Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
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
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
John Updike
Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.
Oprah Winfrey
Even the great get greater by doing more of it.
Colleen Wainwright
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Gandhi
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Ernest Hemingway
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Theodore Roosevelt
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Robert Byrne
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. Johnson
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. Chesterton
If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
Anita Roddick
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese Proverb
That meant I could go home at night, ... Doing stand-up comedy, you're on the road an awful lot.
Bob Newhart
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden
The state as a whole was doing pretty well before Katrina.
Phil Pepper
I am hoping that we will be able to seriously find out who exactly they were and what they were doing.
Hiroyuki Hosoda
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
We're doing a lot better than last year. It's real tough competition.
Ryan Lucas
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein
We have a good group of returning juniors and they are all doing a good job. I'm counting on all the juniors.
Joe Siecinski
Some weekends, I'm doing both.
Andrea Bagley
Most of our home runs will be by accident. We've worked a lot on doing the little things.
Aaron Murphy
If we end up doing some kind of financing, we will probably finance both buildings together.
Becky Anderson
We haven't the capacity to compete with those figures, so we have to build a future based on cooperation, on innovation and on doing things better.
Alun Michael
Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.
Henry David Thoreau
He was just doing what we all do every day.
Robert Nichols
It covers a wide range. I had a lot of fun doing it.
Lisa Kelly
Out of respect we will not be doing anything for the moment.
Howard Rubenstein
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
George Halas
It's childish what they're doing. It shows the level of their maturity.
Stan Rosenfield
Our advice now is to tell people make sure you go and watch what they're doing.
Brian Stackpole
They're saying 'What the heck are you doing to our house?
David Carroll
This is not a government contract. This is something we're just doing ourselves.
Lance Cottrell
Even if there's no absolute answer at that stage, being seen to be doing something about it is a very positive thing.
Ian Bellhouse
He's going to be continuing to do what he's been doing, which is campaigning up an down the state.
Brian Brokaw
I got very depressed at one stage. ... When you're really depressed you think of suicide but there aren't any means of doing it.
Norman Kember
We are doing well in all three directions; let us recommit ourselves, in 2006 as we did in 2004, to those same three matters . . . .
Sir Roy Trotman
I've been talking to him a lot about doing this on a consistent basis. He is a guy who has a chance to fill some of these holes for us.
Ted Woodward
If you're doing this for 20 years, you will still be challenged because there's always something else to learn.
Angelique Marquand
Right now I'm doing everything I can to make this team.
Howard Jackson
Most scientists - no matter what they're doing, good or bad - never get any attention at all.
Marc Abrahams
Charles is fine. He's doing well, and he's a key guy for us on defense.
Mark Mangino
He doesn't normally work that fast. He's doing great.
Buff Bradley
What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.
Donna Myers
In most other businesses you have to build enough capacity for your average business, but in the locals casino business you have to build for your peak business. The Cannery is doing very, very well.
Bill Paulos
He is one who is always doing what he is supposed to do without being asked.
Mark Bedenbaugh
The current board is doing a lot of good things and I would like to help continue in the direction.
Rick Desjardins
I was really happy with the top seven. Things are coming along. They're believing and seeing what they are capable of doing.
George Patrylak
Mom and baby are doing fine.
David Brokaw
The two towns are very much interested in doing this as a cooperative venture.
Tom Maziarz
We are not going to be up there doing it, you know.
Nancy Sorrell
We didn't seem to be out of sorts as far as what we were doing.
Brian Trull
It helps a lot because we know what (the soldiers) are doing is great.
Barb Anderson
What we're doing is nothing more than what we've been doing for the last 20 years.
Harvey Jewett
What is that truck doing here. That just infuriates me.
Tom Baxter
We've had to make some adjustments. We don't go real deep, but the ones that are out there playing and rotating in are doing a great job.
Kerri Brown
She's doing quite well with the team. She really beefs up our defensive line.
Beth Mccann
I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.
Pierre Reverdy
When you're breaking 50 [seconds] in the 300 hurdles, you're doing well. When you break 50 in your first race, that's amazing.
Kristi Frye
I think they're doing well. Kids are typically resilient.
Cody Vanderford
They keep doing a very good job. They've been very reliable.
Rick Renteria
I enlisted in the Air Corps, and I was doing what I wanted to do to help the country.
Lionel Greenberg
A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
Tony Scott
They are both doing a great job, and I think the defense feels confident with both of them in there.
