Top 100 Quotes About Doing Anything
#1. I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be in military service - it can be anything you're doing with someone that matters. You develop a bond.
Stanley A. McChrystal
#2. I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.
Daniel Radcliffe
#3. I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.
Ryan Kwanten
#4. There is only one reason that you ever fail at anything ... and that is because you eventually change your mind. That's it! ... anything and everything you have ever decided to do, you have succeeded, or will succeed, at doing.
Victor L. Wooten
#5. In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
Leo Szilard
#7. The only alternative seems to be doing nothing ... and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything
Cassandra Clare
#8. You're not bothering me. I'm not doing anything. Well, I was breathing, and my heart was beating. But the rest of me wasn't busy.
Emma Bull
#9. Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our whipping boy to camouflage the fact that we - you and I and other specific human beings just like us - have to start doing things differently. "They" can't fix anything. We can.
Price Pritchett
#11. For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.
Pablo Picasso
#12. It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
Gary Kemp
#13. I reflected, not for the first or last time, that when you are reading, others think they can disturb you because you are not doing anything.
James Tipton
#14. If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.
John Holt
#15. ... once you start demonizing groups of people, when you make them the other, you can justify doing just about anything you want to the, can't you? Look at history if you don't believe me.
Brunonia Barry
#16. Go lie down" I told them. You're both exhausted, and we're not doing anything else tonight. Get some rest.
Puck snorted "My, aren't we bossy today," he said though it lack his over energy. "Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head."
(Meghan & Puck)
Julie Kagawa
#17. Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#18. We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.
R.A. Torrey
#19. Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught.
Jack LaLanne
#20. You are not here to fix anything, because nothing is broken, but everything is continually changing and expanding. Release your struggle, and seek joy and fun, and in doing so, you will align with the fantastic expanding rhythm of this Universe.
Esther Hicks
#21. If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.
Jeremy London
#22. It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
Patrick Marber
#23. He's finding out, he's doing all right, he'll go to school but nobody's going to teach him anything.
William, Saroyan
#24. Tap dancers find it very difficult to do anything other than tap if that is all they have been trained in because, again, it's a whole different ballgame that you're constantly working on - bent legs, loose ankles - which you cannot afford to do when you're doing jumps or anything else.
Nigel Lythgoe
#25. Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.
Alexandra Potter
#26. I love when brides tell me they want to do something special and unique, but I'm not a fan of doing anything too crazy.
Austin Scarlett
#27. What's the point of doing anything if it's easy? It's so much more valuable when a challenge has to be overcome.
Scott Hamilton
#28. Do not expect a harvest if you haven't sown anything! God loves people who are hardworking, who are always doing something. He helps doers
Sunday Adelaja
#29. If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.
Nat Wolff
#30. My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my daughter went to produce a soundtrack for a movie, there would be nothing extraordinary about a girl doing it. When I did it, it was highly unusual.
Ronee Blakley
#31. All the decisions you makehow many of those decisions are based on you doing simply what's right in your own eyes, and how many times specifically have you gone to Scripture looking for the answer, with regard to anything?
Paul Washer
#32. You must love her very much to be willing to do all this." He twisted his head slightly and held her gaze. "I'm not doing anything for her that I've not done for her before.
Lorraine Heath
#33. I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.
Robert Rauschenberg
#34. I like Oprah. I could sit around and make vision boards all day, but I wouldn't actually get anything done if I were to concentrate on my feelings rather than doing.
Jen Lancaster
#35. Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
Adam Pally
#36. You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.
Billy Crystal
#37. I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my current state, I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to go back in time to fix things.
Megan McCafferty
#38. Yes is what I like doing more than anything else. Somewhere along the way, as people came and went, it fell to me to kind of keep it going and oversee the spirit of the enterprise, as it were.
Chris Squire
#39. There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.
Alexander Dale Oen
#40. Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I'm all about doing every genre.
Meghan Trainor
#41. I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.
Arnold Bennett
#42. I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had ... maybe I could even quit renting.
P. J. O'Rourke
#43. The major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters mediocrity. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.
M.J. Ryan
#44. I mistook non-conformity for freedom and in so doing found myself anything but free. For it is in conformity to one's true nature that one is most becoming, in both senses of the word: well-fitted and beautiful.
Karen Swallow Prior
#45. We're not doing anything today, obviously," Adam said. "Do you want to hang out?" Blue looked around for a couch. It would be easier to hang out with a couch.
Maggie Stiefvater
#46. The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.
Stephen Hawking
#47. I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.
Deirdre O'Kane
#48. I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the way of the music any more than it has. It hasn't really gotten in the way; I've been doing two things at once.
Cassie Ventura
#49. It's like a telescope. My dad, no matter what he's doing, zooms right in so he can't see anything except what's right there with him at that minute. My mom, she's always on wide angle.
Jodi Picoult
#50. You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.
