Doing Quotes

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.

Every artist, to me, should know why they're doing what they're doing. You shouldn't create simply because it sounds good to you. That's not a real response to me.

I think we're always most interested in the things we're doing right now.

To having no self esteem to feeling wonderful about yourself doing what you love to do and making the money that you want to be making. That is my contribution to humanity.

Sometimes I think it's a lack of knowing the areas. Obviously, everybody knows that health is important so that's - but why was I not doing the right thing? Because I was deceived.

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

If someone doesn't hate what you're doing - you're not doing very well.

Whatever you're doing, you must have patience.

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

It will take hard work, but doing nothing on Social Security, for example, simply makes sure the system will go broke. It's time to make some reforms.

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.

I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

I did a different production with a different director and Bill Pullman. Oleanna­ - the one you saw - we were doing right after Bourne Identity or right after it came out.

Even when I didn't know anything else about where I was or what I was supposed to be doing. You were my Wayward, even then. Everything always brought me back to you. Everything.

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.

Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing good for know I'm doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home.

A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.

What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples doing good actions.

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.

While we were at rest, Christ was in rescue mode. While we were doing nothing, He was doing EVERYTHING. He was down in the depths of the earth fighting for our freedom.

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.

It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love.

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.

You may not be able to convince everyone around you that you're doing the right thing, but you don't have to subject yourself to endless second-guessing from others, either.

South Africa is the only country in the world who gives AZT to health workers for needle-stick injuries. It's very doubtful that we're doing the right thing.

I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

There's never one "ding-dong" moment.You never know for sure if you're doing the right thing. Things don't end all at once.

Never confuse looking your best with doing your best.

I also like to get out there to promote a positive message about the importance of family and faith and of doing the right thing.

I don't enjoy doing nothing or sitting in my trailer watching ESPN.

We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.