Top 100 Quotes About What You Are Doing
#1. Only you know what you are doing - or not doing - to become the best you can be.
Jan Marie Mueller
#2. As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
Gary Johnson
#3. Think! What will you get by doing what you are doing? If the answer is "Nothing", then why do it? - RVM
R.v.m.
#4. Love what you are doing because that's the only way you'll ever be really good at it.
Fred Trump
#5. I think we've become a TV culture where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.
Laura Benanti
#6. Assume that everybody can see what you are doing and then live your life that way - you will find that generally you are treated right.
Frank Schilling
#7. Take your mind off yourself. Focus on what you are doing and how you can do it better.
Bob Proctor
#8. To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions. They alienate you from the true reality of any action you perform.
Frederick Lenz
#9. Nothing wrong with looking like a fool if what you are doing is far from foolish.
Paulo Coelho
#10. It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.
Tom Wolfe
#11. In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.
Janet Yellen
#12. We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
Malcolm X
#13. If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.
Jim Rohn
#14. Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.
Virginia Cary Hudson
#15. If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.
Wayne Dyer
#16. Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don't find the connection between our work and our own motivations.
Jay Maisel
#17. If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.
Youssou N'Dour
#18. You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
Edgar Degas
#19. Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#20. Study history. Separate fears and prejudices from facts. Recognize facts from propaganda. Invest energy in fighting for what you believe in. Analyze harder where we are going and what you are doing about it. What do you really believe in? How much do we care?
Mae Brussell
#21. It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
Dale Carnegie
#22. At the end of 10 rounds, what you got, unless you have a knockout, of course, and so what you are doing is you are really packaging aggression in its most palatable form.
Ferdie Pacheco
#23. If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.
Will Rogers
#24. Replace it. 7. Please say what you are doing and how you propose to overcome the growing difficulties of sending reinforcements into Singapore. Also, what has been done about reducing number of useless mouths in Singapore Island? What was the reply about supplies? *** It is not possible to pursue
Winston S. Churchill
#25. The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead.
Charles Eames
#26. Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
Petrarch
#27. Look to see what you are doing today. Is this how you choose to define yourself? Look to see what you are thinking today. Is this what you wish to create?
Neale Donald Walsch
#28. I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
Antonio Damasio
#29. RVM Thoughts for Today -
The Secret of HAPPINESS - Enjoy what you are doing or stop and do what you enjoy.
R.v.m.
#30. In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance ... you thrive on that.
Bill Gates
#31. I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love what you are doing, you are able to do extraordinary things that you yourself didn't think you could do before.
Rokia Traore
#32. Oh, oh human stupidity, probably that's why I don't succeed with mankind, somebody says "Can I stop by?" you answer "Okay..." or "Sure""... but why and saying what you are doing in case he hasn't asked you?
Deyth Banger
#33. It is good to know what you are doing. The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in his experience many lies. The fish is not that color, that texture, that dead, nor does he smell that way.
John Steinbeck
#34. You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.
Brad Bird
#35. Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.
George F. Will
#36. Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.
Tariq Ramadan
#37. The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure ... you are above everything distressing.
Baruch Spinoza
#38. How can you keep your mind from wandering when you pray? Remember what you are doing: talking to God. If you had the opportunity to talk with the president, I doubt if your mind would wander. [We] have the privilege of talking to someone far greater: the King of kings!
Billy Graham
#39. Competitiveness must be focused exclusively on the process of what you are doing rather than the result of that effort (the so-called winning or losing).
John Wooden
#40. At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine ... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.
Thierry Henry
#41. Is that what you are doing? Enduring? Surely an engaged woman should be happier." His light eyes raked her. "A heart divided against itself cannot stand, as they say. You love them both, and it tears you apart.
Cassandra Clare
#42. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
Bre Pettis
#43. Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing deconstructing I'm going to start building ... What matters is what you are doing when you die ... I want to be building.
Muriel Barbery
#44. Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
Al Pacino
#45. Above all, you have to love what you are doing. You cannot fake passion. If you love it you can fight through the rough times and enjoy the good times.
