Doing Something Quotes
1106 quotes by 924 authors
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That person who declares that there is always something wrong is always doing something to make things wrong.
— Christian D. Larson
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...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the…
— Miles Davis
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It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues…
— Peter Lynch
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Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is…
— David Hyde Pierce
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If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're…
— Steve Case
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When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.
— Grace Ogot
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There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.
— Justin Welby
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I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you've dedicated most of your life or…
— Bryan Clay
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The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of…
— Kenneth Lay
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I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could…
— Gordon Parks
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A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.
— Yanni
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One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do. Most people –…
— Jim Rogers
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But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know,…
— Norton Juster
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Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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They say people are fundamentally interested in only three things - food, sex and shelter. I can't say I'm authoritative on the first two, although…
— Edward Durell Stone
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I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't…
— Ruth Simmons
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Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity...…
— Henri Nouwen
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I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough about it to…
— Lawrence Block
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Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.
— Shigeo Shingo
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There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.
— Dan Ariely
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