Doing Quotes
On action, effort and the discipline of doing the work.
These lines describe doing in its many forms: the overlap between film and television production, the uncertainty built into research, and committing to work you believe in even without much recognition. For more, see our Action quotes.
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
A really big thing I've learned - and I think it's so liberating - is when you realize no one knows what they're doing.
My job is to show them clearly what they are doing, and what they are doing wrong on the pitch. To help them know why and understand why, even if you prepare and understand the plan, why you are doing...
It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.
I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.
I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a...
We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is...
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.
I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy that part.
Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
Perhaps I created the monster Ramsay, who ended up as a TV personality screaming at celebrities on 'Hell's Kitchen,' doing to them what I had done to him.
Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost.
I think calling what Paul Ryan is doing a 'budget' is lending some validity to it. It is not a budget. If it were a budget, he could justify his revenue projections, he could justify his cuts, and he can't....
We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?
One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.
In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides of an object forced us to break the object up - or, even better, to project a panorama...
I feel that, for each show I've been doing, there's a character that dominates. Then in the next show it plays a smaller part, and then in the next it has a sort of cameo piece. So they all have...
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Also see our Doing Good quotes for a values-driven angle, or Doers quotes celebrating people who take action.
