What You Did Quotes

#1. There are some things in this world you can never get back ... There's no reclaiming that piece of the past. Don't you think it'd be better to abandon it completely and consider instead what you did wrong and learn from it?

Fuyumi Ono

#2. I may not remember ... what you said.
I may not remember ... what you did,
but,
I will remember ...
The way you made me feel

Arafath Shanas

#3. Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.

Jake Owen

#4. And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, 'I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

#6. What have I done to anger you, mate?"
"That. That's what you did. I'm not your mate."
He leaned in close and ran his nose up her neck, inhaling a deep breath. "Yes, you are," he whispered next to her ear.

Virginia Cavanaugh

#7. What matters more? What you said you'd do, what you hoped to do, or what you did?

Ron Kaufman

#8. I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

Mother Teresa

#9. Sit down, son. It's all over. No-one will ever forget what you did here today

Eddie Futch

#10. Getting more information is learning, and so is coming to understand what you did not understand before. But there is an important difference between these two kinds of learning.

Mortimer J. Adler

#11. The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday ... Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

Stan Coveleski

#12. I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

Jamie Lawson

#13. It's not about what you said. It's not about what you did. It's not about what you love. It's about them feeling bad about themselves.

Wil Wheaton

#14. The only mistake you have made is asking the wrong question. It isn't about what you did wrong. It's what you have not yet done.

Holly Lynn Payne

#15. If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

Damon Galgut

#16. By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.

Andrew Dice Clay

#17. I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

Fred Rogers

#18. I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.

Lars Mikkelsen

#19. Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL.

Guy Lafleur

#20. The planet is sending out two unmanned craft
to determine what you did to me
I am requesting a copy
of their findings

which I would send to you
if I had your address
or any stamps.

Chris Emslie

#21. One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, 'Don't get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.

Chris Ware

#22. Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.

Andrew Luck

#23. What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Jodi Picoult

#24. People will not remember what you did for living,
they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.

Debasish Mridha

#25. It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.

Willem Dafoe

#26. No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

Madonna

#27. Maybe you should accept the fact that you've tried to be someone you're not for so long that no matter what you did, those bastards were never happy. They were never satisfied. They never gave a damn, did they?

Tahereh Mafi

#28. Do you really think you can just walk back in here and expect us all to cooperate after what you did?"

"Would it help at all if I said I was sorry?

E.J. Fisch

#29. You can not kill what you did not create.

Slipknot

#30. Great leaders focus on equipping their team. It is unfair to expect what you did not equip.

Chris Hogan

#31. You are strong," I whispered. "I don't know what happened to you, I don't know what you did, but I know that if you can stand in front of me tonight and still be kind, that makes you strong.

Sierra Simone

#32. Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

Cameron Diaz

#33. If you love your dad, it's tough when he dies. If you don't like your dad, it's tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn't get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.

Jimmy Iovine

#34. ...what was important, what mattered, was not the fact of being afraid, but what you did, the choices you made, when you were afraid. And maybe that was something to do with being alive--or staying dead.

Graham Gardner

#35. What you did in the past is how you got to today. What you do today is how you will get to the future.

Ron Kaufman

#36. Good luck explaining to God that you used to spank one of his heavenly beings."
Mom gave a startled laugh. "Sophie!"
"What? You did. I hope you like hot weather, Mom, that's all I'm saying.

Rachel Hawkins

#37. Now and then may not be enough ... You have to enjoy it while you're still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can use the memories of what you did to warm your body after you get old and can't do it anymore.

Haruki Murakami

#38. When I was a kid and an adult asked for me something, I fucking gave it. Because that's what you did. Adults were adults, no matter who they were. Their word ruled. You didn't consider what they could or couldn't do to you and weigh your options. I

Candice Fox

#39. I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.

Richard Linklater

#40. It is not the years that count; what counts is what you did in those years.

Debasish Mridha

#41. We don't care about what you did yesterday - we care about what you're going to do tomorrow.

Cory Doctorow

#42. I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time.

Mat Kearney

#43. I have learned from Twitter that you get that instant feedback about what people think about what you did.

David Nail

#44. Bravery isn't what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.

Tim Sandlin

#45. You do not just get to know what you did not know when you travel to the right scenery, but you get to know the real reasons behind what you did not know when you go on an expedition!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#46. In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'

Bill Bryson

#47. Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

Liza Cody

#48. Tristan?" he asked softly.

"What, hon?"

"Tell me what you did every night thinking of me," he said in a husky voice.

Candi Kay

#49. Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did while rendering my heart strings, you thought you were only uprooting your bad propensities.

Charlotte Bronte

#50. Show me what you did to yourself while I was away, and I'll give you a reward.

Sherilee Gray

#51. tell me what you're going to do, tell me what you're doing, tell me what you did

Troy Devolld

#52. If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use what you have to do something distinctive now and leave a notable footprint before you go

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#53. If you want people to support you, then you have to support them. You have to think long about what you did for people who voted for you, made phone calls for you, who went door to door for you.

