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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.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

Quotes by David Hilbert

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

Quotes by David Hockney

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

Quotes by David Guterson

I contribute to public candidate campaigns, and there's a federal limit on how much you can contribute to each individual candidate. I obey the law in that regard, and I feel like I'm doing it properly.

Quotes by David H. Koch

I'm used to doing big undertakings with my own money.

Quotes by David H. Murdock

If I can relay anything, it's that if someone has a dream, and it isn't the norm of what others are doing around you, it doesn't matter. Reach for it. Go for it - because I'm a shining example of...

Quotes by David Hallberg

I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing.

Quotes by David Harsanyi

I don’t like the idea of being chucked out of parliament, chucked out of the party, for basically doing the bleeding obvious: trying to stop an absolutely damaging policy, that a responsible political party should be opposing vigorously.

Quotes by David Gauke

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction was to write fiction. But I was much less suited for it. I always struggled to...

Quotes by David Grann

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

Quotes by David Gregory

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.

Quotes by David Elliott

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

Quotes by David Friedman

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

Quotes by David Friedman

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

Quotes by David Friedman

If you're advertising on Facebook, the work you're doing should be made better by being on Facebook. You can't just be repurposing old TV commercials and hoping to get traction; that's very primitive. The question, always, is, 'How is this...

Quotes by David Droga

Do the work you believe in - if there's an authentic reason for doing it.

Quotes by David Droga

There's so much advertising on television that I find just lazy, just so lazy. I'm like, 'Why are they doing that?'

Quotes by David Droga

There is good business doing good.

Quotes by David Droga

I never pushed the envelope of wanting people to know me, or be on the covers of magazines. I just want to enjoy what I'm doing.

Quotes by David Eigenberg

I have no hesitation doing children's movies. Zero. And I don't even have kids.

Quotes by David Cross

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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.