Suzanne Isidor
I can legally do all the things I have been doing.
Michael Sanders
What we're doing is building a movement that will transform America.
Angelica Salas
As far as the team, we're doing fine. We're doing as well as we can considering the circumstances.
Jessica Hill
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Mary Wilson Little
As long as you feel something wiggling, you're doing the dance correctly.
Desiree Mcentire
What they're doing is perpetuating a stereotype.
Paula Nelson
It is important to look at what consumers are doing, not what they are saying.
Mark Vitner
I've been doing this for 45 years and I'm still amazed at what I find out.
Carlton Funn
You just can't let it get to you. You have to remain focused on what you're doing.
David Alexander
We're doing all we can do to facilitate the recovery of the deceased from the city.
Ricardo Zuniga
We were doing nothing wrong at all. But we all felt intimidated by these men.
Joe Morrison
The die has been cast [for March 7]. Beyond that, it's debatable how much the bank should be doing.
Warren Lovely
I was doing some investing, and I wanted to know how to do it better.
Susan Knudson
He's a laid-back guy till you ain't doing what you're supposed to do. Then he's going to get on you.
Orpheus Roye
I didn't even know what I was doing. I was just there (in the moment).
Dottie Peoples
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
We won doing some things we normally don't do. That's a credit to the kids.
Randy Fletcher
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A. A. Milne
Hispanic people do business here, ... That doesn't mean we're doing anything illegal.
Carlos Perez
It was annoying. I wasn't angry with our local bank because they were doing the best they could.
Sister Jean Abbott
I don't think that most of them are doing this just for publicity, but I think they're doing it because for them it's almost a sign that they are creative.
Cleveland Kent Evans
He has to make a credible case that what he's doing isn't damaging the party but, rather, reinvigorating it.
Floyd Ciruli
We aren't detaining terrorists, or interrogating them, or doing anything else with them.
Jerzy Szmajdzinski
We're very keen on what they're doing and feel our businesses will complement each other.
Robbie Freeman
I'm back doing what I like to do, doing what I do best.
Jamal Lewis
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
We're not being critical. We certainly appreciated the good news and we appreciate what the governor is doing.
David Glaser
We're doing okay with membership now.
Scott Andrews
This is something I'm doing for Boca Community Hospital because they have a need.
Joseph Pores
People want to come along. We show them what we are doing. It's kind of addictive.
Bob Pendergrass
We're not doing anything to help those children excel.
Luke Selking
You're looking at a community of people dressed to the nines, celebrating what we all do. And often, we're so busy doing it that we don't have a chance to celebrate.
Bill Lynch
People are doing it to find a mate.
Pan Jianjian
Sure it's frustrating. I'm not so sure that Big Red doesn't have something to do with that. It's not like we had all these breakdowns. I'd have to go back to the film to see exactly what we were doing. But sure it's frustrating.
Mark Nardone
When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.
Louise Lippincott
The cost of doing that, to have a dramatic impact, will be between $100 and $200 for most small buildings.
Dan Abrams
I think what they're doing is promising us what they can deliver. The question in February will be, 'can they deliver a little more than that?
Stephen Kamman
If that's an evaluation of what we're capable of doing, ... that's a good sign.
Jon Gruden
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
I think (banks) are doing better today than they were yesterday, and clearly they need to be doing better tomorrow.
John Dalton
We've faced one competitor after another over the years. We've been doing this for 10 years. We do it very well.
Peggy White
We're going to continue doing what we've been doing for the last two months and when it comes, it comes.
Brian Vickers
I was the best book-cooker in the athletic department. I was the go-to man, ... Everybody knew it. But I wasn't the only person doing wrong.
Alex Brown
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
William McFee
I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.
Avril Lavigne
It really looks impressive when they're all through. We've been doing that for a long time.
Wayne Thomas
We have yearly grassroots efforts where we get feedback. That is how we know what we're doing.
Joe Clemente
We were doing things tonight they teach you not to do in Pop Warner.
David A. Bennett
We've been attending meetings with the CDC. We're doing everything we can to make sure we are prepared.
Shannon Patten
What are we doing?
Chris Albrecht
It's very dramatic and for what we're doing the style of the space was important to us.
Michael Chetcuti
It's going to be a little fun. We've got to keep doing the job that we're doing down in the bullpen and carry it on to Clinton.
