Top 100 For Doing Quotes
#1. If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible.
Ryan Gosling
#2. I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
Lucy Stone
#3. The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.
Napoleon Hill
#4. We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#5. The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.
James Balog
#6. I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world ... plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.
Edward R. Tufte
#7. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it
Andrew Carnegie
#8. When I was young, I liked to be acknowledged in class by little gestures such as a small red star for doing something good. Now that I'm older, I still want to be acknowledged for good work.
Chen Guangbiao
#9. It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.
Samir Okasha
#10. When 'Christians' cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why they believe Muslims in the Middle East are evil for doing the same with the Koran.
Kurt Eichenwald
#11. I'm sorry about what I said about the police," she said. "I know your friend works for them."
"You have reason," he said. "You don't know what they'll do, and when they become known for doing crazy things, you have no reason to trust them. That's their fault, not yours.
Zoe Ferraris
#12. As the actor, you can't go in saying, 'I'm the bad guy.' You've got to think your reasons for doing what you're doing are good.
Sendhil Ramamurthy
#13. Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.
Yusuf Hamied
#14. I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Earl Warren
#15. It's only now you're gone I see how you're my reason for doing things. Now I'm a stiltwalker with the stilts removed. My emptied trouser legs flap in the wind and I can't remember how to walk without being precipitously propped.
Sara Baume
#16. It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.
Karen Blixen
#17. You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.
Darin Strauss
#18. After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day.
Julie Chen
#20. You would probably think that rock music is an urban phenomena, but the main reason for doing it in '68 was so that we could play music very loud any time of the day or night without getting complaints from the neighbours.
Steve Winwood
#21. Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
Edward Abbey
#22. You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really popular or infamous for doing what they do and doing it well, I guess.
Amber Heard
#23. Baby, everybody got their own reasons for doing things they do in life. It don't matter what her reason was at the time, what matters is she come back for you, and even though you might think it's too late, it ain't never too late where a mother and her child is concerned.
Bernice L. McFadden
#24. When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.
Jill Scott
#25. I had a penchant myself for doing several things at once. I wanted to draw, write, speak.
Patti Smith
#26. Folks are funny. They can't stick to one way of thinking or doing anything unless they get a new reason for doing it ever so often.
William Faulkner
#27. One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
Rachel Kushner
#28. It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.
Richard Hofstadter
#29. Even if Douglas was trying to sacrifice me and harvest my creepy powers at the time, I feel like killing people for doing awful things is probably setting a bad precedent for dealing with negative behavior.
Lish McBride
#30. For doing so, and who prefer certainties to doubts. Join with those who are open and not afraid to be vulnerable: they understand that people can only improve once they start looking at what their fellows are doing, not in order to judge them, but to admire them for their dedication and courage.
Paulo Coelho
#31. There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
Moliere
#32. Find out what you like doing best and get somebody to pay you for doing it.
Katherine Whitehorn
#33. Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear
Oprah Winfrey
#34. The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#35. There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
Winslow Homer
#36. Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.
Oprah Winfrey
#37. Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives
George Bernard Shaw
#38. A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
H.L. Mencken
#39. One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.
Jonas Salk
#40. I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.
Famke Janssen
#41. I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and
unnecessary.
Edith Wharton
#42. People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.
William D. Cohan
#43. How are you feeling?' I asked. 'Fine,' he replied with a tired smile. 'Well done!' I replied, as I think patients need to be congratulated for their surviving just as much as the surgeons should be congratulated for doing their job well. 'It's
Henry Marsh
#44. Blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.
Ursula Curtiss
#45. In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe ... to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.
William The Silent
#46. If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#47. Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.
John Dewey
#48. I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me.
Eva Green
#49. I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing something that horrible when there are way more productive ways I could be spending my life. You've got to focus on moving on.
Augusten Burroughs
#50. But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.
Slavoj Zizek
#51. And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.
