Top 100 To Do Something Quotes
#1. Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.
Keke Palmer
#2. You see, my buddies had a freedom I no longer had. All I wanted was to do something normal and skateboard with the guys, but i knew that if I went downstairs to join them it would create total chaos.
Justin Bieber
#3. I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!
Anna Sui
#4. People were like, "Oh maybe we can change your teeth" and I thought that was going a bit far. You have to be really strong in this job and realise that you are your own boss and if someone tells you to do something, you don't have to do it. I really like my teeth.
Lara Stone
#5. It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.
Lykke Li
#6. No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.
Stephenie Meyer
#7. And if one doesn't dare to do something immediately then one never does it.
Tove Jansson
#8. I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.
Alden Ehrenreich
#9. Anytime you get out of your comfort zone and you have to do something that you're not comfortable doing and that you're not real sure of yourself in, there's an exhilaration that comes along with that. I get off on it, so that's why I enjoy making movies.
Trace Adkins
#11. Sometimes a bit of compassion and decency is reason enough to do something out of the ordinary.
Ariel Lawhon
#12. It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.
Pete Seeger
#13. Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.
Richard Dawkins
#14. If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.
Chris Evans
#15. Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?
Vaclav Havel
#16. I married a woman from New Orleans, so I had family here. Post-Katrina, I had a number of friends call me up and say they wanted to do something to help the community - not just Habitat for Humanity or Red Cross, we've done that, but what can we do for the community.
James Coulter
#17. When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.
Neil Patrick Harris
#18. It's better to do something, even if you're attached to the results.
Frederick Lenz
#19. You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do something difficult, doing it first for himself. That's my definition of sincerity.
Neige
#20. Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
Pearl Bailey
#21. I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
James McAvoy
#22. You know," he said. He paused a minute, as though picking his words carefully. "It's okay to disappoint people sometimes. It's okay for us to say no simply because we don't want to do something." Intellectually,
Lisa Unger
#23. Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
Vance Packard
#24. Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way.
Paul Singer
#25. I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about.
Alton Brown
#27. It's fun, I didn't have enough money as a kid to buy a drum set, so I had to do something. I would mimic the sounds. That was it. And it worked. It worked for years.
John DiMaggio
#28. I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
Earl Campbell
#29. Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'
Sheldon Richman
#30. I think every woman would want to do something about their cellulite!
Tyra Banks
#31. I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.
Masuji Ibuse
#32. If your intuition is telling you not to do something, then don't. Your intuition is not stupid.
Martin Niemoller
#33. To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.
Tibor Kalman
#34. People think you have only to 'tell' a person that he 'ought' to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter.
C. G. Jung
#35. They'd be complaining about having to walk, and screeching at me to 'do something, Freddy, do something!'"
"But what could you do?" she said, puzzled.
"Carry them, probably." He gave her a hopeful look. "Do you want me to carry you?
Anne Gracie
#36. Have you ever found yourself saying, "There ought to be a law against this," or, "Somebody should do something"? Well, here's the good news - you can be the one to do something. You can be the one to make the law.
Victoria Stoklasa MA
#37. I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.
Mike Huckabee
#38. For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit ... We mean to appeal to their intellects ... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.
Frank Crowninshield
#39. Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek - people who were always trying to do something else - I wanted to follow in their footsteps. They gave people a different perspective of how women were supposed to look like and be.
Paula Garces
#40. It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.
Elizabeth Taylor
#41. It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.
Jonathan Ive
#42. I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.
Lewis Thomas
#43. In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.
Phil Everly
#44. It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.
John Lewis
#45. I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else's radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it.
Sheryl Lee Ralph
#46. I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
Rainn Wilson
#47. Either you don't know how to
do something or you choose not to do something. There is no CANT!
Marshall Sylver
#48. If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!
Joichi Ito
#49. The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.
Larry Gelbart
#50. Caring about the environment has always been a big part of my life. When you grow up in a really beautiful place and you hear that it is jeopardised you want to do something.
KT Tunstall
#51. I build my life so that I don't wake up for anything. Ever. If you make me get up early to do something with you, I will hate you and resent you and figure out a way of never having to work with you ever again.
