Doing

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices, so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

If you go into any physics lab, everybody is depressed and feels isolated. We don't get any feedback that anybody cares about what we're doing.

Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas, they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.

A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.

When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.

I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.

You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.

I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing, I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.

I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

Bands like R.E.M. and even The Replacements, during that initial wave of college rock, would sell 40, 50, 100,000 copies of a record, and that would be seen as extremely successful - and definitely enough to keep doing more.

I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.

I would be horrified to watch whatever I was doing on 'Party Of Five.' I'm sure I'm bad on it.

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.

We continue to look at accretive and synergistic acquisitions both in the domestic as well as international markets. Our emphasis, thus, will be on strategic acquisitions, and we will not be doing it just for the sake of making our name bigger.

I just play, that's all. When I'm in the field, I always connect with what I'm doing. I can't explain it. I can't control it. It just happens.

Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

When I started publishing my work, one of the biggest surprises to me was the recurring question about my background and why I wasn't doing more stories about Asian-Americans.

I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.

I don't think the way to succeed is by doing something aggressive. Aggression is weak-minded.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.

Your artistry is a muscle that needs to be exercised, so if all you are doing is auditioning, you'll never get the satisfaction of fulfilling the need to play the part.

It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

People should try and look for something that constantly keeps them motivated, and they start enjoying what they are doing.

I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.

It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.

Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.

We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.

I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.

I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.

There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start to do this bad Rick Moranis voice I do as well when I really get going. It's pretty horrible.

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

No matter how big the audience is going to be. I'm interested in doing things that are fun.

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

You are doing better than you think you are.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.

The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.

You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.

Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?

So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.

Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.

Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

I like the acting. It's how I started, and I sort of feel that if I don't give it a little shot now, and I go back, then I'm pretty much done with it. I mean, at what age am I going to do it at? Although, when you see Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow doing it, I guess the answer is 80.

If people don't love what you're doing, that doesn't mean you're wrong.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.

I just looked like there was only one thing I could do: be in a band. It looked like I was already successful, basically. Which is what I wanted to do when I was 16. I just felt like if you did that, aesthetically you would just draw people who were doing the same thing.

Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.

Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.

I'm scared of horses, and I don't know how to shoot them, but that's what excites me. After 40 years old, if you don't do some things that really terrify you, I don't think they're worth doing.

If my mother hadn't encouraged me, I would be nervous and feeling like I'm doing something wrong.

The designers usually don't like to say until we're on the runway. Like when I did Prada last year, I couldn't mention doing Prada or even Tweet or take a picture and put it on Twitter saying I was backstage at the Prada show. And Dolce was the same thing. They like to keep a little surprise, I guess, a little secret for everybody.

Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors.

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film you're doing, you're in trouble.

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you're the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldn't be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

For CNBC, and for Wall Street, billion-dollar fines for violations of the law are just part of the price of doing business, along with litigation costs and 'compliance.'

There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

I feel like it's very important to connect with the people who are passionate about what I'm doing.

I'm a believer in challenging myself and overcoming challenges by doing things I've never done before.

I loved doing Baywatch. It was so much fun!

Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.

I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.

When I was, like, 10, I decided it would look really cool, so I pretended I was British. And I've been doing that ever since.

When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.

I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.

I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

If you want to do something, then you do it. If you don't want to do something, don't just do it because your friends are doing it, or because all the popular kids are doing it.

All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.

I would have never thought that I'd be doing Chanel.

You adapt your look to places you live, where you are and what you are doing.

I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I'm always surprised by the material I'm attracted to. And that's how I like it. I like to be surprised.

I can't say that I know the lexicon as intimately as a lot of people, so I may be unworthy of being called a Trekkie. That would be doing a disservice to the people who really are Trekkies.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

I truly loved doing the videos, but it has been hard hearing all the time that you're just the Aerosmith chick.

What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.

I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

I'm a bit multifaceted in the sense that I've got many more than one musical taste. If you think about it, I started out playing in a punk band and ended up doing electro-pop. That was more an accident than a plan.

The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in, they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.

You won't see me doing 'Transformers 5.'

If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

I am sick of defending myself, and I am not going to keep on doing it.

I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

Coming out of Dallas and doing commercial work in Dallas - if you had improv background in Dallas, then you were instantly shot to the top of the list of commercial bookings because they loved improvisers because you could elevate the material.

When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.

I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.

Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

Some women are great, and you wouldn't have been able to get to where you are without them, and others are doing what they can to undermine you.

There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.

I started with Tamil film, then Hindi. Now, I am also doing a Telugu film. The journey has been wonderful so far.

When I first got a call for the movie, I couldn't believe that I am doing a film opposite Akshay Kumar. He is such a big superstar.

If people are making fun of you then you're probably doing something right.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

If your body is excited to do something, that's what you should be doing. Or if it really scares you, you should be doing it.

For me, I'm OK doing embarrassing things, when it's with somebody else. I'm not the only person to look at.

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing.

You've got to look at the promises I kept. It's not just talking about doing things: it's doing them.

I'm not a party person. I'm a nerd. I'm not an extrovert in that way at all. The things I enjoy doing could be boring to somebody else.

I'm not a huge TV person. I don't like having the noise when I'm doing other things unless I'm really lonely, and then I turn the TV on. But I do like to sit down and watch TV in the evenings.

I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol.

I play with doing a forehead bun a lot, just a bantu knot right in front of the forehead and keep it in with a clip. And I like doing real pinup styles but based on my natural hair.

When I graduated, everyone was like, 'You got to do pop and R&B to make it,' like very contemporary pop and R&B. I tried for a little while, but I just realized my voice wasn't quite fitting some of the records that I was doing.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

I spar with Nick and Nate Diaz... those boys know what they're doing, they can throw their hands.

I'm a big person when it comes to doing what you believe in.

One of the reasons why I signed up with Roc Nation was because of their ability to not just have a vision of doing things but the actual ability and resources to carry that vision out.

In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

I'm definitely very interested in doing female narrators that aren't typically feminine or emotional or soft - especially teenage girls - because I have such a hard time relating to so many of them that I read. They feel psychologically cuter to me than I ever was.

I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.

I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.