Quotes About Doing

I never considered myself an entertainer. I always felt I had to be connected to something meaningful, or it wasn't worth doing.

It's the reason I love doing TV - revisiting stories and characters and the length of the story arcs.

I was that hyperactive when I was growing up, I rarely sat still to watch sport. I was always out there 'doing.'

As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.

There are many ways you can impact the game, screening and doing other things that I can to just help the team.

I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.

With television, sometimes the writing is continuous and happening at every moment, and you'll get new pages at the last moment. We have to incorporate that into what it is that we're doing.

I'm very fortunate to get paid for something I love doing.

It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.

Redefining problems and failures as opportunities focuses our attention on insights to be gained rather than worrying about false starts or the risks we're taking. By focusing on doing, rather than planning, learning about the risks and pitfalls of ideas rather than trying to predict them with precision up-front, an experimental approach develops growth mind-set muscles.

I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.

One of my more hectoring voices, throughout my career, has been the one that says I ought to stop what I'm doing and make an outline.

I think my concern is I know my voice, and I know the kinds of landscapes that interest me, so my primary concern is doing the most I can with those voices and those landscapes.

I love shooting movies. I love the shots. That's the thing that I love doing, and I've just never been able to do it.

Mindfulness reminds us that it is possible to shift from a doing mode to a being mode through the application of attention and awareness.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

it's important to keep in mind that the best form of learning comes from experience. Learning by doing is the most effective teaching method, and the upcoming chapters in this book will show you how to do just that.

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.

I'm not really interested in doing a Bollywood film.

Successfully bringing jobs home requires serious policy and reforms that make America the place businesses want to plant and grow. You can't punish business into doing the things you want.