Top 100 What We Do Quotes
#1. We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.
Jon Meacham
#2. Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
Oscar Wilde
#3. It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point?
There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us.
D.R. Hedge
#4. You are what you do. That's what I'm trying to tell you. What we do defines us. However we behave, conduct our lives ... that's real. The rest is a story for publication.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#5. Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.
Adrian Grenier
#6. What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.
Siobhan Davies
#7. When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.
Dennis Wholey
#8. Einstein once said that if you have one hand on a hot plate and one hand in a freezer, on average you will be comfortable. This is what we do in love, I suppose. Once you have been really burned, you put your hand in the freezer, so that you don't get scalded. It seems the reasonable thing to do.
Mark D'Arbanville
#9. There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie
#10. That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.
Margot Robbie
#11. What we do at the end of every season - which is why it's probably not the greatest idea to talk about things in the visitor's locker room after the final game - we sit down and have real serious conversations with all of the senior people.
Jeffrey Lurie
#12. We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!
C. JoyBell C.
#13. What we do Yesterday is done, believing in the things for Tomorrow is a maybe, what we do today hopefully we can remember it tomorrow as a memorable day.
Jan Jansen
#14. Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
John Ortberg
#15. Meddling is what we do. It's what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the universe. Fingers will get burnt along the way, yes. That's the way of it.
Alastair Reynolds
#16. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Dave Eggers
#18. And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.
Gunther Schuller
#19. Our past is what shapes us, the scars it leaves behind mold us, and what we do with the shit that's left over is what defines us.
Gail McHugh
#21. Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.
John L. Phillips
#22. What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Napoleon Hill
#23. I'm half Asian, so people immediately go, "Oh, you do kung fu," like that's what we do. We wake up, we do kung fu, we brush our teeth. It's just assumed that you're not working your ass off to make this believable and make this something great, and we absolutely are.
Maggie Q
#24. So few of us really think. What we do is rearrange our prejudges.
George Vincent
#25. It's a very performative thing, grief. As with so much in modern life, I think there's a whole performative layer to what we do because we feel like there's a private TV show viewing our lives.
Darin Strauss
#26. Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.
George R R Martin
#27. The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
J.M. Coetzee
#28. Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.
Albert Einstein
#29. Accountability is the natural product of agency and is the basis of the plan of life. We are responsible for our own actions and accountable to God for what we choose to do with our lives. Life is God's gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to him.
Elaine Cannon
#30. No matter how we or others may evaluate what we do, ministry that's based on biblical principles will meet human needs and glorify God.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#31. If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.
Harold S. Kushner
#32. Let the beauty we love do what we do.
Rumi
#33. One of the things that we hope to do with 'Pitchmen' is to give people an appreciation of what we do.
Billy Mays
#34. I don't care whether you are me or Michael Jordan, it makes no difference we are all going to feel that way but it is what we do about what we feel that isn't comfortable that separates the people who do really well verses the people who just meek out existence.
John Assaraf
#35. I'll just tuck that in my pocket for another day, because I'm a woman and that's what we do. We save stuff for later, in case we need it sometime. And with men, we always end up cashing in that chip. They're just as moody as we are, though they'll never admit it in a million years.
Winter Renshaw
#36. As chief scientist, it's sort of my job to look at bridges between what we do and to see the connections. But when we try to understand how are planets around other stars habitable ... to looking back at the Earth - how are the changes that are taking place, how are they going to affect humanity?
Ellen Stofan
#37. What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.
Alan Redpath
#38. I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
Jesse Ventura
#39. There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
Taylor Hanson
#40. America was born out of despair & we'll all go through it in our lifetime. It's what we do with it that will help determine our greatness!
Timothy Pina
#41. Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.
Marianne Williamson
#42. It's what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters.
Ali Smith
#43. But mostly we're fairly light-hearted because we have to be. People die here, and if we ever stopped and thought carefully about what we do, then we might not do it at all. If
Jodi Taylor
#44. Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are.
Collin H. Woodward
#45. Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.
Ellen Pompeo
#46. Between the moment we are born and the moment we die, life is what we do not to get bored.
Ben Tolosa
#47. Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.
Libba Bray
#48. Or you could simply throw down a few inches of compost and fake it. That's what we do, isn't it? Do the best with what we have? It's not lying, dear. Don't look at it that way. It's hopeful pretending. Consider it your patriotic duty.
Na
#49. Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?
Karen Maezen Miller
#50. This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can't stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.
Larry Duberstein
#51. We all get 24 hours a day ... It's up to us as to what we do with those 24 hours.
Sam Huff
#52. Winning is one of the most special moments. Every time I take the field it's a special moment. The fans are the ones that make it special. Because that's what we do it for.
Derek Jeter
#53. Blu-ray and the technologies emerging around it are the premiere format for reproducing what we do as filmmakers. There's more space on the disc, more bit rate.