Shannon Miller
#46. Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.
Barbara Johnson
#47. Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
Robin Cousins
#48. Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.
Lakshmi Mittal
#49. My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#50. A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could do it. But at a certain point, you need a strong interpretive conviction and, as you say, an "intangible" relationship to what you are doing.
Oliver Harris
#51. The most important thing is for you to believe in what you are doing.
Debbi Fields
#52. Just love what you are doing, and try to play more.
Lang Lang
#53. You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.
William T. Sherman
#54. If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#55. Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.
Virgil Thomson
#56. I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.
Hans Rosling
#58. If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
Dale Carnegie
#59. If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?
David Wessel
#60. It's not what you have done in your past,
but what you are doing for your
future that counts!
Timothy Pina
#61. I walked the streets of New York; I would feel the presence of Daredevil. I would see him up on the rooftop. What you are doing in your life, you start to see in your book. It all starts to merge together.
Ann Nocenti
#62. Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.
John Kessel
#63. When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to 'achieve' or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#64. Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.
Peter Drucker
#65. When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.
Luc Tuymans
#66. If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.
John Irving
#67. You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie
#68. What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.
Mother Teresa
#69. Happiness is there when you are in love with what you are doing.
Debasish Mridha
#70. In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.
Emmitt Smith
#71. The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.
Eckhart Tolle
#72. It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter - nothing can justify that sacrifice.
Timothy Ferriss
#73. The process of planning is very valuable, for forcing you to think hard about what you are doing, but the actual plan that results from it is probably useless.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#74. No birthday, concert, hangout session, or party can be enjoyed without taking the time to distance yourself from what you are doing to make sure that those in your digital world know instantly how much fun you are having.
Daniel Goleman
#75. In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.
Jack Ma
#76. In the future, I think you are going to want to capture a whole scene, a room, to be able to transport to that. To be able to stream what you are doing live and have people be able to interact in that space.
Mark Zuckerberg
#77. Experience has taught me that it is always better to be well rested than to know what you are doing - Nanny Piggins
R.A. Spratt
#78. Therefore, before you begin anything, seek out your allies, people who are interested in what you are doing. I'm not saying 'seek out other archers'.
Paulo Coelho
#79. Being it is much different than doing it. If you find yourself unhappy with what you are doing, it might just be because you've been too focused on being, and not focused enough on doing. Time to change that.
Nick O'Kelly
#80. In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance.
Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr.
#81. Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.
Lynn Jennings
#82. People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.
Mark Harmon
#83. There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#84. Consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing
Bart Conner
#85. You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.
Miranda Otto
#86. When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing.
Sakyong Mipham
#87. When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.
Robert Hunter
#88. If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done.
Nido R. Qubein
#89. You can't avoid them forever, Ry.
You have to make a decision soon. It isn't fair what you are doing to either of them.
I know.
I'm just afraid of making the wrong one.
You aren't afraid of making the wrong one, Ry, it's the fact that you want to make the wrong one.
Rachel E. Carter
#90. You can't be unique any way. Music is made from seven notes. You will always come back to something. Even if you think you are unique, you will come back to something that existed before you were doing what you are doing.
Rokia Traore
#91. Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.
Richard G. Scott
#92. Money flows in from multiple sources, when you are truly focused on feeling good about what you are doing and living the present moment fully. If you think it has to be hard, then it is hard; if you decide it can be easy, natural, and flowing- you have opened the door.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#93. You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.
Napoleon Hill
#94. That's when you realize you not only have no idea what you are doing, you also have no principles. You have become the "God help us if something happens to the President" Vice President.
Jim Gaffigan
#95. When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Epictetus
#96. Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.
Garth Stein
#97. Measure what you can, evaluate what you measure, and appreciate that you cannot measure the vast majority of what you do. And at least every once in a while, make time to take a step back and think about what you are doing.
Ed Catmull
#98. Put glibly:
In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state.
Richard Hamming
#99. Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.
Josh Lucas
#100. Nothing wrong with appearing to be a fool, if what you are doing is intelligent.
Paulo Coelho
