Doing Quotes

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.

If you hug someone goodbye and their response is what the hell are you doing? - you may want to examine you're definition of close friend.

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

the beauty of doing nothing

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure theyre all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

I think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know.

I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

Time moves on but Barbara Hershey's doing good and John Heard, they're all people working. I know there were a couple of kids in that movie who I used who have been in other movies since Beaches.

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

Doing nothing in the face of a grave threat to the world is not an option.

Doing nothing, badly.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

You learn to do by doing. You learn to be by being.

I wonder how Jon Stewart is doing right now. I just ... I hope he's happy.

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

If you're the sort of person that likes a job where once you know what you're doing you can keep doing what you're doing, don't ever become a film composer.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

I consider every step towards doing what you love an achievement.

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.

I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.

As an actor, demonstrating your feelings in front of people is not what you're supposed to be doing. You're supposed to hold your emotions and control them, and not show them all over the place.

Many people have a very hard time truly believing that doing the right thing by others, striving to serve them to the greatest extent, can actually be a competitive advantage.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeor never.

I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either.

When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That's the first and foremost thing that we need.

You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

You can’t let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.

I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

They [Democrats and Republicans] agree with each other on either doing nothing or giving lip service to climate change and the really transformative changes that need to happen.