Little Richard
#53. I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.
Ravi Shankar
#54. When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the machines of Newton ... are means not for doing but for observing. He saw an effect, and he looked for its cause.
Jacob Bronowski
#55. The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'
Katharine Whitehorn
#56. I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.
Rick Riordan
#57. If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.
Thomas Paine
#58. I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.
Pierre Reverdy
#59. We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that.
Charles Bukowski
#60. Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.
Margaret Atwood
#61. It's unbelievable really. For something that started off as a hobby, I ended up getting paid for doing it.
Ricky Hatton
#62. Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.
Big Sean
#63. Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.
Gail Carriger
#64. People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.
Thomas L. Friedman
#65. Why, you don't seem even to know the good of the things you are constantly doing. Now don't mistake me. I don't mean you are good for doing them. It is a good thing to eat your breakfast, but you don't fancy it's very good of you to do it. The thing is good, not you.
George MacDonald
#66. The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Voltaire
#67. I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.
Steven Tyler
#68. Honey," Bessie's mamma used to say, "politicians and judges and coppers are money-grubbing thieves. They'll screw you, and rob you, and win elections for doing it, but there's no way around them. Smile and pay the sonsabitches off." The
Mary Doria Russell
#69. Human nature has been sold short ... [humans have] a higher nature which ... includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.
Abraham Maslow
#70. The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
J. Paul Getty
#71. My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.
John Krasinski
#72. I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
Kevin Kline
#73. So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
Will Rogers
#74. I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation.
Tony Kushner
#75. If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people.
Tucker Max
#76. [W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a world that would otherwise be brutal (think of life before modernity). On the contrary, we are good people for doing so.
John Christy
#77. Women saying, 'I'm not a feminist' is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist.
Lena Dunham
#78. Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
Gianni Versace
#79. There is also a third blessing that comes from spending time alone with God. When we spend time alone with Him, this releases all God's potential, His power, grace and anointing, all of which are so essential for doing work for the Kingdom of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#80. The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
Jane Jacobs
#81. According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.
Conan O'Brien
#82. Inspiration is an excuse for doing something you already want to do.
Lauren Kate
#83. You are my child. I am your mother." Helen sounded resolute. "I won't apologize for doing my job.
Karin Slaughter
#84. For me, awards are not what I really care about - the work is what I really care about. And, I am especially proud that I was acknowledged for doing work that I was so proud of and that meant a lot to me.
Michael Cerveris
#85. She felt whatever emotions she felt, but feeling was never a useful substitute for doing, and she never let the former get in the way of the latter. If anything, she used her emotions to motivate her and help her concentrate. The emphasis for her was always on doing what needed to be done.
Will Schwalbe
#86. If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.
Clint Eastwood
#87. Welfare recipients are often perceived as getting money for doing nothing.13 However, decades of on-the-ground studies of welfare recipients have shown that the program has extracted at least a psychic price.
Sarah Halpern-Meekin
#88. People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
Barbara Deming
#89. The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability to obtain information to track down terrorists when it has sufficient justification and support for doing so.
Ted Cruz
#90. The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.
Robin Sharma
#91. But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork'. Thus scientific research is a worshipful act, in that it reveals more of the wonders of God's creation.
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
#92. Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don't you think? For doing terrible things to other people.
Jennifer McMahon
#93. Women, as usual, were expected to behave better than men, and inevitably attracted criticism for doing things that men were licensed to do with impunity.
Alexander McCall Smith
#94. My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music ... I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.
Ziggy Marley
#95. Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.
Samuel Smiles
#96. I'm making 20 times more with Vessel for doing the same amount of work, if not less, than with YouTube.
Anna Akana
#97. There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.
James Daly
#98. A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you're going to regret it.
Carroll Bryant
#99. Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.
Dan Jenkins
#100. There is nothing shameful about loving someone. There is only shame in making them feel bad for doing so.
Shannon L. Alder
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