Quotes about doing

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

I was doing a Broadway musical called 'Smile' with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for 'The Little Mermaid,' so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wanted to do more, but I kept doing drama.

I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.

I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.

I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.

I'm a fan of daytime drama; I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will get the audience riled up, I feel like I'm a fan in the room going, 'People are going to be so mad right now!'

I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.

I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.'

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Create your own miracles do what you think you cannot do.

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us but if we change what we are saying or doing they will respond differently.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.

If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts their employees at serious risk.

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.

It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

If you can think it you can do it!

She had reason to doubt him he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that there is only one answer. You can only know and think about it by actually doing it. You can only learn what obedience is by obeying. It is no use asking questions for it is only through obedience that you come to learn the truth.

It’s not about being ready or feeling prepared all the time sometimes you just have to do what you know you have to do. And when you do – you will always see that you’re more ready and more prepared than you realize. Never doubt yourself or you may never do anything of significance.

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.

The best year so far as for me when I am a children it's when I finish school and start doing something else which is more useful... Games are useful, aren't they?Facts also, aren't they?... Aren't they?

Just by doing what rich do... can make you also rich... Rich drink coca-cola so you can too!

You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the kids?The kids are dreamming to have sex and the adult's already are one step forward, adults take drugs... and from there and kids start, adults kill and then the children start to kill...So far everything was build by the adults, I see it. An adult has written a book about sex, about the stuff, an adult has created a website and other stuff of pornography.... It hasn't thought by someone this, wh

You are responsible for doing what good you can with what you have, and any good is better than none.

I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.

For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.

Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.

The FISA Amendment Act of 2008 actually allows some of the things we were doing under the president's authority only against al Qaeda, it allows them for all legitimate foreign intelligence purposes.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.

Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family we're doing alright.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful.

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.