John Herrera
It's very interesting. They're always doing different things.
Matthew Stevens
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
Vance Havner
Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better. When he won the Jim Dandy, he was doing good. He's doing better now.
Angel Cordero Jr
I was happy where I was. I liked what I was doing. It was my life.
Gladys Pozza
No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.
Debbie Smith
[The school] suspects the kid was doing it as a show-and-tell.
Keith Bromery
I'm just trying to help coach her a little bit. She's doing so well in her age group, with a little coaching, she could do so much better.
Bill Halpin
We're always doing something to improve our property.
Shirley Phillips
The only thing that I was doing was destroying my own kind.
Stanley Williams
It shows what doing the right thing will do for you. There's something to be said for that.
Before David Veeder
I've always done music, since I was 13. I really don't know what I'd be doing if I wasn't doing music.
Adam Krier
My dad, he wasn't really ... He's doing other things, enjoying his day off.
Lauren Hall
I was learning a ton and getting paid well, but I was not doing what I was most passionate about.
Matt Kelley
He cared about what he was doing and how it would affect lives.
William Wright
We just have to keep doing what we're doing. We're really playing well right now. We have to keep it up and we can do it.
Andrea Mortimer
He just involves them with what he's doing and excites them about his interests.
Chris Drake
I was doing my Donyell Marshall impersonation.
Drew Gooden
I know the one thing she'd want us to be doing is laughing.
Bob Garrison
If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
Ray Bradbury
I'm satisfied with her representation and what Kerr-McGee is doing.
Will Harris
He never had possession with his leg up off the ground, doing an act common to the game of football.
Peter Morelli
My whole life ... 30 years ... has been doing what I've been doing in the same place, and it will be gone.
Richard Kennedy
After all that, I came back and did speed work - it was quite different to what I had been doing.
Thomas Neill
She is doing extremely well, has no evidence of disease at all and we're very optimistic about her being cured.
Jeffrey Lipton
I'm not doing this to make friends, I'm criticizing the academics, I'm criticizing sport fishermen, I'm criticizing commercial fishermen.
Sean Van Sommeran
We're delighted they're doing market-warming, ... It'll set up an appetite for true broadband access.
Scott Carson
I'm not sure what he was doing.
Aaron Nelson
My bet is that others are experiencing the same things. I am also betting that most people aren't even doing any checking.
James Hurley
We've always said that we would pass on to our customers any savings that we see from access charge reductions, and we're doing that.
John Zeglis
He was doing well. Then this happens. I don't know what to say.
Dexter Jackson
If my husband were beating or raping me, I'd probably be drinking or doing drugs too.
Vicki Hutchinson
We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.
Nicole Piggott
The U.S. has been shy to tell us how they will deal with subsidies. They have not told us exactly what they will be doing.
Karl Falkenberg
People in their 30s are the ones who are doing this. They just have more stuff to sell, that's got a lot to do with it.
Amanda Lenhart
Our biggest challenge is looking at where those individuals have been displaced to. We're doing our best to look at continuity of care for those individuals.
Michael Duffy
I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.
Jimmy Page
We are still a bit bearish on Treasuries. The economy is doing well.
Hiroyuki Yamada
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
Jonathan Edwards
May deserve it, of course they may for doing something heinous, they don't deserve to live in civilized society, they may deserve the death penalty.
Josef Stalin
Brock just seems very natural doing it.
Colin Macaulay
You can be productive while you are doing that. Time is money.
Peter Wallace
I?m satisfied they?re doing what they?re supposed to with that.
Peter Britz
We're obviously beginning this investigation and doing a deep and determined investigation into what happened.
Tyrone Parham
I'm doing it myself now.
David Conrad
When he was walking through the crowd, they started doing soccer chants for him.
Andrew Brown
She wanted to go out on a convoy because she was bored with what she was doing.
Betty French
You have been doing very well, ... You should just lie back and enjoy it.
Michael Cullen
We're doing everything we can to meet that goal.
Amanda Brown
Some people are doing it, but there haven't been huge numbers yet.
Judith Johnson
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden
He?d make a lot of money doing that. (Those numbers) are pretty (darn) good in this ballpark.
Arthur Rhodes
He is so successful because he's such a competitor. I can't say I'm surprised he's doing this, but it's pleasant to see.
Dan Hartleb
The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.
Brian Higgins
This was absolutely, really needed because we were doing really badly this year.
Andy Serkis
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