Top 100 Sayings About Doing Something
#1. But when folks are down to the one thing that keeps them alive, that one thing can be meanness. It makes you feel like you're there, you're doing something.
Marilynne Robinson
#2. Do you think I'm somehow healthier because I don't know how to repress? Is it possible that constant fear is the natural state of man and that by living close to my fear I am actually doing something heroic, Murray?"
Do you feel heroic?"
No."
Then you probably aren't.
Don DeLillo
#3. I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because I fear writing the same book all over again. That's why I am taking a break and doing something different this time.
John Gimlette
#4. Never stand on one spot, always be doing something in line with your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#5. If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.
Rodney Brooks
#6. Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing something to me.
Sara Levine
#7. Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.
Twyla Tharp
#8. For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.
Kaley Cuoco
#9. Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.
David Jeremiah
#10. Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.
John Wooden
#11. My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.
Wynton Marsalis
#12. One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.
Angus King
#13. If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.
Tom Hodgkinson
#15. I don't wanna go on vacation. There's nothing about it that appeals to me. People look forward to doing that; I look forward to getting up every day and doing something.
Gene Simmons
#16. I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.
Cathy Freeman
#17. Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.
Mark Hoppus
#18. I think it's important when you're acting to be as relaxed as possible even if you're doing something intense. You're basically in a state of dynamic relaxation.
Christian Bale
#19. The definition of crazy is doing something close to the same thing twice and expecting a different end.
Cath Crowley
#20. While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.
Seth Godin
#21. We're generally quite good at doing something, but we're really bad at doing nothing.
John Ortberg
#22. Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
Jodi Picoult
#23. The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?
Mark Dacascos
#24. Sometimes the hardest thing within doing something challenging is deciding to commit to do it.
Andi Jones
#25. Being creative means first of all doing something unusual ... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.
Howard Gardner
#26. L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.
Israel Horovitz
#27. Meditation is not about doing something
Joko Beck
#28. I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at ping pong with their husband? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed.
Elizabeth Taylor
#29. You should follow your passions, you know? And you should make sure you do something you love. That's all I've learned, is that if you're doing something you love you'll work harder at it and make it happen, I can promise you that.
Tom DeLonge
#30. So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.
Miroslav Vitous
#31. Doing something brave is much like saying something stupid. You rarely plan on it happening.
Brandon Sanderson
#33. In an era when the regular worthy rhythm of life is less eye-catching than doing something extraordinary, I am reassured that I am merely the second sovereign to celebrate a diamond jubilee.
Elizabeth II
#34. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times.
Viktor E. Frankl
#35. It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
Peter Lynch
#36. We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you're not doing something about it, you're doing something about it.
Chris Guillebeau
#37. Of course it's your fault," Grandma said. "You must be doing something wrong, if you know what I mean. Maybe you need to buy a book that tells you how to do it. I hear there are books out there with pictures and everything. I saw one in the store the other day. It was called A Sex Guide for Dummies.
Janet Evanovich
#38. Doing something completely different than acting for awhile is really important.
Anna Silk
#39. You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
Halle Berry
#40. Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right
just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive
just something fun and good and beautiful.
Regina Doman
#41. Maybe he got tired of waiting and he'd gone without me though I doubted that was the case and decided he was probably doing something Max-ish. Chopping wood. Building a barn. Saving a child in distress or climbing a tree to rescue a cat. Stuff like that.
Kristen Ashley
#42. I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.
Michael Jackson
#43. When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical.
Anthony Fauci
#44. People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.
John Sculley
#45. I want people to see a real person on the ice. I want to seem tangible, hard-working, passionate about my skating, not just going out and doing something I've rehearsed a million times.
Ashley Wagner
#46. They say people are fundamentally interested in only three things - food, sex and shelter. I can't say I'm authoritative on the first two, although I'm in favor of both. It's shelter that concerns me, and it's nice to be doing something people are interested in.
Edward Durell Stone
#47. Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#48. Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.
Bethenny Frankel
#50. It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.
FKA Twigs
#51. Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.
Evan Esar
#52. Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they're only too happy to continue until they're caught.
Julie Anne Long
#53. Now, two things happen. One is, people know people, whether that's on Facebook or Twitter. They feel closer to the event. Secondly, people see other people doing something about it.
