Top 100 Do Things Quotes
#1. Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.
Eliot Spitzer
#2. If you want to live a life you've never lived, you have to do things you've never done. I
Jen Sincero
#3. I just hope to work with great people, and do things that are challenging for me and that I can be proud of and not have to hide my face about. Those are my guidelines.
Andre Holland
#4. Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.
Chris Hadfield
#5. I won't do things for money. I can't. So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There's a really cool diner down the street from my house. They make really good pancakes; I'd be happy doing that.'
Brie Larson
#6. Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
Robert A. Heinlein
#7. We do things with language, produce effects with language, and we do things to language, but language is also the thing that we do. Language is a name for our doing: both "what" we do (the name for the action that we characteristically perform) and that which we effect, the act and its consequences.
Judith Butler
#8. I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.
Dennis Ritchie
#9. A lot of people preach and talk, but I think the only way to preach is to actually do things.
Kiesza
#10. My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.
Chelsea Handler
#11. Parents are always trying to make you do things for your own good. Not boyfriends. With boyfriends, the relationship is supposed to be equal. They're supposed to let you make your own decisions.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#12. People like 'Crank,' some people like 'Redemption.' I'm just happy to do things that satiate a different part of me, that test me a little bit.
Jason Statham
#13. We are not used to persons who do things simply for the love of god whom they don't believe in.
Ayn Rand
#14. When you do things for others; don't expect your good deeds to be returned. Do it because you enjoy making someone's day.
Rita Zahara
#15. With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty
Alan Moore
#16. Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.
Bill Gates
#17. I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.
Darren Aronofsky
#18. We cant change who we are, but we can change the way we do things.
Edwin Medina
#19. I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.
David Blaine
#20. We need the vision of interbeing - we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of "this" is the well-being of "that," so we have to do things together. Every side is "our side"; there is no evil side.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#21. We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.
Willa Cather
#22. The right thing to do usually comes straight from your gut. When you work fast, you tend to work more from the gut, because your mind simply doesn't have as much time to justify an easier way to do things.
Larry Winget
#23. This wasn't how they talked. They threw things at each other. Insults, jokes, sometimes even remotes. They made war and made peace and made up and made out. They didn't do things like set ground rules. They didn't do feelings talk. They didn't get it out in the open.
Kami Garcia
#24. Strong leaders encourage you to do things for your own benefit, not just theirs.
Tim Tebow
#25. At home, I don't like to be just sitting around; I like to go out and do things. It's when I'm the happiest.
Erin Heatherton
#26. When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses
that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.
Ridley Pearson
#27. They spoke of destiny and how sometimes we were chosen to do things that others were to weak to do.
Kira Saito
#28. A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#29. You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or athletics takes you years before you develop a skill. But if you work at it, practicing daily, you can enable your body to do things that are utterly impossible to an untrained physic.
Karen Armstrong
#30. I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
Pablo Picasso
#31. I just do things I really enjoy. I enjoy acting. When I'm driving to the studio, I sing in the car. I love my work and my wife and my kids and my friends. And I think, 'You're a lucky man, Gregory Peck, a damn lucky man.'
Gregory Peck
#32. My parents want to do things differently. Dad's big on treaties.'
'And your mother?' Isabeau inquired.
'She's big on making grown men cry.
Alyxandra Harvey
#33. She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authority, so she would not have thought it necessary to ask Mrs. Medlock if she might walk about the house, even if she had seen her.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#34. Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.
Patricia C. Wrede
#35. I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
Vivienne Westwood
#36. I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.
Jeffrey Skoll
#37. There was so much life wrapped up in that pony's hide that it was mighty hard for him to settle down and behave...he sometimes had to bust out and do things that wasn't at all proper...
Will James
#38. I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.
Catherine Hardwicke
#39. What I learned was there are hormones, and most people are sexual. They may go through stages where they might do things where they go above and beyond, but this is something else.
Stuart Blumberg
#40. you want attention only after you're doing really good work. There's no pressure when you're unknown. You can do what you want. Experiment. Do things just for the fun of it. When you're unknown, there's nothing to distract you from getting better.
