
Vidal Sassoon
#8. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
Stephen Fry
#9. Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.
George R R Martin
#10. I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest.
Emily Blunt
#11. Proposing is like giving someone your dick and a sharp knife, then waiting to see what they do next.
Penny Reid
#12. I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.
Adrian Peterson
#14. You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry Ford
#15. Your job isn't to do your job. Your job is to decide what to do next.
Seth Godin
#16. When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
Bruce Schneier
#17. The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.
Alan Bennett
#18. Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated the lesson of history.
Russell Baker
#19. Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.
Maya Lin
#20. I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.
Mitch Kapor
#21. Republican Scott Brown lost his bid for Senate in New Hampshire last night, two years after he was voted out as Senator in Massachusetts. When asked what he was planning to do next, he said, 'Are they still looking for a mayor in Toronto?'
Jimmy Fallon
#22. It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about
what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.
George MacDonald
#23. My focus was on trying to figure out what God wanted be to do next. Their (his parents') focus was on what I was doing for God at the moment.
Jeremy Camp
#24. President Lyndon Johnson was very, very unpredictable. We never knew for sure what he is going to do next, and he preferred to have it that way; if he could do something as a complete surprise, that was his preference.
Clint Hill
#25. We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.
Alain De Botton
#26. Are we so sure that Christ always knew what to do next? He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.
Dan Simmons
#27. Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover
#28. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
Alexander McCall Smith
#29. What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#30. You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.
Barbara Kingsolver
#31. As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.
Jonathan Levine
#32. The decision about what to do next was as difficult to grasp as the water swirling around my feet.
Renee Conoulty
#33. You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.
Sophie Kinsella
#34. The baby looked at Simon, then back at Alec. His small face looked thoughtful, as if he might shake his head and go: That Jace, what will he do next?
Cassandra Clare
#35. To "stand around with egg on one's face" is not to be confused with "standing around with one's thumb up one's fundament," which means not knowing what to do next, as does "not knowing whether to defecate or wind one's watch.
Kurt Vonnegut
#36. I just feel like I'm going to be criticized regardless of what I do next, so I might as well do something that I feel really passionate about.
Katy Perry
#37. I don't really have a structured path of wanting to say, "This is what I'll do next." I'm just going to read a bunch of scripts and see which one I love. There are so many things I would love to play, in all different genres.
Selena Gomez
#38. Rather than admitting you don't know what to do next, you fake it in public and feel lost when you're alone.
Emily P. Freeman
#39. Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next.
Mike Nichols
#40. I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.
Michael Socha
#41. Time is always now. Everybody who has ever thought about his own life knows this. You don't make resolutions about something you are going to do next year. No! You decide to write a book: the book may be finished twenty years from now, but you've got to start it now.
James Baldwin
#42. You're never confident. You go in fear and trembling every day. It would be awfully nice to think that you know how to write a novel. But what you know is the novel you just wrote. You don't have the slightest notion how to write the one you're going to do next.
Wallace Stegner
#43. To be a man, watched by women. It must be entirely strange. To have them watching him all the time. To have them wondering, What's he going to do next?
Margaret Atwood
#44. If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?
David Wessel
#46. I don't have a career, I don't have a family, and I don't know what to do next. I've been so determined to escape anything permanent, and now I just feel like I'm nowhere. And what if that's the permanent thing by default?
Jonathan Tropper
#47. There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?
Simon Mainwaring
#48. I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.
Lenny Kravitz
#49. It struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can't say what it's going to do next.
James Gleick
#50. There followed one of those comical interludes in which the jihadists were confused about what to do next and fell to bitter recriminations.
Neal Stephenson
#51. Too much happiness, too much unhappiness, out of due time, men are thrown off balance. What will they do next? Thought runs wild. No control. They start everything, finish nothing. Here competition begins, here the idea of excellence is born, and robbers appear in the world.
Thomas Merton
#52. When you finish for the day, write a note reminding yourself of what you plan to do next. This helps you to remember today's great idea when you get back to work tomorrow.
Nita Leland
#53. It's important to read as much as you can because you never know when you will find the best script that you want to do next. I'm always quite picky in what I read and what I go for.
Douglas Booth
#54. There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
Gary Sinise
#55. You may wonder why I'm not in the Hab right now. Because I fled in terror, that's why! And I'm not sure what the hell to do next.
Andy Weir
#56. Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.
Ernest Hemingway,
#57. It's hard to imagine him angry without them. It must be like watching a game show by yourself, how calling out the answers feels silly and pointless. What is fury without witnesses? Where's the tension minus an audience to wonder what you'll do next?
