Top 100 Quotes About What You Want To Do
#1. Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#2. Fuck your lineage," said Gerris. "The dragons won't care about your blood, except maybe how it tastes. You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson. They're monsters, not maesters. Quent, is this truly what you want to do?
George R R Martin
#3. What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.
Robert W. Bly
#4. I believe you need to be educated on what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you necessarily need collage to get there.
Will Smith
#5. 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
#6. You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.
Aden Young
#7. I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.
Lizzo
#8. If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#9. The problem with responsibility is it often prevents you from doing what you want to do.
Caleb Cleek
#10. We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.
Kevin Drew
#11. When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
Bruce Schneier
#12. What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.
Jimmy Breslin
#13. Once I got my business degree I realized I didn't want to do business anymore. My passion started to kick in and say, "Are you really sure this is what you want to do with the rest of your life? Are you 100% positive?"
Jay Ellis
#14. The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.
Alexandre Aja
#15. If you're not passionate about what you want to do, you won't be good at it.
Sid Haig
#16. Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#17. 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
#18. America: You didn't have to do that.
Maxon: I know. But sometimes it's about what you want to do, not what you have to.
Kiera Cass
#19. 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
#20. It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.
James Norton
#21. The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.
Ted Cruz
#22. Have fun. Keep your integrity. Do what you want to do and stay true to that.
Jason Dohring
#23. My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.
Imelda May
#24. If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.
Marlon Wayans
#25. There is only one way to success and that is love. Love what you want to do, it will be done.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Figure out what you want to do. Study it. Live it. Master it. And you're golden.
C. Beretta
#27. If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.
Joseph O'Neill
#28. No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.
Mark Duplass
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.
Dave Thomas
#32. It is fine to be all focused on gymnastics if that is what you want to do, but once you are finished with gymnastics, what are you going to do?
Amy Chow
#33. Soaking" seems like a crazy word in an intimacy book. Yet that is exactly what you want to do in your relational time with Him, you want to "soak in and soak up" His presence, "soak in and soak up" His love.
Linda Boone
#34. 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
#35. You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#36. I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.
Ashley Jensen
#37. If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree. You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way
Henry Rollins
#38. Do what YOU want to do because if you don't, you are nothing but your own slave.-RVM
R.v.m.
#39. 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
#40. Knowing what you want to do and then what you have to do to make it happen is one big difference between adult creativity and child's play.
Rob Bevan
#42. 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
#43. In any relationship, do what is right; not what you want to do. Eliminate selfishness. Eliminate neglect.
Bridget Earl Pehrson
#44. 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
#45. The overall message is that no matter what you want to do in life, don't give up.
Jay Rock
#46. - 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
#47. Things will come to you when the time is right and I say just go for it. If you love what you want to do, just keep on going.
Bailee Madison
#48. I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'
James Corden
#49. Part of this individualism is you feel this pressure that you alone have to conquer the world, and if you don't work all the hours God gives then you start feeling really guilty. If you can stop feeling guilty, then I think it's easier to start doing what you want to do.
Tom Hodgkinson
#50. Don't let anyone tell you not to do what you want to do.
Brad Goreski
#51. The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.
Noam Chomsky
#52. Start doing what you want to do, and everything else will be revealed to you.
Paulo Coelho
#53. But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.
Stephen King
#54. Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.
Oprah Winfrey
#55. 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
#56. We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.
E. Lockhart
#57. 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
#58. I've heard enough about what you want to do; now tell me what needs doing
John Marsden
#59. I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.
Cecelia Ahern
#60. Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.
Ernest Hemingway,
#61. My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.
Lukas Foss
#62. You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time
Dennis Prager
#63. To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world ... Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.
Eric Schmidt
#64. Jesus, help us to build our faith in You, and to believe in Your provision for every need. We also ask You to give us a vision of what You want to do in our lives for Your glory. In Your name, amen.
Stephen Kendrick
#65. When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in bloom; you're like, 'Oh, I just want to smell the flowers and play among the flowers all day.' That's what I'm doing. I'm playing among the flowers.
Colman Domingo
#66. 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
#67. When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.
Ravi Zacharias
#68. 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
#69. Love is an anchor -- it stops you from drifting away. Love is sticking up for your friends and family, or even your pets. Love is being brave and saying what you feel. Love is making music or playing tennis; it's doing what you want to do. Love is holding on and not letting go.
Robert Corbet
#70. Do what you want to do. Do what you like to do.
Lei Jun
#71. That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.
Maya Angelou
#72. You can't let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.
Jennifer Lopez
#73. Games are never over because you think them so! Which is why I like you. Are you doing what you want to do...or are you simply another piece of a darkened puzzle? Your own actions predetermined by powers higher than yourself?
LaTorre Mays
#74. What I love about what I've been given - and luck has a lot to do with it - is that if you follow your heart you'll wind up doing exactly what you want to do. I was fortunate enough to have enough of a foundation with people behind me to do what was in my heart. And it's all worked out.
Julianna Margulies
#75. Have strength in yourself always .think and remember not just what you should do, but also what you want to do. (Ageha , Basara, Vol. 13)
Yumi Tamura
#76. When you're a woman in your thirties, and maybe you don't really know what you want to do with your life, but it seems like everyone else does, and your best friend gets married, and it forces you to look at yourself. I don't know if I described that in a very funny way.
Kristen Wiig
#77. Money gives you the freedom to do with your time what you want to do with it
Richard Branson
#78. 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
#79. Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
Hampton Sides
#80. Forget what you are supposed to do, do what you want to do.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#81. If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
Maggie Smith
#82. You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.
Russell Crowe
#83. I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.
Steve Kerr
#84. 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
#85. Discipline is doing what you don't want to do so you can do what you want to do.
Jeff Fisher
#86. It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck ... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it.
Mark Cuban
#87. 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
#88. Initially, you have to live a period where you are developing your attitude. I would consider that a meditation: determining what you want to do. You have a period where you meditate and you get the strength.
Sakyong Mipham
#89. 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
#90. I don't actually tend to do a lot of research when I'm writing. I do know because I think a lot of what I find you want to do with research is just confirming things you want to do. If the research contradicts what you want to do, you tend to go ahead and do it anyway.
Christopher Nolan
#91. I have the feeling, Liberty, that you're hoping for someone to give you permission to do what you want to do.
Lisa Kleypas
#92. If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#93. Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.
William Zinsser
#94. If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Desiderius Erasmus
#95. I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.
Whit Stillman
#96. Focus on what you want to do. Don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. Get your mind towards what you want to do and you'll achieve it. It makes it fun. You gotta take risks at times. Risks pay off.
Mark Zupan
#97. I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
A.S. Byatt
#98. You can't know now what the results will be in the future. So for now, don't even think about it. Think about what you want to do and what you can do. That's very different from 'running away'. What do you want to do?
CLAMP
#99. I always like to say that no matter what you want to do in life, if you stick with it, you're bound to eventually get good at it!
Rick Tramonto
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