D Quotes
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“Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.”
“Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.”
“Doing nothing often leads to discoveries!”
“Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.”
“Doing Nothing RIGHT Is BETTER THAN Doing Something WRONG, TIRUMAAL SRI MURUGA PERUMAL”
“Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.”
Source: The Human Script
“Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.”
“Doing nothing, badly.”
“Doing nude scenes for me is totally fine. When you view it through the lens of a prudish, inhibited culture, then it becomes a little perverted. But the experience of acting is that you transcend your own experience.”
“Doing of good is the best temple ever built!”
“Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.”
“Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.”
“Doing one thing at a time and giving oneself wholly to doing it is the most efficient way one can possibly live, because there’s no blockage in the organism whatsoever. When we live and work in that way, we are extremely efficient without being rushed. Life is very smooth.”
“Doing one thing at a time is a recipe for a life that won't keep up with your dreams.”
Source: Time Zen: aka Winners Do It Now – The shortest and most effective time management and success system ever created.
“Doing or not doing something - they are similar. Both involve an action and sincerity.”
Source: xxxHOLiC, Vol. 1
“Doing our imperfect best means accepting that there will often be mistakes, flaws, and rough edges. These mistakes, flaws, and rough edges add to the beauty of who we are and provide us with the power to connect with others.”
Source: Awkwardly Awesome: Embracing My Imperfect Best
“Doing our most with time prevents us from being time constrained when there'll no time to check time.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.”
Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings
“Doing photo booths and signings, and doing all of that for charity, and having dance parties every night, is so much fun. I like to dance, and I know other people that like to dance. It's a great way to celebrate the time that we're all down there together.”
“Doing police corruption research always makes me feel lousy. I don't like doing it.”
“Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.”
“Doing projects really gives people self-confidence. Nothing is better than taking the pie out of the oven. What it does for you personally, and for your family's idea of you, is something you can't buy.”
“Doing Prometheus was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat, it felt like being a part of movie history.”
“Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.”
“Doing reality TV is a lot harder than I thought because I come from the world of [scripted] television where everything is thought out and you know what's going to happen, your lines, what your wardrobe is going to be, etc. But with reality, it's very spontaneous and the cameras are around for 12 hours a day.”
“Doing reality TV is hard. You get lost. You are shooting three months before anybody sees it. So you are past [the emotions]. Then when it airs and the public sees it, they react and it drags you back. It feels you have grown, but then you suddenly feel like you haven't moved at all.”
“Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal occupation for you.”
“Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.”
“Doing retreats, getting personal teachings from time to time from inspiring teachers, all of this helps to recharge our batteries. Then we get inspired and can carry what we've gained into our daily life, which is very important.”
“Doing right for right's sake is atheistic.Christians should do what God says is right because in doing it we enjoy more of God.”
“Doing right gets results, doing wrong gets consequences.”
Source: One Bucket of Tears
“Doing right is easy when we’re comfortable, but honesty shines brightest in times of conflict.”
Source: Let's Be Honest: Living a Life of Radical, Biblical Integrity
“Doing right is never wrong.”
“Doing right with the wrong person
and doing wrong with the right person:
this is the source of all disappointment.”
“Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to ‘have it all,’ the sooner it will die.”
Source: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
“Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.”
“Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.”
“Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.”
“Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.”
“Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.”
“Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.”
Source: The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
“Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time.”
“Doing something, and regularly, is by far the best way of increasing your chances of being good at it.”
“Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.”
Source: Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)
“Doing something completely different than acting for awhile is really important.”
“Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!”
“Doing something different, doing something original is always fun because there is a lot of creativity that comes with it.”
“Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.”
“Doing something else and just adding whatever Pusha T nuances on it, now you're doing something cheaper. You started one place and took it to its heights, and now you're regressing. I don't think I should be exploring that right now.”
“Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.”