Austin Kleon
#41. There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this can happen, you can be seduced by evil. We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. We have to acknowledge it. Then we can change it.
Philip Zimbardo
#43. I think thas true but love doesmake us do things we regret
Anonymous
#44. We're going to do things beyond waterboarding perhaps, if that happens to come.
Donald Trump
#45. I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#46. I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.
Robert Nozick
#47. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
Ernest Hemingway,
#48. 'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied.
Lewis Carroll
#49. I think everybody makes mistakes. People do things that they regret.
Nick Saban
#50. I've always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#51. I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.
Shari Arison
#52. I must tell you I've just been reborn."
"Nicholas, you always think you can do things better than your mother. You can be sure you were born quite adequately on the first occasion.
Christopher Fry
#53. I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'
Aaron Levie
#54. I know that when you talk about something that may hurt someone, reactions are normal, and you are touching some nerves ... But I don't do things because people always like what I do.
Pierfrancesco Favino
#55. Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job.
Robin Williams
#56. We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
Bernie Siegel
#57. I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that?
Beatrice Sparks
#58. To acquire things you've never had you have to do things you've never done.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#59. You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind forever and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#61. I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.
Ricky Gervais
#62. The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about.
Andy Borowitz
#63. Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.
Steven D. Levitt
#64. I've never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason.
Jude Law
#65. I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.
John Barrowman
#66. We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slake our thirst.
William Hill
#67. The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.
Donald Trump
#68. Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.
Renzo Piano
#69. Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.
Zooey Deschanel
#70. I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.
Jack Antonoff
#71. I know I can't do things like love by halves, I know I have love pent up in me, I shall throw myself away, lose my heart and my body and my mind and soul to some cad like G.P. Who'll betray me. I feel it.
John Fowles
#72. There is much sorrow, not only of the dramatic kind but also in the way that difficult economic circumstances wear people down, eroding them, preying on their weaknesses, until they do things that they themselves find hateful, until they are shadows of their best selves.
Teju Cole
#73. One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#74. All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs more in line, and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards.
N. Murray Edwards
#75. We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.
Craig Venter
#76. I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
Wallace Shawn
#77. But it's God who gives us the ability to do things, even to gain wealth; and we must remember that what we do is only successful when we do it - His Way.
David Jeremiah
#78. You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things.
Lita Ford
#79. Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.
Robert Griffin III
#80. Why are you in such a rush? Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.
Tove Jansson
#81. We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it's not good for human flourishing. We want people to do things that are good for human flourishing. But that's not what sends you to heaven or Hell.
Timothy Keller
#82. I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well.
Jim Abbott
#83. In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.
Colin Angle
#84. I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
Padmasree Warrior
#85. The key to digital effects is to do things that are visually accurate but done cheaply and approximated.
Masi Oka
#86. Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it.
Jessica Chastain
#87. The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
Mark Cane
#88. Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
James D. Watson
#89. I just like to build things and do things.
Andrew Mason
#90. Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.
Henry Ford
#91. I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.
Little Richard
#92. There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.
Alex Steffen
#93. Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.
Ann Hood
#94. I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.
J. C. Watts
#95. Unpaid internships are worse than slavery," Gabby said. I looked at her, unsure of what she meant. "They make us work ridiculous hours, for free, and they make us do things an employee would do. It's a scam, and worse, they make you feel like they're doing YOU a favor. It's such mindfuckery.
Teresa Lo
#96. If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.
Anthony Hopkins
#97. Don't tell me what to feel. All my fucking life, people have been telling me I do things wrong. I'm always the fucking asshole. I look around and I see everybody else is infinitely more fucked up than I am.
Hank Moody
#98. I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.
Danielle Dax
#99. Regardless of how badly you handled yesterday, today provides a fresh opportunity to do things right!
Richard Blackaby
#100. You're trapped both ways. You do as you are told and you do things that you think will make you big, but all the time you're shrinking.
Helen Dunmore
