Quotes about doing

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“I know this sounds crazy, but once I find something I want to do, nobody's stopping me. If I don't know how to sew, and I really had that passion to sew, that's it, I'm going to sew. That's also with acting. So here I am.”

“[R]eciprocity is barter. I always understood that barter was the last effort of civilization that it was exactly that state of human exchange that separated civilization from savagery; and if reciprocity is only barter, I fear that would hardly help us out of our difficulty. ... [W]hen he taunts me with his quotation of some musty phrases of mine 40 years ago, I must remind him that we had elements then on which treaties of reciprocity could be negotiated. At that time, although the great changes of Sir Robert Peel had taken place, there were 168 articles in the tariff which were materials by which you could have negotiated, if that was a wise and desirable policy, commercial treaties of reciprocity. What is the number you now have in the tariff? Twenty-two. Those who talk of negotiating treaties of reciprocity...have they the materials for negotiating treaties of reciprocity? You have lost the opportunity. I do not want to enter into the argument at the present moment; but England cannot pursue that policy.”

“A real change towards a better environment can only begin with better design available for everyone, everywhere. Until the government realises this and provides adequate legislation and funding, we need to do this pro bono – free for the public good.”

“Relationships, like an exquisite garden do not thrive on granite. Find the valley where the bright foliage permeates the landscape; this is where you plant the flowers.”

“The fiercest warriors, do not carry a sword to the battlefield; instead, they are armed with wisdom.”

“Chase the vision regardless of what other people do, say, or think.”

“Successful people who wish to maintain their successes must make the decision to do so.”

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.”

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

“Writing is just like making love - you can't do it whenever.”

“Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?”

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”

“Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.”

“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”

“Above all, do not forget your duty to love yourself.”

“It is with no doubt that there is trouble in every household, but I do not see the motive behind labelling each other as “narcissists” only after separation has occurred.”

“Do good deeds while you are still alive. Otherwise, there will be no VIP place for you in heaven.”

“To my enemies I appear like a madman, to my admirers like a sage and to those who do not know me, I simply appear like a stranger in front of their senses.”

“With the right tools at hand, a woman is capable to do anything in life.”

“Without wisdom, you will not peacefully enjoy this wealth in the world. You will have no idea what to do with it in the first place.”

“I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.”

“You can do anything you put your mind to and just to follow your dreams.”

“My aim is to do the best. Doing my best is just a tool.”

“I think dancers are paid not for what they do, but for the fear they feel. What you do is probably not that difficult: you just get on stage. It is, however, fear that gives you the push.”

“You have nothing to trust to but your own energy and the sublime instinct of an ancient people. You must act as if everything depended on your individual efforts. The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Go to your homes, and teach there these truths, which will soon be imprinted on the conscience of the land. Make each man feel how much rests on his own exertions... Act in this spirit, and you will succeed. You will maintain your country in its present position. But you will do more than that, you will deliver to your posterity a land of liberty, of prosperity, of power, and of glory.”

“You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo!”

“I have lost a bit of my sight, much of my hearing. At conferences, I can't see the presentations and can't hear well. But I think more now than when I when I was twenty. The body can do whatever it likes. I am not the body: I am the mind.”

“Why do people who have no idea
what they are talking about
always
talking loudest?”

“Do not be abashed
by your
Failures.

Learn from them…
and Re-start!

In every Mistake,
there is a great potential for Growth.

You learn more from Failure
than
Success!”

“Do not judge my story by the
chapter you walked in on.”

“Do not compare your struggles to anyone else's.
Do not become discouraged by another's success.
Create your own path and do not ever give up!”

“I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavouring to make our fellow creatures happy.”

“Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors for Christ!”

“(Engr. Abah Sule favorite speech)1. Give birth to yourself. 2. Others are feeling the same. 3. As a man you got to be strong. 4. Love the one you are with, 5. Where challenges are important, 6. to live is the hardest, to die is the simplest. 7. Peace of mind, long life, 8. Can't be done without you. 9. Do what's real. 10. Live the world and live your life.”

“Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it.”

“You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”

“I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent vision. I am a purposeful person. But on a daily basis, I think I'm other than grumpy. I think it is a case where I am coming to do business and not there just to be flattered and cajoled and used.”

“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”

“Will you love me in December as you do in May?”

“There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.”

“Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?”

“The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.”

“You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”

“I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.”

“Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.”

“Wait, do they even know I'm coming with you?"
"No. But they like surprises. Almost always.”

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”

“I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.”

“People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.”

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”

“If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!”

“And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.”

“I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.”

“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”

“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”

“Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.”

“And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.”

“I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.”

“Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”

“She crouched with her hand out. What the hell was she doing…
"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty."
Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.”

“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.”

“I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.”

“Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony—Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”

“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.”

“Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!”

“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”

“I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.”

“One of those creatures wrote you once, ‘do not call up any that you can not put down’.”

“There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.”

“What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

“Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.”

“Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.”

“Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?”

“I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or
wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”

“Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.”

“What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”

“Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.”

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”

“Question for God every morning:

What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?”

“Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.”

“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

“When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.”

“The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.”

“It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.”

“The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”

“I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.”

“I believe there is little you cannot do once you set your mind to it.”

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.”

“What you don't do can be a destructive force.”

“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”

“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere”

“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”