Do Things Quotes

I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.

I love watching, I love getting all the science about food. That's one of my favorite things.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

I think that's the most important thing-two things really, have fun and be yourself.

A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

When things go wrong on a macroeconomic level, it's almost always this way. People find someone to blame, whether it's blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, Muslims-whoever.

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

Only good things come from God's hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity.

You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

I find it very difficult to do normal things without getting approached.

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.

We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, but frankly we won't if we're too afraid to try.

As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen: eternity, knowledge and bliss.

It is a good thing to be laughed at. It is better than to be ignored.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

I've been traveling the world and experiencing different places, and you always discover new things.

There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.

The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.

Possible things aren't worth much, it's those crazy impossible things that keep us passionate and alive.

The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.

You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.

A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining; I'm about getting things done.

I can do small things in a great way.

Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.