Quotes About Do Something

#1. It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.

Lykke Li

#2. Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of hope in it. And then for some reason we came up with a romantic comedy.

Susanne Bier

#3. I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

Chris Hughes

#4. I had no doubt that I could do something, but what, and how? I had no contacts and I believed in nothing. And the obsession with my identity which I had developed in the factory hospital returned with a vengeance. Who was I, how had I come to be?

Ralph Ellison

#5. We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.

Lucy Larcom

#6. The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#7. Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Richard P. Feynman

#8. In the middle of the night, if you have decided to do something good for the world, don't wait for the morning to come!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.

Astro Teller

#10. As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane' ... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?

Nancy Bird Walton

#11. My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

Mick Jagger

#12. Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.

Meghan Daum

#13. I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else ... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.

Diana Vreeland

#14. I've wished for things and never really had the chance ... It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then ... go.

Deb Caletti

#15. You don't ever do something just because it makes you feel good?" The assistant shrugs. "Mademoiselle, you need to spend more time in Paris.

Jojo Moyes

#16. There are a lot of people that get interested in something, and they hear about it, and they read about it, and then they watch it happen, and that's why I had quite an interest in the lottery because you'd interest a lot of people, and then just a few would win a chance to do something.

Buzz Aldrin

#17. We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things.

Robert M. Edsel

#18. If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

George Bernard Shaw

#19. I'm not going to pick her up and carry her screaming to the basement," Trent said. "It's a workday. Besides, she has a crutch."
"Crutch or no, she's hurt!" Ceri protested.
"I mean," Trent said intently, "she can hit me with it if I do something she doesn't like.

Kim Harrison

#20. Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

Lou Holtz

#21. When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

Casey Affleck

#22. I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it

Vivien Leigh

#23. If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to reborn with creative abilities!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. I knew I was going to do something great. I knew I wasn't going to die 20 miles from where I was born, no 20 miles from where I lived.

Adrian Robinson

#25. You can't do something forever.

Bob Dylan

#26. Going over to Lesvos in Greece and meeting some of these poor refugees who have just made the treacherous sea crossing opened my eyes in a way I can't even being to describe. It's put a fire in my belly to really try to do something, the little I can do.

Douglas Booth

#27. Without good personal brands, whatever you do may not be accepted and patronized; without any brand at all, you may do something great which will not be known.

Israelmore Ayivor

#28. It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

Vanessa Paradis

#29. I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.

Martina Mcbride

#30. I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

Michael Apted

#31. I have always seen myself as an athlete. Of course, I made the mistake of unintentionally opening the door to my private life by just a crack. I wouldn't do the same thing again. It has to be accepted that my private life is private, and if that isn't the case, I have to do something about it.

Oliver Kahn

#32. The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

Douglas Fairbanks

#33. If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#34. It's all mental management. Whether you can do something or not is in your head.

Kris Carr

#35. I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

#36. It's not every day you do something that's never been done before.

Sean Elliott

#37. Whatever you find to be very difficult for you, believe it that it's never difficult if you do something little about it every day!

Israelmore Ayivor

#38. I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.

Cynthia Ozick

#39. If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#40. I love you until you do something to piss me off. Then I turn into your personal Satan.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#41. I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

Gary Hume

#42. Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it's exciting, and if you do it every day it's exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it's not good any more.

Andy Warhol

#43. I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.

Ja Rule

#44. I can't imagine a duller fate than being the best dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something I don't pause to contemplate whether I'm exquisitely gowned. I want to live, not pose!

Carole Lombard

#45. Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

Bill Hybels

#46. You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.

Jonah Hill

#47. We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked.

David Brier

#48. If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.

Halle Berry

#49. To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else
these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Mark Twain

#50. Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Richard Preston

#51. I'm a Thelemite. I believe in Thelema, which is Crowley's so-called religion. There are some practitioners here who do something called the Gnostic Mass. I've been to that a few times, but basically, I'm a loner. I don't really need other people.

Kenneth Anger

#52. Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.

Mel Gibson

#53. Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.

Ha-Joon Chang

#54. Don't ask people to do something you wouldn't.

Guy Kawasaki

#55. If you want to feel loving, I coached myself, do something loving. This is basic soul care.

