Top 100 Doing At Quotes
#1. People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.
David Allen
#2. Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he THINK he was doing at the time?
Billy Connolly
#3. I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
#4. In Sicily it doesn't matter whether things are done well or done badly; the sin which we Sicilians never forgive is simply that of 'doing' at all.
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
#5. A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium. It's an anxiety about keeping up, about not being left out or getting behind.
Rebecca Solnit
#6. I am a true psychic. In my family it's the norm. My sister and mother are always 'in my head' and say or do the same things I'm doing at the same time.
Franny Armstrong
#7. Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.
Reginald Horace Blyth
#8. They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
Rick Springfield
#9. Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.
Tim Walker
#10. After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.
Joe Flanigan
#11. Adults always ask kids how they are doing at school. The one subject kids absolutely hate talking about. You don't even want to talk about school when you are at school.
David Walliams
#12. And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. The interesting thing with me is that there has never been a woman doing what I'm doing at this level for this long. So, it's like, would Vince give me maternity leave?
Trish Stratus
#13. What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.
Brigid Schulte
#14. I have to do what I'm doing at the time. That's the most important thing. You might lose some people along the way, and you might gain other people on the way, that's just the way it is. But nevertheless, if you're driven by something, there is no argument about it; that's what you have to do.
Paul Weller
#15. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert Benchley
#16. I liked the whole process of creating on set. It's almost like creating magic. The work that the camera guys are doing at the same time, the lighting ... all of the people working in their departments to make one thing.
Stephanie Sigman
#17. The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.
Fritz Weaver
#18. When I get a script and do my work, and then show up on set and work, it's the same zone that I'm in when I'm in front of a canvas, or when I'm writing a story about one of my paintings, or when I'm playing music. Whatever I'm doing at any given time, it's the same exact zone.
Michael Marisi Ornstein
#19. How you doing at 26 Fed?"
"I'm growing and learning, meeting new challenges with confidence and enthusiasm while developing good work ethics and people skills."
"I'm surprised they haven't fired your ass."
"Me too.
Nelson DeMille
#20. I'm excited about the opportunities with mobile phones and being able to receive information on the go and relevant to what I'm doing at that moment in time.
Susan Wojcicki
#21. Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.
Jennie Finch
#22. The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#23. I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#24. I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.
Amy Engel
#25. I honestly don't think that I am cool enough or important enough that anyone would care about what I am doing at all hours of the day like "I just had a latte from Starbucks and now I am going to Barney's. Love me some shoes!"
Megan Fox
#26. Magdalena doesn't ask what Rebecka is doing at the hospital. That's how Rebecka realizes that Magdalena knows. It's the things you don't say. That's what always gives a person away.
Asa Larsson
#27. I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.
Thomas Keller
#28. She hoped he wouldn't ask what she was doing at the party. If she had to say she was a poet, her present situation, her overindulgence, would be taken as drearily typical.
Alice Munro
#29. I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.
Jamie Bell
#30. Anything that can't be done in bed isn't worth doing at all.
Groucho Marx
#31. When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.
Saoirse Ronan
#32. When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And, in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.
Neil Diamond
#33. My passion lies with whatever I'm doing at the time ... I only see what is front of me.
Cher
#34. I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.
Gail Devers
#35. ...A thing that is worth doing at all is worth doing badly... le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.
Beverley Nichols
#36. Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.
Garrett Hedlund
#37. O-suzu left whatever work she was doing at her sewing machine and dragged Takeo back to O-yoshi and her son.
How dare you behave so selfishly! Now tell O-yoshi-san that you are sorry. Get down on the mats and make a proper bow!
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#38. The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.
Ali Khamenei
#39. A government that trusts its people is powerful only if the people also trust their government. A government that does not trust its people is only powerful if it knows exactly what everyone is doing at all times.
Chris Dietzel
#40. I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.
Jim Foglesong
#41. The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
Gore Vidal
#42. Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.
Evelyn Glennie
#43. And when I found out they had, I came back. What do you think I was doing at the alliance?" "Having drinks, by the looks of it," he snarked,
Kim Harrison
#44. When I watch a movie that I've been in, I'm watching it, but I usually remember what I was doing at that time, what was going on in my life.
Dennis Quaid
#45. When I look for the next project, it's always about, 'Is it going to push me out of my comfort zone? Am I doing something different? Am I working with people who are passionate about what they're doing?' At the end of the day, if I'm going to be bored on set, then I'm not gonna be happy.
Amanda Crew
#46. word is like a sword; you should be wise when to use it or it'll kill and ruin everything you did in your past, you're doing at this time, and you're gonna do in the future
A. Vaidyanathan
#47. I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.
