Quotes about doing

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“Very often we write down a sentencethen anotherwhat we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.”

“The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.”

“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn’t.”

“Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good.”

“Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. Nothing's impossible!”

“Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing.”

“You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty!”

“Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.”

“Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?… you must knowyou want andyou want. Fourth question for the conscience.”

“We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”

“None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”

“I wouldn't know what to do with [colour]. Colour to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of a dream. The more you throw black into a colour, the more dreamy it gets… Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.”

“When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.”

“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another.”

“If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.”

“You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”

“It’s more difficult to create the problem than to solve it. All the person trying to solve the problem has to do is always respect the problem’s creator.”

“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”

“Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.”

“I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.”

“All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.”

“Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.”

“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible….”

“Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.”

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”

“We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.”

“Sandry: "There has to be something we can do."
Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix."
Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.”

“animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along”

“I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.”

“When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?”

“Do you smoke?

Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.

I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.”

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

“They do not love, that do not show their love.”

“One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.”

“Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.”

“there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.”

“We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.”

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

“If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.”

“Destiny doesn't do home visits… you have to go for it yourself.”

“As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.”

“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”

“What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?'

Be yourself,' said Ipek.”

“Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.'
-Marielle”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.”

“Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.”

“Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?”

“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”

“Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.”

“Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.”

“I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.”

“Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?”

“We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable…”

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

“It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.”

“Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.”

“All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.”

“Well, you do what you do and you pay for your sins, but there's no such thing as what might have been. That's a waste of time; drive you outta your mind”

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.”

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”

“God is not good, or else he could do better.”

“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”

“If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do.
(Malcolm Kavanaugh)”

“To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.”

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”

“And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do.
Sir Myles of Barony Olau”

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

“We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.”

“Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.”

“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”

“When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.”

“Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me.”

“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.”

“Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don’t accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you a will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.”

“For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.”

“I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.”

“Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.”

“Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.”

“I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.”

“Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?”

“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

“I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.”

“Love has nothing to do with someone else. It is all about you. It is a way of being. It essentially means you have brought sweetness into your emotion. If a loved one travels to another country, would you still be able to love them? You would. If a loved one passed away, would you still be able to love them? You would. Even if a loved one is not physically with you anymore, you are still capable of being loving. So, what is love then? It is just your own quality. You are only using the other person as a key to open up what is already within you.”

“We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.”

“Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?”

“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”

“Raven: So Alexander, now we know what we do all day. What do you do? Alexander: I spend it thinking about you.”

“What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".”

“There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.”

“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”

“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”

“Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan.'
'Do we have the right plan?'
'Not yet.'
'Do we have any plan?'
'Not yet.”

“Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.”

“By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.”

“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”

“When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.”