Quotes About Do What You Want To Do

#1. Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

Sam Altman

#2. The message of this band [All Time Low] is go out and do what you want to do and believe in yourself and that it's okay to do that. It's okay to be who you are.

Alex Gaskarth

#3. First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.

Jay Maisel

#4. Your desire to do what you want to do has to be greater than the world's desire to stop you.

Mark Pauline

#5. Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do.

Robert Kiyosaki

#6. One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!

C. Moorer

#7. Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Lydia Davis

#8. Do what you want to do in life and you will see what life will do to you on earth. What you always do, pays what it always pays!

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. Don't you let fear have a place in your life, J. Not even a tiny place. Get rid of it from every hidden corner. Chase it away with the truth, and do what you want to do while you can.

Ryan Winfield

#10. I love women like Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, who kind of go out on a limb and do their own thing. I find it very inspiring and it allows you to do what you want to do.

Malin Akerman

#11. In our world, to do what you want to do, you must first do what you have to do.

Anirudh Arun

#12. I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.

Art Pepper

#13. The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Leontyne Price

#14. On the surface, everyday life has become much more comfortable than ever before. Yet people still lead lives of quiet desperation. The source of this desperation is repression, a sense that you cannot be what you want to be, cannot feel what you want to feel, cannot do what you want to do.

Deepak Chopra

#15. Prosperity is the ability to do what you want to do at
the instant you want to do it.

Raymond Charles Barker

#16. You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Boris Vallejo

#17. Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

Usher

#18. What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.

Arthur Mitchell

#19. I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

Dan Savage

#20. Be who you want to be - be free in your own skin, be liberated and feel beautiful, and do what you want to do without judgement

Adam Lambert

#21. Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

Denzel Washington

#22. Do what you want to do, but don't try to do anything.

A.D. Aliwat

#23. You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it
don't plan anything, just go out and do it.

Jack Kerouac

#24. You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

W. Clement Stone

#25. I think it's really important to do what you want to do because in the long-run it's your career, you want everything to go well and you want to be happy with what you're doing. It was really important for me to take control of my career.

Cher Lloyd

#26. You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.

Rob Zombie

#27. Is that what you think? Passion begets passion?" "Yes," she says. "It is. I think when you take steps to do what you want to do and be who you want to be, then the rest starts falling into place.

Aidan Donnelley Rowley

#28. If you want to do what you want to do, you cannot work. So art is going to be finished, and this is the will of the Islamic republic: to not have any artists or art and close the doors of all the cinemas and music and everything.

Golshifteh Farahani

#29. To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

Maya Lin

#30. They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.

Bob Marley

#31. Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

James Surowiecki

#32. You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.

Tony Robbins

#33. There are times where you can't always get paid to do the things you really want to do. What really epitomizes your dream job is the job that pays you to do what you want to do.

Phil Keoghan

#34. I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don't do what you want to do you die. That is the reality.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#35. You have to overcome negativity and make your dream reality. Even if your family & friends steer you in another directions, do what you want to do. They can't stop you unless you let them.

Greg Camp

#36. Do what you got to do now, so you can do what you want to do later

Denzel Washington

#37. The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#38. You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?

Ernest Hemingway,

#39. Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.

Lyle Lovett

#40. I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.

Zach Galifianakis

#41. It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I'm by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I'm on my way up. I feel like I'm going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it's real to do what you want to do.

Big Sean

#42. Have fun. Keep your integrity. Do what you want to do and stay true to that.

Jason Dohring

#43. Do what you want to do, And go where you're going to. Think for yourself 'Cause I won't be there with you.

George Harrison

#44. Don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, don't ostracize the gender in front of you.

Emma Watson

#45. You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

Dave Thomas

#46. If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

Linda Barnes

#47. Do what YOU want to do because if you don't, you are nothing but your own slave.-RVM

R.v.m.

#48. One word love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day you won't be able to resist.

Jack Sparrow

#49. If you really want to live,
Don't give a damn about
what others say or think
and just do what you want to do.
DO YOU!!!!

Jessica Fairweather

#50. I think there are [gay players] right now, and if they're looking for a window to just come out, I mean, now is the window. My view on it is, yes, I am a Christian, but to each his own. You do what you want to do.

Robert Griffin III

#51. - I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do ... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!
- Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

Robert A. Heinlein

#52. Don't let anyone tell you not to do what you want to do.

Brad Goreski

#53. Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

Oprah Winfrey

#54. I have very supportive parents who said, 'Go and do what you want to do. Home is always here for you, and if you don't like it out there, come back. You can always do something different.' So when you have an option like that, you are able to choose roles or choose the things you want to be in.