Ryan Gosling
#51. If you haven't made a mistake I cast a jaundiced eye, because you're probably not doing anything.
John Peterman
#52. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#53. I learned early on, the worst day chasing your dreams is better than the best day doing anything else. I
David Labrava
#54. I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I'd be traveling a little bit, I'd be going to classes and I'd be going back to school.
Ricky Williams
#55. Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing.
Aidan Chambers
#56. No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.
Douglas V. Steere
#57. I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.
Jamaica Kincaid
#58. I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.
Yelawolf
#59. Claire didn't understand the appeal of being drugged. She had thought the purpose was to make you numb, but if anything, she was feeling everything much too intensely. She couldn't shut down her brain. She felt shaky. Her tongue was too thick for her mouth. Maybe she was doing it wrong.
Karin Slaughter
#60. I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
Gretchen Mol
#61. I think it's such a risky thing doing interviews. I try to limit the amount of interviews that I do because no one is that interesting especially when you're not really saying anything. And I don't particularly want to be an character in society or whatever.
Robert Pattinson
#62. Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
Nick Cave
#63. I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.
Dylan O'Brien
#64. Behind every crazy woman is a man sitting very quietly, saying 'What? I'm not doing anything.
Jade Sharma
#65. I don't have anything to hide. And for the record, I am not against plastic surgery. I believe that any woman that wants to do anything or fix anything that bothers her - if she's doing it for herself - I'm all for it.
NeNe Leakes
#66. When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility.
Ayelet Waldman
#67. I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.
Margaret Mitchell
#68. I'm not curing cancer. I'm not saving lives. It's my job. I'm an actor. It's a good, fun job. People enjoy it, but there are many other people who are doing so many things that are more worthwhile. I just don't see anything that special about it. I see it as entertaining.
Kurt Fuller
#69. We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, 'What's the good of doing anything?' Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age.
Agatha Christie
#70. I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know ... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!
Kajol
#71. I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.
Tony Benn
#72. sex takes the consent of two
if one person is lying there not doing anything
cause they are not ready
or not in the mood
or simply don't want to
yet the other is having sex
with their body it's not love
it is rape
Rupi Kaur
#73. Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.
Omar Nelson Bradley
#74. What is the point of doing anything if there isn't any point?
Sydney Wilhelmy
#75. Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#76. If you are not annoying someone, you are not doing anything new
Penelope Trunk
#77. I won't change and my perspective won't change. I want to continue my life the way I live it, and I'm not going to let anything stop me from doing that. It isn't all about acting. There's a lot more to life than Hollywood.
Elijah
#78. 35 "Everyone has a dream, a vision, a goal and a desire. Just because we have bigger dreams than others doesn't mean they don't have one. Sometimes we just too lazy to make it happen or are scared of failing."
But trying is better than not doing anything at all.
Kcat Yarza
#79. To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.
Nancy Hale
#80. I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
Bill Terry
#81. Lord, I need to see You and hear Your voice over and above the storms in my life. Help me to break free of anything that is holding me back from doing
Joyce Meyer
#82. I never wanted my kids to feel I was more interested in anything I was doing than I was in them.
John Irving
#83. If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden
#84. I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.
Nathan Fielder
#85. I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
Martin Freeman
#86. When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up my easel in full sunshine.
Maurice De Vlaminck
#87. Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.
Christopher West
#88. Barbie is my role modle. She might not do anything, but she looks good doing it.
Paris Hilton
#89. If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.
Brandon Sanderson
#90. If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.
Sam Phillips
#91. You're not going to be immediately good at anything you do. You wouldn't quit on the first day of your new job, so why quit on the first try at doing something else?
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#92. Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.
Ashly Lorenzana
#93. The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
Don Meyer
#94. Will you, Eva? WIll you risk everything to see David? Because that's what you'll be doing"
"I'm not risking anything. Theres nothing here I want if I cant have him.
Michelle K. Pickett
#95. What we are doing now is more than lovemaking, more than fucking, more than anything we've ever done. It's primal, it's need, but it's more. It's not ravenous or rushed. This right here, this is decadent.
Alexa Riley
#96. A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you're doing God's work, there's no reason for any demon to do anything to you.
Troy Polamalu
#97. The material I did was lasting material. A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything, but I was in the studio. The biggest factor is the material you choose. You hunt, you cut.
Slim Whitman
#98. They never tell you why they are doing anything. That way you don't find out they don't know themselves.
Raymond Chandler
#99. It's tough, man. Unless it's a tentpole, sequel, remake, or over-the-top comedy, that's all the studios are even doing. They've kind of admitted they're not in the business of doing anything else. The slightest level of irony or intelligence and, boom, you're out of the league, you're done.
Richard Linklater
#100. I wish podcasting was my only job - I have more fun doing that than I have doing absolutely anything else. But my job is that I'm a writer.
Julie Klausner
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