Anne Lamott

#56. Play hard, work hard, love hard ... The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of a hoped-for hereafter, and make every day count in some meaningful way and do something-no matter how small it is-to make the world a better place.

Michael Shermer

#57. But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

Dabney Coleman

#58. I just like to enjoy life and push myself. Of course, there is method to my madness. When you are entering into a new industry, for example, it helps to do something to get your name on the front pages.

Richard Branson

#59. I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just need time, as I've learned over and over again. You've got to wait before you write about them.

Joyce Carol Oates

#60. I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.

Tove Lo

#61. I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory, and I knew I had to do something remarkable.

Stacey Snider

#62. You have to understand the purpose of life, the purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

Yogi Bhajan

#63. It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death.

Peter Thiel

#64. Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Lou Holtz

#65. We will never know everything. But I think if we can learn within the next few decades to face the danger we all are in, I believe there will be tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of human beings working wherever they are to do something good.

Pete Seeger

#66. I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

Barry McGee

#67. Compassion is sympathy for others specifically in the case of their suffering. Although it is uncomfortable, we are willing to feel the suffering of others and to do something about it when we can,

Norman Fischer

#68. I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

Lily Tomlin

#69. When do you do things for the love of it? Always. If you're not feeling that, go do something else. Life is too short.

Raph Koster

#70. You see, my buddies had a freedom I no longer had. All I wanted was to do something normal and skateboard with the guys, but i knew that if I went downstairs to join them it would create total chaos.

Justin Bieber

#71. I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

Anna Sui

#72. I'd like to feel okay all the time
to have the ability to sit and function without feeling so much pressure, without feeling as though blood is going to spurt from my eyes and fingers and toes if I don't do something.

Matthew Quick

#73. People were like, "Oh maybe we can change your teeth" and I thought that was going a bit far. You have to be really strong in this job and realise that you are your own boss and if someone tells you to do something, you don't have to do it. I really like my teeth.

Lara Stone

#74. I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

Masuji Ibuse

#75. You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do something difficult, doing it first for himself. That's my definition of sincerity.

Neige

#76. Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.

Sammy Cahn

#77. Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

Pearl Bailey

#78. We can't do everything at once, but, by God, we can do something at once! Changing

Andy Andrews

#79. I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.

James McAvoy

#80. You know," he said. He paused a minute, as though picking his words carefully. "It's okay to disappoint people sometimes. It's okay for us to say no simply because we don't want to do something." Intellectually,

Lisa Unger

#81. Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Vance Packard

#82. Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way.

Paul Singer

#83. For geniuses, they are really dumb," she said. "Some of them are really pampered: They can't even put together a cardboard box. They don't think you do something. They think you call somebody.

Michael Lewis

#84. I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about.

Alton Brown

#85. I would love to do something with Coldplay.

Natasha Bedingfield

#86. If you do something, expect consequences.

Larry King

#87. It's fun, I didn't have enough money as a kid to buy a drum set, so I had to do something. I would mimic the sounds. That was it. And it worked. It worked for years.

John DiMaggio

#88. I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

Earl Campbell

#89. Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Sheldon Richman

#90. Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us.
The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.

Vance Havner

#91. I think every woman would want to do something about their cellulite!

Tyra Banks

#92. Have you ever found yourself saying, "There ought to be a law against this," or, "Somebody should do something"? Well, here's the good news - you can be the one to do something. You can be the one to make the law.

Victoria Stoklasa MA

#93. Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of - until you find out you've got it. Once you realize you're ignorant, if you don't do something about it, then you have the right to feel ashamed.

Daniel Pinkwater

#94. All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.

Bruce Coville

#95. They'd be complaining about having to walk, and screeching at me to 'do something, Freddy, do something!'"
"But what could you do?" she said, puzzled.
"Carry them, probably." He gave her a hopeful look. "Do you want me to carry you?

Anne Gracie

#96. I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.

Ray Charles

#97. I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.

Christina Milian

#98. You're always sorry 'after' you do something. You never think about how they feel or how you'd feel 'before'.

Cecelia Ahern

#99. I will not believe that if I do something then I have to follow a certain path because it was written for normal people. People who aren't special. People who don't have tiger blood and Adonis DNA.

Charlie Sheen

#100. I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.

Mike Huckabee