Top 100 What I Am Doing Quotes
#2. No, what I am doing is kind by telling people who are useless 'Do something that you're good at'.
Simon Cowell
#3. Texas Democrats should be more concerned about what President Obama is doing to destroy the party, and the nation, than about what I am doing in going after him for that.
Kesha Rogers
#4. I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don't be angry with me for something good I've done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.
Jennifer Hudson
#5. I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.
Matt Damon
#6. I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.
Klaus Nomi
#7. My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.
Neil Young
#8. I don't care anymore, don't you understand that? I am doing what I am doing because I must do it. And when everything ends my ultimate reward is that I end with it, because I cannot stand to be a part of a creation that did what it did to you.
Matthew Head
#9. Power Thought: I am able to keep my mind on track and focus on what I am doing.
Joyce Meyer
#10. I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.
Friedrich St. Florian
#11. There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in what I am doing and readers love them. And why not? They are harmless and they are fun.
Sara Craven
#12. What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?
Charles Yu
#13. American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
Imelda May
#14. One of the best antidotes for depression is to look around and see what you can do to help out - to make a difference - for now and the future. Now is the future, for what I do right now is the future. For what I am doing right now is already affecting tomorrow.
Horst Rechelbacher
#15. Where is truth? Is there truth in what I am doing now?
Frederick Lenz
#16. I honestly don't think that I am cool enough or important enough that anyone would care about what I am doing at all hours of the day like "I just had a latte from Starbucks and now I am going to Barney's. Love me some shoes!"
Megan Fox
#17. Ask an eight-year-old kid or see his face when he sees a car being blown up. They come to me, ask me what I am doing next. They loved 'Singham' because there were so many cars, and that's why there was no blood, because I knew they will come to watch my film.
Rohit Shetty
#18. I just really always try to do what's in my heart and I'm still passionate about the music; I still love what I am doing.
Teena Marie
#19. Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/
John C. Maxwell
#20. I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
Rafael Nadal
#21. I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.
Margaret Cho
#22. Even going to college, getting my degree in Radio TV and Film, as I was approaching the time when you have to decide on a major, I kept trying to figure out what would be the best major to enhance what I am doing as a performer.
Jeff Dunham
#23. That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
V.S. Naipaul
#24. It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.
Rohit Shetty
#25. When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.
Saoirse Ronan
#26. I'm fighting against my will to control. I think that is what I am doing. I would like to accept things in life, in all matters of life I would like to accept, but it's so difficult. I think we all have this struggle.
Lars Von Trier
#27. I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.
Bill Budge
#28. The most important thing is to be happy myself with what I am doing.
Rokia Traore
#29. I am like a decapitated pine. Pine trees do not regenerate their tops. They stay twisted, crippled.They grow in thickness, perhaps, and that is what I am doing.
Malcolm Gladwell
#30. I pray because I am real clear that what I am doing and how I am doing it is my service, is my ministry, and so I want to be in perfect alignment with my creator. I do not care who you are. If I do not get the okay on the inside, you will not be showing up on the outside.
Iyanla Vanzant
#31. I don't even need to know precisely what I am doing, except that I am acting for the love of God.
Thomas Merton
#32. If any man wants to gain a good opinion of his fellow men, he ought to do what I am doing: pester them with letters.
Charles Darwin
#33. I love what I am doing. I have a wonderful business. I have a wonderful television show that's doing - continues to do phenomenally in the ratings. I mean, it's been really a lot of fun.
Donald Trump
#34. It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away.
Nicholas Sparks
#35. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.
Michael Schenker
#37. I am a hundred-percent Indian traditionalist! I am not "playing anything" - that is for the media to be able to say what I am doing.
Trilok Gurtu
#38. But what about the secret I bear?" I asked.
"Tell it to the world," he advised.
And that is what I am doing.
Emile Habiby
#39. If I accept that a book must end, I will finish it tonight. What I am doing now is to postpone this orgasm as much as I can.
Paulo Coelho
#40. No matter where I am in my life, no matter what I am doing, I will never be far from you in my heart. I may be moving on, but I'm not moving away from you. You will always be in my soul, a part of my present, and a fleeting dream for my future." ~Emma Ranstein
Lindsay Detwiler
#41. I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.
Eric Massa
#42. I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
Edgar Winter
#43. 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
#44. Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.
Brennan Manning
#45. There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing.
Alanis Morissette
#46. I don't know what I am doing tomorrow. But I know one thing for sure: the day I stop enjoying my work, I will pack up and leave.
Sonakshi Sinha
#47. Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I am doing? If there isn't, then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.
Eckhart Tolle
#48. Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.