Pete Cashmore
#54. I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.
Kevin Smith
#55. Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn't I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?
Richelle Mead
#56. One good and bad thing about New York is there's so much exciting stuff and so many people doing something interesting. I actually find in New York that you become more careerist and more focused on what's the newest, hippest thing.
Mike Mills
#57. Spanking outdoors has the double pleasure of doing something illicit and doing it in a place where you might be seen. In every woman, I came to realise, there is a desire to be naked, a desire to be seen naked and the desire to be spanked.
Chloe Thurlow
#58. I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.
Don Nelson
#59. It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee."
"No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.
Peter Cameron
#60. I looked at Rachel. "You're not going to do anything stupid, are you? I mean ... you talked to Chiron, right?"
She managed a faint smile. "You're worried about me doing something stupid?
Rick Riordan
#61. Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.
Sherry Turkle
#62. A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.
Thomas Carlyle
#63. Sometimes you can't let a complete dearth of natural talent or ability stop you from doing something.
Geraldine DeRuiter
#64. I think, because it's one of my favorite moments in [Charles Manson's Hollywood]. That series got a lot of attention and people talk about it a lot, but they tend to focus on the episodes that have more to do with the murder, Charles Manson doing something particularly weird, or Sharon Tate.
Karina Longworth
#65. I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.
Genevieve Gorder
#66. You know ... it always seems obvious to outsiders when someone is doing something wrong, but when your mind is in the midst of evil, it is easy to be manipulated by crueller instincts.
Cassandra Kemper
#67. Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the long run, it's just something that is life blood. If I'm not participating in some way, I feel like I'm wasting my time.
Autre Ne Veut
#68. There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even if only to crack their friends up - has already crossed that chasm to doing something. That's the sea change, and you can see it even with the cute cats.
Clay Shirky
#69. Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
Frank A. Clark
#70. Selfless giving means forgeting about yourself. It means letting go and doing something crazy.
Frederick Lenz
#71. All that crap about love and fairness and doing something with your life, Bruno ... Those are luxury problems. The CEO's wife can go around worrying about that stuff. People like us from the projects have to play by a different set of rules."
George Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd
Steen Langstrup
#72. Uncomfortable doesn't mean bad, uncomfortable simply means you're doing something you haven't done before.
Joe Vitale
#73. Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.
Shailene Woodley
#74. She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.
Walt Disney Company
#75. Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
Thorstein Veblen
#76. If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.
Bryan Fuller
#77. There's a huge difference between doing what you love as a hobby and doing something professionally. But the biggest struggle is simply finding time to work.
Ryan McGinness
#78. I am a very active person. I have a lot of energy, and I love to be doing something physical all the time.
Tiffany Dupont
#79. If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.
Anita Roddick
#80. I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.
Caitlin Thomas
#81. We cannot be pepped up and enthusiastic about doing something exciting and feel dragged down by worry at the very same time. One kind of emotion drives out the other.
Dale Carnegie
#82. We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.
Aidan Chambers
#83. Now and again, an actor will blow my mind by doing something really unexpected, like Mickey Rourke or Christopher Walken - you have absolutely no idea what they're going to do, which is really thrilling to watch.
Jamie Dornan
#84. I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#85. I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.
James Hetfield
#86. I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong.
Malvina Reynolds
#87. It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#88. Film schools are not rigorous enough. They let things get by and kids get out there and they think they are saying something and doing something.
Rob Nilsson
#90. It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.
Ornette Coleman
#91. I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.
Nadia Ali
#92. I have repeatedly seen how people are poor at articulating what they want - until they see a work centre doing something they don't want them to do.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#93. Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better
Meg Jay
#94. From everything I can read about Aussie spiders, it seems like all they really like doing is hiding in your house or garden or car until you 'accidentally' disturb them - probably by doing something crazy like putting on the shoe they are lurking in - and they can officially bite you to pieces.
John Niven
#95. A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
Adam Mansbach
#96. The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.
J.R. Miller
#97. My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.
Sasha Grey
#98. I was age six or seven, and singing, "Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.
Al Jarreau
#99. One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.
Sean Penn
#100. I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
Larry Mullen
