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 very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and...
I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.
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I discovered at the age of five that I could sing, and I realised people liked it. The sound that came out made people happy, so I kept doing it.
What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.
I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as...
No matter what you do, people are gonna try to emulate you. Whether it's a dunk by Michael Jordan or a swing by Ken Griffey Jr., kids are doing the same things.
That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
When you're working with a big star, you always wonder what it's going to be like. Hugh Jackman puts you at ease within 10 minutes. He has such a wonderful energy and is so generous when you're doing a scene....
We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.
It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out...
Around 10 years old I started being into church and being around the church. I started doing poetry - I was doing all clean poetry, totally clean.
I like to have control over what I'm doing, and that no one else is controlling me.
Anything guys can do, girls can, and most of the time, they're out there working harder and doing it better.
But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.
At the height of our fame, we didn't see anything. We didn't leave the hotel because we were doing interviews all day. We may have traveled the world, but we saw nothing.
I don't think we ever really think about it when we're doing it, because if you sort of go in with a plan of attack, it tends to take away the natural rhythm of songwriting.
I see bands that have been around for a long time who go through the motions. They're tired and they shouldn't really be doing it any more. We are doing it because we like it.
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Also see our Doing Good quotes for a values-driven angle, or Doers quotes celebrating people who take action.