Lisa See
#49. You're with me," Dan murmured against Vadim's lips. "In my thoughts, my heart, my mind, no matter what I am doing. I goddamned need you, and I want you - always.
Aleksandr Voinov
#50. On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.
James Corden
#51. The children should never be excluded from what I am doing and should never have the feeling of being part of an audience.
Bob Keeshan
#52. I get a lot of emails where people are writing me their experiences, how they discovered my music, what they feel ... they motivate me to carry on with what I am doing.
Volker Bertelmann
#53. Flannery revealed she had been working on the novel "a year and a half and will probably be two more years finishing it." She described her writing habits in a letter dated July 13: "I must tell you how I work. I don't have my novel outlined and I have to write to discover what I am doing.
Flannery O'Connor
#54. I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?
Dyan Cannon
#55. I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.
Henry Rollins
#56. I just love to draw. It's very intense for me. The day will just go by like the snap of a finger. A lot of times I'll draw or paint late into the night. When I am really concentrating, I kind of lose track of what I am doing.
Jan Brett
#57. I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
Manoj Bhargava
#58. As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
Sam Riley
#59. I wake up and tear drops, they fall down like rain. I put on that old song we danced to and then, I head off to my job cause not much has changed. Punch the clock, head for home, check the phone. Just in case. Go to bed, dream of you. That's what I am doing these days.
Rascal Flatts
#60. To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.
Jimmy Wales
#61. I'm a hugger of both men and women. As it turns out that those are taken in an offensive manner, I need to have a greater sense of awareness of what I am doing, and we will correct that, and I am taking those steps.
Bob Filner
#62. But, then, every gesture made by a human being is sacred and full of consequences, and that makes me think even more about what I am doing.
Paulo Coelho
#63. You keep me here. You can't live in a world where you don't know where and what I am doing. We inside each others souls.
Chimnese Davids
#64. I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie ... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.
Rosie Perez
#65. I was a ballerina for a good 12 years. When I was 15 I had to stop. It wasn't a choice, it was an injury that prevented me from going forward in ballet unfortunately. Well, fortunately because I wouldn't be doing what I am doing now if that had not happened.
Kiesza
#66. We laughed at the hollyhocks together and then I sprayed them with lye. Forgive me. I simply do not know what I am doing.
William Carlos Williams
#67. Of what are you thinking now?" she asked.
"I am thinking of myself."
"That's just what I am doing."
"Are you also thinking of yourself?"
"No, of yourself - of you, Mogens.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
#68. I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.
Joan Rivers
#69. I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.
Reinhold Messner
#70. For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.
Pablo Picasso
#71. I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.
Gregory Harrison
#72. Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.
Betty White
#73. My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.
Jami Attenberg
#74. I love singing for people who are loving what I am doing.
Karen Mason
#75. But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
Javier Bardem
#76. If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?
Richard Hamming
#77. My concern is not the fact that other people don't understand where I am coming from, even though Christians are supposed to be doing what I am doing
Sunday Adelaja
#78. Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.
Marion Milner
#79. Oh my God, everyday is a constant struggle and battle. Especially with an artist like me, when what I am doing is not the in thing, it is harder to break someone like me. And I'm a woman too, it's ridiculous.
Syleena Johnson
#80. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I am doing.
Wernher Von Braun
#81. I do feel my fan base, my community understands me and appreciates me very deeply, and that is the wind in my sails to keep doing what I am doing. I know that my work really inspires people and they tell me that all the time, and so that's wonderful.
Ondi Timoner
#82. Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.
Alberta Hunter
#83. I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.
Rhys Ifans
#84. I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.
Rafael Nadal
#85. I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
Magic Johnson
#86. I really don't like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.
Jim Sturgess
#87. I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.
Antonio Banderas
#88. The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.
Vincent Van Gogh
#89. The thing that keeps me going is that I love what I am doing. And I stay young because I don't hang around old people, if you hang around old people you are going to become old!
Bob Proctor
#90. As usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.
George Eliot
#91. I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
Upton Sinclair
#92. I don't demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#93. I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.
Cassandra Clare
#94. How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.
Christian Slater
#95. Let me offer this apology. Please excuse this self-indulgent preface. I know what I am doing. I am presenting a series of reasons as to why you should lower your expectations, so that you can be blown away by my sneaky insights about life and work. I am a grown woman. I know my own tricks!
Amy Poehler
#96. Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.
Ayn Rand
#97. I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
Gary Lineker
#98. I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.
Flannery O'Connor
#99. I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.
Roscoe Mitchell
#100. There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing,
or what I have done - nothing mostly, but sometimes
it would be nice to know what kind of nothing that was ...
Anne Enright