Michael Mann
#55. Because failure isn't what shapes us, it's what we do after we fail.
J.S. Cooper
#56. How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Honore De Balzac
#57. We're all dying," Sergeant Hawkins replied. "From the moment we are born, we begin our journey toward eminent death. All that matters is what we do with the time and gifts we've been given." But
Cameo Renae
#58. I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.
Rupert Grint
#60. How do you actually green the supply chain is a challenge. The easier part is to do what we do; the difficult part is to get all your clients to long process will take time.
Jamshyd Godrej
#61. Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#62. I don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and who want to learn more about what's going on. I do find people with a lot of opinions. And I get a lot of people who come up to me and give us props for what we do.
Serj Tankian
#63. We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.
Plato
#64. If we go into the visit with both parties knowing what's going on, then we can spend the visit talking about what we do about it.
Robert Wachter
#65. The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap."
Leo Errera
#66. Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
Fernando Pessoa
#67. Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?
T.A. Barron
#68. Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again.
J.W. Lord
#69. The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.
Jim Doyle
#70. What we do here, matters. What we make here, matters. How we serve here, matters. If it is only about our destiny in the world to come, this world becomes a mere means to our true end; every person merely an object of evangelism.
James K. Wellman Jr.
#71. our "gathering" - or what people used to call "church" - is an aspect of what we do, but not the only thing. The gathering is where we . . . gather. That's it. It's a place that anyone can come to and not feel any pressure at any level.
Hugh Halter
#72. We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are
Alan Ryan
#73. Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
Aeschylus
#74. I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.
Robert Fulghum
#75. He seemed genuinely astonished. "You admire me?"
"Yes," she said gravely. "All of us do things we regret
that's part of being human. And sometimes, I think, moral quality reveals itself not so much in what we do, but in what we later say about what we have done ...
Alexander McCall Smith
#76. Because we're not what we eat. We're what we do, and what we sacrifice, and what we love. And if we choose right more often than we choose wrong, we become who we want to be.
Greg Van Eekhout
#77. What we do to others will come back to us. You can't expect to be happy by causing unhappiness to others.
Sharon Gannon
#78. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: we take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.
Jodi Picoult
#79. Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.
Michael Dowd
#80. We all get our share of tragedy or insanity or drama, but what we do with that horror is what makes all the difference. I
Jenny Lawson
#81. ... said them for my benefit as much as hers [daughter]. "Honey, it's okay to want things we don't have, but we also need to remember what we do have. If we are going to compare ourselves to those who have more, we must also compare ourselves to those who have less.
Kristen Welch
#82. The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.
P.D. Ouspensky
#83. I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.
Eric Schmidt
#84. Do you like to read?" Christine asked. "That's what we do when we come up here. That's our idea of relaxation.
Cheryl Strayed
#85. We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.
James Mattis
#86. I don't care if you broke, you grew up broke ... you grew up rich. You only get 24hrs in a day! We all only get 24 hours in a day. It's what we do with it that makes the difference!
Eric Thomas
#87. Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.
Joyce Rachelle
#88. What we do sometimes when we're in the sessions recording the dialogue is we'll set up a video camera and we'll video the whole session. So then the animator, if he wants, can draw upon those tapes to pull expressions, mouth shapes, maybe some gesturing that happens.
Kevin Lima
#89. We are not only what we do, we are also what we imagine.
Bill Bryson
#90. I don't think we should really be judging on Chris Brown like that until we know what Rihanna did. We all got reasons for what we do. Look at me. I'm one of the top 10 performers of all-time. I had to beat this one mermaid ass in a seafood restaurant over some shrimps. No lie. You just never know.
Coolio
#91. That's half of what we do our daily lives - we react to our surroundings. Of course, we have to make it entertaining, and we are entertainers.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#92. There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.
Desmond Tutu
#93. Staying curious and open is what makes growth
possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the temptation to slide into narrow, safe views of what we do.
Scott Berkun
#94. That's what we do, man, we're like storytellers. We tell you stories from the streets. Whether we did it before when we was young or we heard it from one of the homies telling us a tale of what he been through. It's all in having fun and creating a movie like vibe to tell a tale from the streets.
Kurupt
#95. There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do - or would want to see in real life.
James Patterson
#96. It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don't spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy.
Richard Branson
#97. With Bruford, the album was One Of A Kind. All-instrumental, it possessed the kind of focused vision that allowed for no ifs or buts. With the unnerving confidence of youth, it had This Is What We Do And This Is How We Do It stamped all over it.
Bill Bruford
#98. As Zapffe concluded, we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision of what we do not want to see,
Thomas Ligotti
#99. Ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them
Austin Kleon
#100. Ice shows give us the opportunity to forget ourselves and just perform. They are amazing opportunities to be in front of audience to try out new material, to show new costuming. It's an incredible opportunity to do what we do without the stress of worrying about what a judge is going to say.
Johnny Weir
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