Peter Morgan
#48. I'm a little bit shy and from the Midwest, so to be so open and honest with millions of people is pretty difficult. To have people constantly having an eye on you and very interested in what you're doing at all times - it can be a little stressful at times.
Connor Franta
#49. Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.
Edwidge Danticat
#50. But he didn't hold me when we slept. We didn't make love. He didn't curl his fingers around my breast in the unconscious but still possessive way Max was doing at that very moment.
Kristen Ashley
#51. We supped at our pints, imagining a whale fighting a giant squid, probably just as thousands of other men in pubs across the land were doing at that moment.
Danny Wallace
#52. I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
Gavin MacLeod
#53. What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.
Matsuo Basho
#54. If I want to know how I'm doing at work, I don't wait for a pat on the back; I ask the people who will give me a clear, objective opinion. When I need a real, arms-wrapped-around-me hug, I go to someone who does that. I stopped getting disappointed by my expectations from non-huggers.
Chandra Wilson
#55. Only the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I was doing at the time, because I was always drunk when I checked in.
William Eggleston
#56. To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions. They alienate you from the true reality of any action you perform.
Frederick Lenz
#57. I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.
Gabriel Campisi
#58. Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.
Franz Kafka
#59. Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well." ~Lord Chesterfield, Letter to His God Son
Dawn Flowers
#60. If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
Evelyn Waugh
#61. Yeah what were you doing at Wrestlemania? Ohhhh yeeeeah I'd like to know. You weren't there to gloat were you? No I guess you weren't.
Randy Savage
#62. I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.
Eugene Levy
#63. You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was doing at times and at other times I looked like a twenty handicap player.
Arnold Palmer
#64. As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.
Vanessa Paradis
#65. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
Ram Dass
#66. Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
Maurice Sendak
#67. To be in flow means to be totally absorbed in whatever one is doing at the moment. It occurs when one is fully present and completely focused on the task at hand ... Flow can occur during any human activity, whether work or at play.
Dalai Lama
#68. And I said, "I needed to sit down and be quiet and think." And he said, "OK, let's keep it simple. What are you doing at the railway station?" And I said, "I'm going to see Mother." And he said, "Mother?
Mark Haddon
#69. I'm always most excited about the job I'm doing at the present, and that's especially true about 'Price' because of my respect for the show and it's production team.
Randy West
#70. Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
Bernadette Devlin
#71. DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing ... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
Nas
#72. Dove turned and gave him a "what the fuck are you doing - at least you're wearing pants, fudge dick" look.
Debra Anastasia
#73. I am not one of those actors who dwells on the histrionics and the subtext and future text of the character. I deal with the scenes that I'm doing at that specific time, because if I do that, they play in more of a real way.
John Barrowman
#74. I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.
Kesha
#75. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#76. I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.
Maura Tierney
#77. I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.
John Deacon
#78. Knowing that what you are doing is the most important thing for you to be doing at that moment is surprisingly powerful.
Daniel J. Levitin
#79. Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.
Amy Carmichael
#80. A lot of the things I was doing on YouTube nobody was doing at the time, and now everybody is doing them, and I think making movies - I know a few Youtubers have done it, and hopefully this movie does well and more YouTubers want to take a risk and make movies, and I'm excited about it.
Shane Dawson
#81. If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.
Colum McCann
#82. The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
Richard L. Evans
#83. I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.
Edward De Bono
#84. I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.
Malcolm Turnbull
#85. Men and women were doing at their unsurpassed when they were together. It was more or less like the sky and the ground; diverse in nature and was miles apart but they complete each other.
Diyar Harraz
#86. If I had a spouse and two kids to support I certainly would not be telling 'jokes' like he was doing at a conference.
Jon Ronson
#88. You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.
Gary Cole
#89. You start getting hit with some very interesting situations in life - you as a parent - when they approach that teenage area, which is frightening because you still have memories of that age and the things you were doing at that age ... Please don't do what I did.
Johnny Depp
#90. Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.
Lesley Gore
#91. Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.
Joan Sutherland
#92. True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.
David J. Lieberman
#93. What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? How can you create something people want?
Max McKeown
#94. The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.
Ben Silbermann
#95. Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom.
Mary Slessor
#96. I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.
Monica Keena
#97. Firstly, phone calls constitute the most direct invasion of someone's space outside of actual physical contact. It strikes me that there is something downright arrogant about expecting someone to drop literally everything they are doing at a specific moment in order to attend to your voice,
Rebecca Davis
#98. The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.
Lucinda Williams
#99. Only some things are worth doing well. Most things that are worth doing are only worth doing sloppily. Many things aren't worth doing at all. Anything not worth doing at all is certainly not worth doing well.
Carol Deppe
#100. Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing ... Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.
Mark Kingwell
