Doing Something You Like Quotes

Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas. — Jim Butcher

It's good that people don't like you. That's good. It means that you are doing something interesting. — Chelsea Handler

When men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that's going to change the whole wide world. — Barbara Kingsolver

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing. — Louis C.K.

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something. — Penn Jillette

You'd like people to remember you for these great times on the ice. In reality, you want them to forget because you're doing something new and better. — Apolo Ohno

How terrible it would be to be doing something you didn't like every day — L.M. Montgomery

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment. — Tom Hardy

People who want to hate you can find something in you they don't like. They have a talent for doing that. — Walter Dean Myers

Evelyn: [drunk] You're wondering, 'What is a place like me doing in a girl like this?'
Rick: Yeah, something like that. — Max Allan Collins

Good shows tend to be more fun to do. If you feel like you are doing something good and making a good show, it is a lot more enjoyable. — Travis Fimmel

You looked like the kind of person who will do something because you want to, and not because everyone else is doing it. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right. — Dave Ramsey

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong. — Parker Stevenson

Marketing is like sex - if you have to pay for it, you're doing something wrong — John Edson

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it. — Wanda Sykes

You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is." — Lenny Kravitz

Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else. — Isaac Asimov

As a person, you want to feel like you're giving back. That's something I've always enjoyed doing. — Laura Vandervoort

I like what we're doing. I don't want something else right now; will you just focus on the dick in your hand? — Christina Lauren

If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong. — Billy Bob Thornton

When you enjoy doing something it no longer feels like a task but an essential aspiration. — Ryan Howe

Don't do stuff that freaks him out, like what you're doing now. Do something that makes him happy. — Ai Yazawa

If you don't like something don't do it, and if you're doing something then you better like it. It is as simple as that. — Shahrukh Khan

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. — John Kluge

I think you can scare somebody out of doing something, but not out of feeling like they want to. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like? — Barbara Hillary

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you. — Doseone

It's good to do stand-up. It kind of wakes you up and makes you feel like you're doing something. You got the crowd right there. That's all fun. — David Spade

Don't let something like the simple word "No" stop you from doing anything! — Wendy Noriega-Quintana

L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute. — Israel Horovitz

Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role. — Joan Benoit

Doing something brave is much like saying something stupid. You rarely plan on it happening. — Brandon Sanderson

So if you like doing something, do it regularly; if you don't like doing something, make a habit of doing something different. — Epictetus

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track. — Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you. — Dave Chappelle

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before. — Roddy Doyle

When you're doing something where you really like the material, it doesn't matter what medium it's in. — Christina Ricci

Faith is something you decide to do, not something you feel like doing." So — Neil T. Anderson

I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it. — Ayrton Senna

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring. — Carolina Herrera

The absurdity of working so hard to continue doing something you don't like can be overwhelming. — Allie Brosh

I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it. — Dave Hickey

If you keep doing something because you like it and suddenly a decade or two passes - well, you have a career. — Kristin Van Ogtrop