Quotes About Doing Anything

#1. Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

Edward Snowden

#2. The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.

Carlos Castaneda

#3. I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the deal when you're a kid and you think, I wanna go into music, but everybody that I knew was really doing it because of their love for it. I don't see so much of that anymore.

David Bowie

#4. Bullying is an evil because it not only destroys the life of the kid who's bullied, but also makes everyone in the class who knows this is going on feel guilty for not doing anything.

Philip Zimbardo

#5. I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

Tina Turner

#6. While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.

Erwin McManus

#7. I wouldn't want to disappoint my fans by doing anything exciting. You've got to stay true to your roots.

Grumpy Cat

#8. Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually such as directing or acting.

Renee O'Connor

#9. IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything ...

John Wooden

#10. I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.

Isadora Duncan

#11. Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Tammy Bruce

#12. At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

Norman Cousins

#13. I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

Kim Carnes

#14. I remember so vividly playing a scene with Jimmy Stewart. I was in the back of a covered wagon, and we were doing this little talk in the wilderness. They did his close-up first. I was looking at him and thinking, 'How does he do that?' He is not 'doing' anything, and yet everything is there.

Julie Adams

#15. Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again.

Emma Watson

#16. I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me.

Leelee Sobieski

#17. some women can steal your heart by their beauty, some can steal your mind by their intelligence and others can steal your soul by their presence. But if you meet the one who can steal your everything without doing anything, that's the one made for you.' He

Savi Sharma

#18. Just work on your craft hard - that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

David O. Russell

#19. What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.

Steve Buscemi

#20. Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live.

Malcolm Forbes

#21. She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.

Ruth Rendell

#22. Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Gertrude Stein

#23. 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

#24. I love being domestic: making coffee, just putting on a record, and just sitting, not doing anything. It's so great.

Sharon Van Etten

#25. Alighted near Hazel and Fiver. "How's Holly?" asked Hazel. "'E sad," said Kehaar. "'E say you no come back." Then he added, "Mees Clover, she ready for mudder." "That's good," said Hazel. "Is anyone doing anything about it?" "Ya, ya, ees all to fight." "Oh, well, I suppose it'll sort itself out.

Richard Adams

#26. When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Imani Hakim

#27. When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

Bob Gibson

#28. I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

D.H. Lawrence

#29. I am startled by how resistant people are to doing anything nice or nurturing for themselves, especially women. They fear being selfish. This intense clinging to a martyr role doesn't serve anyone. It makes you brittle, not resilient.

Annette Vaillancourt

#30. Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I'm in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed.

Lucas Grabeel

#31. When you bite off only what you can chew, you're going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You're not doing anything wrong.

Kris Carr

#32. We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.

Daniel Quinn

#33. Being alive, you have to do something. Not doing anything is also some kind of action.

Jeff Bridges

#34. I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.

Ruth Rendell

#35. I can't imagine ever doing anything else with my life. It's definitely a challenge but when you accomplish something it feels great!

Amanda Stott

#36. The way you learn is by sitting with the Master, as he moves into those states of attention, you feel that and follow him. He generates tremendous energy when he's doing anything. You are taught inwardly.

Frederick Lenz

#37. Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

Gabriel Basso

#38. Education is ... doing anything that changes you.

George Leonard

#39. Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

Finn Wittrock

#40. I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

Lisa Yuskavage

#41. Dreaming isn't bad for you but not doing anything to craft your dream is.

Mohith Agadi

#42. I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.

Paul Auster

#43. You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.

Chuck Palahniuk

#44. I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films ... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.

Dave McKean

#45. If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.

Frederick Buechner

#46. You never hear about a pit bull doing anything good in the media. And they have a stigma to them ... and, in many ways, pit bulls are like young African-American males. Whenever you see us in the news, it's for getting shot and killed or shooting and killing somebody - for being a stereotype.

Ryan Coogler

#47. As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

Katherine Harris

#48. Look, anything you do, if it isn't hard, it isn't doing anything for you. So you're better off not doing it. Use your time somewhere else.

Jeff Hobbs

#49. Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

Jasper Fforde

#50. I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.

Max Lucado

#51. Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.

Sean Penn

#52. ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to attack the homeland and we're not doing anything about it. So how do you defeat the ideology? Build up others? You reject Rand Paul.

Rand Paul

#53. When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

Linn Ullmann

#54. Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

Morgan Freeman

#55. My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.

J. Boone

#56. You start out with an hour on the treadmill, then another hour of lifting - hell, in two weeks you're not doing anything anymore. You gotta be reasonable.

Jack LaLanne

#57. Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.

Dale Peck

#58. Visions of paradise. That was exactly what had led him down into hell, into endless arguments with his family, into such a powerful feeling of guilt that he had felt incapable of doing anything and had finally sought refuge in another world.

