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.
Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult.
My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.
Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?
A role I would not do: cool jock. That's not something I'd be interested in doing.
My momma was working very hard, doing three jobs... she just worked her butt off, man. On the weekends she started to play this song called 'Living for the Weekend.'
If you try to make money doing something you're not enjoying, it's a hard way to make money.
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.
About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it.
I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'
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Also see our Doing Good quotes for a values-driven angle, or Doers quotes celebrating people who take action.