Alan Grayson

#54. What she did was harmless. What you did, man, was begging to get laid.

Piper Shelly

#55. The problem with dictatorships - as I read somewhere recently - and with poisonous ideologies, too, is that they are like sharks. They must keep moving forward or die. What caused their aggression is not what you did. It's who they are.

Robert A. Heinlein

#56. Childhood is like being Drunk!
Everyone remembers what you did,
Except you!

IAn

#57. Buddhists advise us to "act always as if the future of the universe depended on what you did, while laughing at yourself for thinking that whatever you do makes any difference." This serious playfulness makes it possible to be both engaged and carefree at the same time.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#58. You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That's what you did. That's not who you are.

Joel Osteen

#59. There's so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you're a natural hitter. There's so much to think about in the field, you don't have time to think about what you did at the plate last time. 'How did he get me out?'

Lou Boudreau

#60. You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.

Chuck D

#61. All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.

Kurt Vonnegut

#62. The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.

Hayden Panettiere

#63. Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

Neil Gaiman

#64. One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did.

Eddie Money

#65. At the end of the day, we are responsible for our own lives. If anything happens to us, don't blame somebody else. Backtrack and look at what you did to contribute to that. You also contribute to your successes. Once you learn that, you're on your way.

Isaac Hayes

#66. What you did was not only very kind, but brave and honorable.

Peter Cimino

#67. Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do you know what you did?' And I'd say, 'What?' And they'd go, 'I wrote these songs down for you to sing, and you sang them all in a row.' But that's the kind of communication that happens, you know.

Richie Havens

#68. In the immortal words of Maya Angelou ... people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#69. For the most part, having more money and more fame make your life harder. It just does. I've seen it happen with people. You know, it's so hard to stay normal. It's so hard to stay happy. It's hard to remember why you were doing what you did in the first place.

Rashida Jones

#70. No one remembers how you got a chance, they only remember what you did with it.

Stewart Stafford

#71. We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't sit down and have a conversation about what you did in bed last night with your friends. Despite the ubiquity of sex, it's still a taboo when it comes to day-to-day conversation.

Mary Roach

#72. Come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did
this time i'll be ready i like it rough now and i'm done with romance i never met another man who loved me so much at first sight he had to hurt me to do it

Daphne Gottlieb

#73. Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they'd pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you.

Cassandra Clare

#74. Don't worry about what you did yesterday, he said, often, worry about what you haven't done today.

Lucy Dillon

#75. To believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all" - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.

Frederick Buechner

#76. Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are.

David D. Burns

#77. At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.

Paul Feig

#78. Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#79. You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't have to just walk around and play golf or doing nothing. It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter.

Sharon Stone

#80. What you did is not nearly as important as what you are going to do.

Tyler Shields

#81. If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
And that's when I realize: I'm not the messenger at all. I'm the message.

Markus Zusak

#82. 'Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly ... I can't tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, 'We want to do what you did with 'Batman' but with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' or whatever.

David S.Goyer

#83. I don't care what you did yesterday. If you're happy with that, you have bigger problems.

Nick Saban

#84. As much as I hate auditioning - it's so hard and awkward - it's way better to walk out of that room and win a role because of what you did.

Jessica Biel

#85. Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel.

Cassandra Clare

#86. Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

William Pollard

#87. It's not about what you did yesterday, it's what you do tomorrow. If you rely too much on yesterday, tomorrow is going to jump up and bite you in the pants.

John Vanbiesbrouck

#88. If you do some wonderful service and if you tell people what you did in a boastful way, it nullifies the credit of your service, may not be in the eternal platform, but in your conscious condition you will not be able to reap the benefits of that service.

Radhanath Swami

#89. People say, "Now you've given up booze at least you can remember what you did last night." I say, "Yeah, nothing." - Frank Skinner

Jimmy Carr

#90. Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.

Michael Bassey

#91. I understand why you did what you did. Perhaps a part of me even admires you for it. But I can't forgive you for it.

Lorraine Heath

#92. We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.'

Dee Dee Myers

#93. They could not seem to grasp that what mattered was what you did. Not what you said or thought about.

Philipp Meyer

#94. If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

Nelson Mandela

#95. It doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. It doesn't even matter what you are. It's what you try to be that counts.

Gregory David Roberts

#96. The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.

Mark Lanegan

#97. What if you died, and you found out that when you died, we all went to the same place. No Heaven, no Hell, doesn't matter what you did in life - you all go to the same place, regardless. I know a lot of nice people who will be really pissed off. You'll see Gandhi arguing with the doorman.

Dana Gould

#98. You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that's what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and sadly, you know that what you did wasn't worth what you lost.

Donna Lynn Hope

#99. Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#100. I think that's the reality of the business. It's not about what you did. It's what have you done for me lately. We're in the production business. What you did before is irrelevant. Everyone knows that.

Don Davis