Paulo Coelho

#59. So are you doing anything for your anniversary? I mean other than sitting around your backyard with a bottle of wine moping over lost love."

Since those were pretty much my plans, I said,"No. I'm going to hire a masseur, like you suggested."
After that, there was no turning back.

Marshall Thornton

#60. The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.

Hans Arp

#61. I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it.

Anthony Horowitz

#62. Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

Nicola Yoon

#63. Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'.

Chris Brown

#64. But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it just prevents me from enjoying it.

Carlton Fisk

#65. It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.

Owen Hart

#66. Just follow the rules. Always have a designated driver. Don't be doing anything to make someone mad. And just walk away from the trouble.

Rob Gronkowski

#67. He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.

Pierce Brown

#68. A mind that's open to everything means being peaceful, radiating love, practicing forgiveness, being generous, respecting all life, and most important, visualizing yourself as capable of doing anything that you can conceive of in your mind and heart.

Wayne Dyer

#69. Focus helps you do something. Distraction makes you avoid doing anything.

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#70. The closest I came to doing anything that I wanted to do was to try and check and see what industries were just starting out. There was plastics and television, and I figured television had to be more fun than plastics.

Chuck Barris

#71. When we realize that the strength of the Infinite is our strength and that the strength of the Infinite is limitless, we must come to the conclusion that we are capable of doing anything that the living of a great life may demand.

Christian D. Larson

#72. The ordinary traveler, who never goes off the beaten route and who on this beaten route is carried by others, without himself doing anything or risking anything, does not need to show much more initiative and intelligence than an express package, Roosevelt sneered.

Candice Millard

#73. I think privacy is valuable. You don't have to share everything, and it's healthy to occasionally hit the pause button and ask yourself if you're oversharing. But at the end of the day, if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to hide.

Ashton Kutcher

#74. Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#75. Maybe because we're women, we have a very high respect level for each other. And when you do have ownership, you're going to make it the best it can be. And I think that's a really - although subtle - very important point in - when you're doing anything creative.

Maryann Brandon

#76. Suddenly he realised why so many of the inmates went to the young man to talk. It was the silence. The beckoning vacuum of someone who simply listens without reaction or judgement. Who extracts your words and your secrets from you without doing anything at all.

Jo Nesbo

#77. All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

George Bernard Shaw

#78. It wasn't much to most kids. I mean, I was basically getting recognized for being straight dogshit, ignoring that I was straight dogshit, and doing anything in my power just to maintain my dogshittiness. I think on Urban Dictionary that's the definition for insanity - or a Michael Bay film.

Eddie Huang

#79. Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

Bradley Whitford

#80. I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?

Alex Tabarrok

#81. I can't imagine Weezer stopping. We just love doing what we're doing, and I think we'll keep going until we fall down dead. Even if the audience is abandoning us, I can't imagine doing anything else!

Rivers Cuomo

#82. Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.

Frederick Lenz

#83. More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.

Heidi Baker

#84. I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.

John Bachar

#85. If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Woody Allen

#86. It's interesting that people who can perpetrate cons have talked themselves into believing that they're not doing anything bad. That they tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they're doing is the crazy thing about human behavior.

Craig Zobel

#87. I know I'm getting old because there will be times when I'm not even doing anything and I'll think, 'I need to go wipe my ass right now.'

Louis C.K.

#88. You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

Gene Simmons

#89. To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and I'm not able to do anything.

Nick Cave

#90. This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

Renny Harlin

#91. It is not possible to know 'Who am I?' by 'doing'. 'Doing' (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, 'Who am I' cannot be known.

Dada Bhagwan

#92. I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, "No way, man. He's just banging strippers." And I do that, but not all the time.

Henry Rollins

#93. You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

Douglas Wilder

#94. You're killing me here, Sage!" "I'm not doing anything." "Exactly my point.

Richelle Mead

#95. I think there's nothing wrong with eating all the time. At least i'm not doing anything illegal.

Niall Horan

#96. I know I shouldn't let him, but it all feels so good, so exciting, that I keep telling myself I'm not doing anything all that wrong.

Jessica Warman

#97. My bottom belly was gone! I'd contemplated having that thing sucked out many times, but if you've ever had a face-lift and a brow lift and felt the pain of that, it makes you pause before doing anything else too invasive.

Adena Halpern

#98. One person cannot make up for the evils of a whole system and it is the system that is to blame - the system of narrowness and of pride, and of exclusiveness, and of no one doing anything for another, unless there is something to be gained in return.

Amy Dillwyn

#99. I'm not going to be doing anything to hurt myself or my fans.

Becky G

#100. God is reflected in your heart as your Spirit, called as Atma. Unless and until your attention reaches that Spirit, talking about it, doing anything about it, it's absolutely useless. You have to be really born again. It's an actualization, which should take place.

Nirmala Srivastava