Quotes About Doing Things

#1. They flew off in Xavin's spaceship and I watched it until it faded away. It was so sad. But I hope wherever they are right now they are having some cool space adventures, and doing things that girls who like each other do. Like having sleepovers and telling ghost stories.

C.B. Cebulski

#2. It's important to remember when you start doing things like attacking hospitals through the internet, when you start attacking things like internet exchange points, when something goes wrong, people can die. If a hospital's infrastructure is affected, lifesaving equipment turns off.

Edward Snowden

#3. Tracy McGrady is doing things we've never seen from anybody - from any planet!

Bill Walton

#4. Doing things for others is something that money cannot buy it is a priceless act which gives an abundance of worthy feelings for both involved, to empower others and to know that others care is an key part of listening, the stoppage of wars, the foundations of a hopeful future for everybody.

Paul Isaacs

#5. I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

Karl Lagerfeld

#6. If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.

John Harvey-Jones

#7. Success means doing things you don't want to do.

Rory Vaden

#8. I've learned that by doing things, things get done

Ray Bradbury

#9. I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

C.S. Lewis

#10. Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code.

Ricky Gervais

#11. I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again.

Maria Sharapova

#12. I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

Tom Hodgkinson

#13. I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in.

Rolf Harris

#14. It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.

George S. Patton

#15. Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

#16. But you gotta live your own life. You gotta take care a your own shit before you get started doing things for errybody else.

Jesse Andrews

#17. How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.

Paul Zane Pilzer

#18. For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

Anthony Esolen

#19. In my experience, friendship happens naturally. By talking, doing things together, learning.

Jodi Meadows

#20. You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

Michelle Bachelet

#21. I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.

Caitlin Moran

#22. I don't just write a script, and then someone takes it away and builds a game. I am continually getting input in order to create a big suspension field to hold the gameplay together so that the gamers aren't doing arbitrary tasks, so that they are doing things that seem meaningful.

Marc Laidlaw

#23. 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

#24. Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.

Art Linkletter

#25. I know people who enjoy having 10 people running around and doing things for them. I don't. I feel awkward in such situations. It gives you a false sense of importance.

Sonam Kapoor

#26. Sometimes,
you must refrain from doing things you want so bad.

Toba Beta

#27. People do things in the names of good, and in the name of ideals, but the world isn't that simple. So they end up doing things that aren't necessarily good. Even if they think they're doing the right thing, but when viewed from a different perspective they can look barbaric and crazy.

Matt Damon

#28. I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling.

Hill Harper

#29. When you don't have many friends and you don't have a social life you're kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There's a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you're part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

Tim Burton

#30. As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

Jay Abraham

#31. I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.

Olivier Theyskens

#32. You know, we may just be planting seeds for future generations, but that's okay. We can't be deterred from doing things, because we might be laughed at, because somebody might say, "What did you think you'd accomplish by turning your back on the secretary of state," or something like that.

Ray McGovern

#33. It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

Anupam Kher

#34. But, mostly, I didn't pursue people I wasn't crazy about because I was busy doing things that I enjoyed more than being with men I wasn't crazy about.

Rebecca Traister

#35. There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#36. Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

David Schwimmer

#37. Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'

Charles McCarry

#38. Life is always so full. Getting and spending we lay waste to our powers. Why do we let ourselves be so busy and miss doing things we should have, or would have, liked to do?

Alice Munro

#39. Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

Oswald Chambers

#40. I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich.

Daymond John

#41. We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#42. What I'm trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the end of the river to the start of the river. And endings are always sad. We are doing the sad bit first, which is wrong. Strange.

Mal Peet

#43. HC: You think I shall differently tomorrow? [about suicide]

J: People do.

HC: Yes, perhaps. If you're doing things in a mood of hot despair. But when it's cold despair, it's different. I've nothing to live for, you see.

~Hilary Craven; Jessop

Agatha Christie

#44. You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

William Scott

#45. That's because success convinces us that we are doing things the right way. There is nothing quite as effective, when it comes to shutting down alternative viewpoints, as being convinced you are right.

Ed Catmull

#46. I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an actor - I can't stand it when you have actors who are trying to leverage directors into doing things they don't want to do.

Christian Bale

#47. I THINK ITS COOL THAT OTHER CROWDS LIKE WHAT I DO. HOWEVER IVE ALWAYS HAD A GOOD MIX OF PEOPLE AT MY SHOWS. I STARTED DOING THINGS ON RADIO ON ROCK MARKETS AND ALTERNATIVE MARKETS. IVE ALWAYS BEEN A COUNTRY TYPE ACT HOWEVER I STARTED WITH THE ROCK MARKET. IM VERY INTERCHANGEABLE.