Douglas Coupland
#52. You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#53. Whether I'm unduly sensitive to this pain because I'm a princess - could the whole world be the pea under my mattress? - I don't know, but because I'm a princess, I might be able to do something to help lessen humanity's pain.
Tom Robbins
#54. I do the work just because I enjoy it on the day, working with the guys. For me, it's like going to play a game of baseball: you've got your teammates, you get to do something that's fun, hopefully, and whatever happens with that stuff is in the cosmos someplace.
William Petersen
#55. One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment ... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#56. I exercise a lot. I enjoy exercising. I switch back and forth with cardio and strength training every other day, and I try to do something active every single day. Other than that, I try to make sure I have enough quiet time to myself to recharge every week as well.
Rhea Seehorn
#57. A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
A.R. Rahman
#58. You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.
Paul Keating
#59. I was not in a good space in my life, emotionally particularly, so I needed to do something to recharge my batteries emotionally and musically. I took a break and I learnt software and programming a little bit, and that's how I designed my live machine, which I've been using for years.
Jamie Lidell
#60. Each week set 1 day aside to do something you've always wanted to do.
Denis Waitley
#61. Dimka said angrily: "Why the hell do you risk everything for the sake of an empty protest?" "We live in a brutal tyranny," she said. "We have to do something to keep hope alive." "We
Ken Follett
#63. We are supposed to do something with these/Damn hearts of ours, and we are meant to love and be loved.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#64. The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.
Clemence Poesy
#65. That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.
Taryn Manning
#66. Stubborn' just means you don't want to do something somebody else wants you to do, and 'annoying' just means somebody else is frustrated that you won't obey them.
Orson Scott Card
#67. If you want to do something, you find a way.
Amber Heard
#68. You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!
Gunther Schuller
#69. If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There's absolutely no reason to import Mexicans to do something they could do at home and then sell to us. I believe this is what economists call "competitive advantage".
Ann Coulter
#70. A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.
Cinda Williams Chima
#71. By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.
Michael Ian Black
#72. Auditions are so much fun. A lot of people dread auditions; they think they have to do it in order to get the job. I don't really mind if I don't get the job, as long as I get to do something interesting in the audition. It makes me feel more creative as a person.
Chris Geere
#73. For most developers, that kind of situation - a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend - to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration.
Warren Spector
#74. People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.
Kurt Cobain
#75. Gansey was full of the knowledge that he needed to do something about Ronan Lynch before Ronan did something about Ronan Lynch. Christmas was a dangerous time to be a broken thing.
Maggie Stiefvater
#76. Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.
Andrew-Lee Potts
#77. I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.
Chris Jericho
#78. Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
Ella Maillart
#79. I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me.
Marcel Duchamp
#80. I'd never ask an actor to do something I couldn't do - not that I'm the best actor in the world - but if I can do it, then I know that anyone I hire can do these things.
Rob Reiner
#81. We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.
Bear Bryant
#82. Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something
Dennis Prager
#84. Being on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact.
Victor Buono
#85. Make a commitment to do something, anything, every day to make your creative life a real part of your daily routine.
Barbara Delaney
#87. In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.
Roone Arledge
#88. I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.
Danielle Panabaker
#89. If you're gonna learn how to do something, you'd better learn to do it right.
Christopher McDonald
#90. Feeling ready to do something doesn't mean feeling certain you'll succeed, though of course that's what you're hoping to do. Truly being ready means understanding what could go wrong - and having a plan to deal with it.
Chris Hadfield
#92. How many people ever get a chance to do something that they really believe in?
Terry Fox
#93. What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
Barry McCaffrey
#94. People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
Carine Roitfeld
#95. I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books ... really is important.
Cynthia Rylant
#96. Valerie stood with the other women, watching the men go. She couldn't help bristling at this division of the sexes. Her fingers itched to hold a weapon, too, to do something, to kill something with her anger.
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
#97. I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.
Bjorn Lomborg
#98. I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that's kind of how things happen - sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.
Noel Wells
#99. I did 'Mala Noche' as a way to do something that was outside of the system, because I was outside of the system, and I deliberately chose material that Hollywood wouldn't touch in a million years.
Gus Van Sant
#100. If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don't be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.
Joyce Meyer
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