Michelle Yeoh

#55. You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.

Anne Roiphe

#56. You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

Dennis Prager

#57. Surround yourself with people who do what you want to do, and eventually you'll wake up to find yourself doing the same.

Justin Kan

#58. Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later. Do what you want to do, and with the people you love. Learn to appreciate time and make doing so a habit. And if you want to do nothing, then enjoy doing it well. Why do anything by half? Why live a life diluted? What's the use?

Carew Papritz

#59. Do what you want to do. Do what you like to do.

Lei Jun

#60. The only reason you should move to a new job is if you are not getting the opportunity to do what you want to do and what you believe you can do.

Lee Clow

#61. Don't waste time. Don't let a minute pass doing nothing or doing something that is not as per your Wish. Grab hold of each minute and do what you want to do.

R.v.m.

#62. Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life.

Haruki Murakami

#63. You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

Andy Grammer

#64. To me, true prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself. It is also the freedom to do what you want to do, when you want to do it. It is never an amount of money; it is a state of mind. Prosperity or lack of it is an outer expression of the ideas in your head.

Louise Hay

#65. A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

Gina Gershon

#66. It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.

Kim Cattrall

#67. My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

Anita Baker

#68. Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.

Karl Pilkington

#69. Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

Oprah Winfrey

#70. Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

Margaret Mead

#71. My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of 'if you are not hurting anyone, and you're not fucking with someone else's shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be able to just do what you want to do.' It's the freedom and the independence.

Adam Carolla

#72. Forget what you are supposed to do, do what you want to do.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#73. Celibacy is a terrible idea, adhered to by people who hate themselves and want everyone else to do the same. You should do what you want to do, you know.

Kevin Hearne

#74. Discipline is doing what you don't want to do so you can do what you want to do.

Jeff Fisher

#75. Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.

Ines De La Fressange

#76. I think there's a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what you want to do when you're an artist in any way, shape or form.

Dave Gahan

#77. I have the feeling, Liberty, that you're hoping for someone to give you permission to do what you want to do.

Lisa Kleypas

#78. At last some time for pleasure trips
And do what you want to do
The time to just take your time
It's toodle-oo to time that flew
Those plan A's and B's
Coming down of that dusty shelf;
it's your time now just for you
To do things for your self.

John Walter Bratton

#79. Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it.

Les Brown

#80. You have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got. Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to do with me".

Joyce Meyer

#81. Do what you have to do when you have to do it, so that you can do what you want to do when you want to do it.

M.K.

#82. People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'

Johnny Carson

#83. The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is -
they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ain't mean. They buy me everything I want, but it's now - you've-got-it-go-play-with-it. You've got a roomful of things. I-got-you-that-book-so-go-read-it.

Harper Lee

#84. I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be angry, but anger is not a plan. Here's what I want to do, and that's why I hope you will support me, because I think it will actually improve the lives of Americans."

Hillary Clinton

#85. I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.

Richard Paul Evans

#86. What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?

Jim Brown

#87. You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

Aaliyah

#88. You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. But I'm not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me.

Rachel Caine

#89. Do you really want to know what it's like, being a spy? Never sure to whom you're giving your allegiance, and knowing that most of your colleagues will die gruesomely, often by your hand? Fine. Let me show you.

Delilah S. Dawson

#90. The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if ... ?' I just come in and do it.

Lance Henriksen

#91. We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.

Thomas Wolfe

#92. That's what they do, psychopaths. They figure out your language, your currency, your needs, your dreams and fears. Then they figure out how to use those things to get what they want from you. Most

Lisa Unger

#93. Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

Olivia Thirlby

#94. Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says.

Art Alexakis

#95. I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

James A. Michener

#96. But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you.

James Jones

#97. I'm not sure what kind of love you mean, baby, but if you mean do I want you to be with me forever, that I can't bear the thought of being without you as my lover, my best friend, my whole world....one day my wife, and my baby mama, then yes, I Love you, Love you!

S.E. Hall

#98. Sorry, I just want a quick little summary of what you do."

Wick chuckled. "He already knows you're long-winded, mate."

Dov glared at him. "I'm sorry?"

Wick's smile split his face as he bumped his colleague with his shoulder and then turned to me.

Mary Calmes

#99. Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that a good enough reason?

Alice Munro

#100. But for the love of piss, make some sort of decision. If you don't want to eat babies and nail bloodbags to walls, that's your choice. What Sarren did or made you do in the past has nothing to do with it now. You're a vampire. Do whatever the hell you want.

Julie Kagawa