Larry The Cable Guy

#48. I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.

Neel Mukherjee

#49. Everyone gets to the stage, or should get to it, where it's more important to stop doing things than to keep on trying to do them.

George Johnston

#50. The problem is not what we are doing badly, it is because we are not doing things well.

Patrice Evra

#51. You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

Penelope Wilton

#52. Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I'll play anything for you till you ask me to stop, till it's time for lunch, till the skin on my fingers wears off layer after layer, because I like doing things for you, will do anything for you, just say the word ...

Andre Aciman

#53. Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.

Nhat Hanh

#54. My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

Chris Klein

#55. Had I been scared that whole time? Had I held myself back from doing things because I was afraid?

C.D. Reiss

#56. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter F. Drucker

#57. Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

Jessica Williams

#58. A job for your family, a paycheck in your mailbox - they're the ultimate proof that your state is doing things right!

Bobby Jindal

#59. I know quite a few eco designers who build dresses out of old couture gowns. They disassemble, 'upcycle,' and reuse them in extraordinary ways. To me, that's a sustainable way of doing things.

Suzy Amis

#60. A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.

Wallace D. Wattles

#61. I like doing things that make me uncomfortable. I try not to have a comfort zone

Jennifer Echols

#62. I found my own way of doing things.

Lee Clow

#63. Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Robert Henri

#64. You ignorant, ill-bred foreigners! If you don't like the way I'm doing things out there, why don't you just pack up and go back to your own countries!

Albert C. Bender

#65. Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such.

Jeremy Bulloch

#66. It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings.

Gus Van Sant

#67. You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Bill Gates

#68. There are two things I'm very passionate about; doing things I genuinely enjoy doing and doing things that brings positive change in other people's life.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#69. I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.

Edna Ferber

#70. People feel good about doing things with you if you're enthusiastic.

Elizabeth Mitchell

#71. 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

#72. If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.

Martin Heinrich

#73. I'm part of an industry that everybody wants to be a part of. I do hang out with a lot of sort of powerful, interesting people like Bella Freud or Jay Joplin or Tracey Emin. I'm part of that group of people. Brit artists who are doing things. That's what I do. Some of them happen to be aristocrats.

Duncan Roy

#74. I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

Natalie Cole

#75. The right thing to do is doing whatever you think is the right. Because everything you do, people will not consider them right unless it is according to their benefits. So the right thing for you is to decide doing things they are right, whether they are told to be right, or not right.

M.F. Moonzajer

#76. In spite of the extraordinary outpouring of totally and partially new products and new ways of doing things that we are witnessing today, by far the greatest flow of newness is not innovation at all. Rather, it is imitation.

Theodore Levitt

#77. I loved his strength and determination. I loved how much pleasure he got from doing things right. I loved that life was better simply because he was around.

Elizabeth Langston

#78. Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Eli Broad

#79. Some people spend their days talking about how cool they areothers spend them doing things that make them cool

Jinxx

#80. Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into the money thing. I now don't feel guilty about it, but I am determined to give away the bulk of it and enjoy doing it.

David Rubenstein

#81. 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

#82. I could live my whole life being so comfortable doing things I've already worked hard to not be nervous at, or I could continue to push the envelope and make myself uncomfortable and learn and see what I'm capable of, and acting is definitely that.

Ruby Rose

#83. We'll miss all of these.
Yes ... we'll miss the days of old, ways of doing things,
when we've been able to do everything, in the future.

Toba Beta

#84. In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don't suck with people who don't suck.

John Green

#85. One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

Herbie Hancock

#86. It was too easy, and he'd had enough of doing things the easy way.

Lev Grossman

#87. 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

#88. However, sexual anorexics do have a definite profile that separates them from the larger population of those having difficulty being sexual: They are often extremely competent people who are committed to doing things very well and have a fear of making mistakes and being human.

Patrick J. Carnes

#89. I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

Christopher Egan

#90. Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.

Albert L. Gray

#91. Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.

Gelett Burgess

#92. It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.

Tom Waits

#93. My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.

Jeff Garlin

#94. People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.

Malcolm Gladwell

#95. Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

Lord Chesterfield

#96. I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

Danielle Fishel

#97. Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

Flea

#98. It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.

Norah Jones

#99. So that's the way you scientific detectives work. My god! for a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, pig-headed guy, you've got the vaguest way of doing things I ever heard of.

Dashiell Hammett

#100. It's like I became so obsessed with doing things right, I forgot to enjoy them.

Jessica Brody