Curtis Sittenfeld
#58. What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation?
Carol S. Dweck
#59. I literally don't know what I'm going to do next. That's successful.
Chris Rock
#60. When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'
Anna Popplewell
#61. Well, what shall I do next? What is the next thing demanded of me by history?
Donald Barthelme
#62. I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, 'What do I do next?' Pat replied, 'Wait till the pain dies down.'
Bob Hope
#63. She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow she was hurrying down the stairs, dressed in shadowhunter gear, the letter in one hand and the chain with the ring clasped hastily around her throat.
Cassandra Clare
#64. People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.
Conor Oberst
#65. Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we're left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.
Sandra Oh
#66. No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next.
Orson Scott Card
#67. I contemplate the bones for a while then turn away. I have work to do. Next year I will have an odako that is bigger, grander, more beautiful than anyone has ever seen. Next year.
Stan Sakai
#68. I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.
Eric Kandel
#69. The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#70. She parked near the fence and took a deep breath. Curious, she did it
again, feeling her lungs expand, then contract. She sat in silence,
letting her body decide what to do next. Her lungs stayed still, but she
didn't feel as though she was suffocating.
"Yep, dead," she whispered.
Rhiannon Frater
#71. Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do next, I would advise him to get out of science. After two years of work, if a man does not know what to do next, he will never make a real scientist.
Ernest Rutherford
#72. It's OK if you don't know how much more you can handle. It's fine if you don't know what to do next. Eventually, you'll let go of how things should be and start to see possibility based on reality. It's YOUR life, grasp the steering wheel and force yourself to pay attention to where you're going.
Wendy Keller
#73. I live a normal life. But I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next, musically. 'Do I need a fresh producer? What was Peter Gabriel doing when he was 32?'
Brandon Flowers
#74. I leaned my head back on the couch and closed my eyes. "I'm not sure what to do next. How are you as a sounding board?"
"I can look interested and nod at appropriate moments," he said.
"Good enough," I said.
Jim Butcher
#75. When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.
Kurt Russell
#76. I've always moved by my heart. I've moved by the spirit of what I feel was right for me next. I always pray and ask God: 'What's the next thing? What am I supposed to do next?'
Ricky Skaggs
#77. I just look at what's the most fun thing I can do next. I'm not looking to prove anything, or to break out or to break away. I feel so lucky, honestly, that I'm still working.
Lucy Lawless
#78. Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
Henri Nouwen
#79. I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.
Emmitt Smith
#80. He knew what the thing was going to do next. It was going to climb the hood slowly, toying with them before crushing in the windshield and eating them all alive.
Melissa Eskue Ousley
#81. I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.
Heath Ledger
#82. The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?
Evalyn Walsh McLean
#83. I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next.
John Allison
#84. What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if the markets abhor anything, it is uncertainty. Expect bond and stock market volatility to increase from here until the inflation outlook solidifies.
Scott Anderson
#85. When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.
Frederick Lenz
#86. We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'
Bobby Womack
#87. There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough.
George Eliot
#88. The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
W. H. Auden
#89. A question that I can't answer is: what do you want to do next? What's your dream role? What are you really looking to do? Where do you see yourself? It doesn't make any sense because that's such an outsider's perspective.
Kristen Stewart
#90. God cares more about your obedience to His Spirit's leading TODAY than what you will do next year.
Francis Chan
#91. Now, are you happy? Have you finally achieved all you set out to do? What will you do next, little assassin, with no one left to see you?
- One Thousand Journeys of Al Akhar, various authors
Marie Lu
#92. Quickly ducking, I fall to the ground while taking grip on the table. Hearing the axe get stuck into the wall on the other side, I slyly crane my neck to see what he was going to do next.
Ashley Ehlers
#93. If every customer is using your product "correctly", you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
Aaron Levie
#94. I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#95. One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'
John Burnside
#96. A show is like having a climax. It's like having an incredible, natural climax. And then suddenly it's all finished, and you don't know what to do next.
Rod Stewart
#97. Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.
Ben Whishaw
#98. Sanguine took a moment, finding it hard to process the information. He ... this guy uses a wand? For real? He actually uses a wand? Like a wizard? ... Don't the other Necromancers have any sense of pride? What's he gonna do next, fly around on a broomstick? This ain't Harry Potter.
Derek Landy
#99. You do not know what you are going to do,the only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing ... It is this attitude that keeps you in perpetual wonder-you do not know what God is going to do next.
Oswald Chambers
#100. The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next.
Glendon Swarthout
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