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.
My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.
When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like...
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You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.
It has been an honor to manage such a magnificent club as Manchester United FC, and in doing so, I have fulfilled a long-held ambition.
You can always spot the professionals. Taylor Swift, she knows what she's doing.
'Captain America' I love, and that would be great, but c'mon, a Frenchman doing 'Captain America?' They would burn my passport.
I am 33 years old, and what can I have been doing that I still am in a muddle? But everyone else is, too; maybe our muddles are concurrent.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.
I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right...
Once I'm on the phone, I just can't say no. I sometimes find myself doing things for three or four organizations in one day.
I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.
I used to take circus lessons. I dreamt of being picked up in the street because they saw me doing something circus-like.
I made an enormous amount of money in the record business as a result of owning so much of what I was doing... I owned all those albums and continued to own my catalog.
To be doing interviews in 2006 for a band I was kicked out of in 1989 - a band that I never thought I would play for again - in a way, it's weird.
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Also see our Doing Good quotes for a values-driven angle, or Doers quotes celebrating people who take action.
