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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.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

Quotes by J. C. Watts

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

Quotes by J. Carter Brown

I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the...

Quotes by J. Cole

It's really hard to go put mascara on a lady in the mall, and people recognize you and ask you what you're doing there, and all you can think of saying is, 'I'm trying to make a living.'

Quotes by Ivory

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.

Quotes by Izaak Walton

I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I'm doing. And I want mainstream artists to respect me and accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English. I...

Quotes by J Balvin

I was doing worship as a lifestyle before it was a section at the bookstore.

Quotes by Israel Houghton

We're always trying to elevate the platform of Christian and gospel music, church music, worship music and not just elevate it to our comfortable corner of the earth that we maintain an international and global mindset for what we're doing.

Quotes by Israel Houghton

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

Quotes by Issey Miyake

I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.

Quotes by Itzhak Perlman

You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.

Quotes by Ivan Glasenberg

Up to now, economic development has always meant that people, instead of doing something, are enabled to buy it... Economic development has also meant that, after a time, people must buy the commodity because the conditions under which they could...

Quotes by Ivan Illich

I didn't want to go into the papal bureaucracy, so I thought of doing a postdoctoral thesis, which they call a 'Habilitation' in German universities, on alchemy in the work of Albert the Great.

Quotes by Ivan Illich

If the team is doing well, there are more chances to win individual prizes.

Quotes by Isco

I would be open to doing cinema anywhere in the world. I wouldn't want to restrict myself to a certain kind of cinema or a certain language or get typecast.

Quotes by Ishaan Khatter

I always figure, you come to a party, you gotta know somebody. And somebody leads to another person and leads to somebody else, somebody else. That's one of things that I really enjoy doing.

Quotes by Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

All the materialistic things I have been able to have over the last number of years are slowly being taken away from me. It's been really challenging but also it's been encouraging to myself to see what my God is...

Quotes by Israel Folau

I went on French television for 20 minutes. It was very embarrassing to have to say, 'I'm not dead. I'm well. I'm not ill, and I don't have AIDS.' I hated doing it, because it was so insulting to those...

Quotes by Isabelle Adjani

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

Quotes by Isabelle Holland

I always feel at home doing a little bit of action.

Quotes by Isaiah Mustafa

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does "doing" mean across these quotes?
The quotes use "doing" to describe the actual craft of working (film vs. TV production), following through on belief in your own work, playing certain kinds of roles, and even the nature of research itself.
Is there a quote comparing film and TV work?
Yes: "When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces." For more on taking action rather than just planning, see Action.
Is there a witty quote about research here?
Yes: "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing" is a short, self-aware take on the research process.
Does this page include anything about acting roles or casting?
Yes, one quote describes being cast more often as a villain-type ("more Iago than Hamlet") while insisting the real goal is playing people doing the right thing rather than simple villains. For more on positive action, see Doing Good.
Is there a quote about believing in your own work despite doubt?
Yes, one recalls finding award shows hard to watch early in a music career, "because I believed in what I was doing" even while unsure of having a real shot. For more short, punchy takes on getting things done, see Doin or Doers.

Also see our Doing Good quotes for a values-driven angle, or Doers quotes celebrating people who take action.