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Quotes About Doing

Our quality of being determines our quality of doing. (Thay).
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Nature does not often say See! to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply Here! to a body's cry of Where?
~ Thomas Hardy
I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.
~ Kathy Griffin
It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.
~ Kathy Najimy
Art will never leave me and never should. So as I go into the next part of the trip I hope it will be more creative and more work involved and less talk and more doing, seeing, learning, being, loving, feeling, maybe less feeling, and just work my ass off, 'cause that, my friend, is where it's at!
~ Keith Haring
And I knew them by name and reputation. And they were still doing fun things. To me, work was work and these guys weren't working. They were having a good time. Just like school.
~ Ken Thompson
But answering, He said to them, My mother and my brothers and sisters are these who the word of God are hearing and doing.
~ Kenneth S. Wuest
you did too! your eyes begged me, and you can't deny it. You couldn't see your eyes , so you have no idea what they were doing" A Protracted pause. Then, quite calmly, he said "I think thats the most illogical arguement i've ever heard".
~ Gena Showalter
Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good.
~ George Crabbe
The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily on what you're doing but if you're doing it well.
~ Dorothy Hamill
Truthfully, you're not your audience, so all that self-consciousness and all that - it gets in the way of you actually just being the best thing in whatever thing that you're doing.
~ Zelda Williams
Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.
~ Evelyn Glennie
What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.
~ Bono
The joy of doing the TV or something like 'Sacrifice' isn't really the process of doing it; the joy is going through this real-life experience.
~ Derren Brown
I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.
~ Edward Burns
I think a long-term TV show is probably not for me, but doing a few years of something could be interesting.
~ Ben Foster
It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.
~ George Eliot
I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.
~ Jim Goad
I think if you don't feel passionate about the first movie you're doing, in the end the project will lack something because you don't have enough experience to make the movie something special.
~ Anton Corbijn
At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
~ Gwen Stefani
To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.
~ Napoleon Hill
The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The antifragile loves randomness and uncertainty, which also means—crucially—a love of errors, a certain class of errors. Antifragility has a singular property of allowing us to deal with the unknown, to do things without understanding them—and do them well. Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This is really life, this is doing something in the world, and in the presence of it you can see why the creators of it regard your world, which seemed to you so important, the world whose business is the evolution and expression of thought and emotion, as insignificant.
~ Charles Dudley Warner