Quotes About Doing

I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins of mythology.

The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies, almost nobody was doing the same for the silents. Now there are plenty of very good historians and restorers.

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me "a legend".(…) A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things.

The new dimensions of the message are examples of the Spirit of truth doing what Jesus promised he would do: continuing

Our quality of being determines our quality of doing.

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Seeking a balance between doing and being is complex. But as my friend Lisa Whelchel reminds me, we're human beings, not human doings. Perhaps it's best, then, to err on the side of less doing and more being, to spend time in thankful quiet each day before racing and chasing in this hurried and harried culture of ours.

Life is filled with pain and beauty. It's a journey, a learning experience. You've always been a girl who has had to learn by doing, not by watching and listening--don't change that. Don't change that now--you're too young.

You can think of the difference between tactical and strategic oversight as the difference between doing things right and doing the right things. Both are required.

Yea, if a man have all knowledge, he may yet be nothing, and so, consequently, be no child of God. When Christ said, "Do you know all these things?" and the disciples had answered yes, he added, "Blessed are ye if ye do them." He doth not lay the blessing in the knowing of them, but in the doing of them: "He that knoweth his Master's will, and doeth not." A man may know like an angel, and yet be no Christian.

YouTube can sometimes be really discouraging. When I first started doing it, I almost stopped doing it.

I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.

You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, you know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.

Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

The whole point of doing the pay what you want is to be reasonable with the fans.

I'm not making every decision due to my children. But I do hope they never see some movies I'm doing. But I do want to do more family-friendly movies.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

and a tendency to take offense at an inefficient, suboptimal way of doing things.

Many skills, as every successful entrepreneur knows, cannot be taught in school. They require doing. Sometimes a life of doing. And where money-making is concerned, nothing compresses the time frame needed to leap from my-shit-just-sits-there-until-it-rains poverty to which-of-my-toilets-shall-I-use affluence like an apprenticeship with someone who already has the angles all figured out.

It was their responsibility to do the terrible thing for everyone else. To bear the scars of it like a burden, as if there was something noble in doing something so horrible that most people couldn't stand doing it, for the sake of those squeamish people.

I love doing these little collaborations. We collaborate with Stubbs & Wooton on the shoes for Michael Bastian.

I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me.