Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house
with the conscious design of doing me good,
I should run for my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
A inspired life lives not in the DOing, but in the BEing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
People make a big fuss over you when you're President.
But I'm very serious about doing everything I can
to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
- Jimmy Carter
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Creativity is the quality that you bring
to the activity that you are doing.
It is an attitude, an inner approach -
how you look at things.
- Osho
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
Always question WHY you are doing something.
Is it a free-will gift or an obligation?
That which is done out of a feeling of obligation
is unworkable as a substitute for a gift.
Obligation creates a feeling of resentment on your part,
and evokes resentment rather than gratitude
on the part of the recipient.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Truth is always in harmony with herself,
and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice
that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Doing well is the result of doing good.
That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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