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.
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking...
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.
All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.
The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.
There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was...
I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
Before I moved to the city I spent every Saturday sitting in church wishing I could be living on my own, doing what I wanted.
That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be...
I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to...
I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.
A famous man once said, 'A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.' Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
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Also see our Doing Good quotes for a values-driven angle, or Doers quotes celebrating people who take action.
