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.
What we don't need to work toward is polarizing America any greater than it is. Look, I'm up here in Washington, D.C., in the Congress of the United States, and we have, all day, a lot of verbal vomit that...
I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.
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I was doing telenovelas in Miami and Mexico, and everyone's dream when you're an actor is to be in Hollywood.
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.
Yes, doing a work, telling a story very much represents a way to save my own life, and on so many levels.
I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.
Just having the whole control over your body is so important when you're modelling - to just be able to know exactly what you look like and what you're doing.
I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't...
I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself that I am capable of doing it and actually going through the process.
But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.
For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing.
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a certain point, I decided I didn't want an edge between two colors, I wanted color differences in literal...
I just enjoy batting. I love it. It's a craft and I love plugging away at it. I guess getting to do that in a match was the ultimate pleasure to be out there and do something I've been doing...
One of the main things I take away is just the way the boys approach the game and carry on. You are in the dressing room and it is very much just about getting in and doing as well as...
For me it was always about enjoying what I was doing and trying to get better, playing more and more sport.
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Also see our Doing Good quotes for a values-driven angle, or Doers quotes celebrating people who take action.
