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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. — B.C. Forbes

Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up. — Jennifer Aniston

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well. — Ken Blanchard

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done. — W.E.B. Du Bois

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

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things. — Mencius

I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. — Walt Disney

happiness comes from doing great things-rather than getting great things — Charles Fay

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged. — Beyonce Knowles

I am fascinated at how much time we spend doing things that we don't enjoy. — Daniel Willey

I don't think I'm ever going to have the kind of life or schedule that I can really have a steady way of doing things. — Jim Carrey

Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way. — Jack Canfield

I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing. — Alice Munro

I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things, — Elizabeth Holmes

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing. — Sarah Dessen

I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things. — Angel Olsen

I always feared finding myself thinking about all the things I could have done, about all the things I was so close to doing. — Sambhav Ratnakar

If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people. — Tucker Max

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. — Remy De Gourmont

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Being a professional," Julius Erving once said, "is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them."16 — Daniel H. Pink

I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done. — Santigold

[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing. — Terry Brooks

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way. — Eli Broad

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures. — Ellsworth Kelly

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit. — Lizzo

If we want to reach the people that no one else is reaching, we've got to do things that no one else is doing. — Andy Stanley

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics — Bradley Whitford

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors. — Robert Fulghum

If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves. — Imam Ahmad

When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them. — Zig Ziglar

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place. — Wanda Sykes

As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong. — Peter Drucker

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them. — John Ruskin

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong. — Drew Houston

I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again. — Veronica Roth

for I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them. — Barbara Pym

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. — Michelle Bachelet

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do. — Octavia E. Butler

I don't like doing things that are too easy. — Noel Clarke

I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open. — Brandon Sanderson

We'll miss all of these.
Yes ... we'll miss the days of old, ways of doing things,
when we've been able to do everything, in the future. — Toba Beta

Doing things for someone else is what I love most about relationships, even more than having stuff done for me. — Daria Snadowsky

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing. — Tyra Banks

It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go. — Danielle LaPorte

Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done. — Simon Sinek

I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them. — Tori Spelling

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing. — Golda Meir

We want everyone to follow their dreams, their hearts (aren't they bursting, like ours?); we want them doing things that we will find interesting. — Dave Eggers

Successful people have all had to do things they didn't feel like doing in order to get where they are. — Rory Vaden

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society. — Myron Scholes

He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone.
Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with. — Patricia Briggs

Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch. — James Purefoy

You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing. — Gustavo Dudamel

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. — Carl Van Vechten

Staying away from things you like and doing things well even if you do not like them are the real challenges in life. — Bhishmaraj Bam

One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life. — Dakota Fanning

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money? — Earl Wilson

You will find yourself, as he did. But that will not mean it is easy. There are few things easy in life that are worth the doing. — Mette Ivie Harrison

I have my way of doing things. — Romario

Nature is doing wonderful things for you; what are you doing for the nature? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Efficiency is about doing things right. Effectiveness is about doing the right things. — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

The biggest reason people don't do things is knowledge. Many people don't go to the gym because they don't know what the heck they're doing. — Jessie Pavelka

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor. — Thomas Harris

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things. — John McWhorter

Great things only happen when we love the thing we are doing. — Debasish Mridha

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good. — Jacqueline Winspear

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better. — Vincent Van Gogh

I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow. — Vanessa Hudgens

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer. — Jean Craighead George

Doing a huge number of things doesn't mean you're getting anything meaningful done. — Leo Babauta

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad. — Linus Torvalds

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time. — Julian Barnes

When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every role is a challenge.I want to keep doing everything I want to try to do things that aren't similar to one another. — Nina Dobrev

If you're going to do something, do something that matters. Don't waste your time doing stupid things with even bigger losers going nowhere. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible. — Bill Johnson

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead. — Adam Sandler

Doing beautiful things is its own reward. — Teller

There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well. — Peter Drucker

I've been doing old-people things since I was a child. — Martha Plimpton

True productivity is not first about efficiency - doing things right and doing them quickly - but effectiveness - doing the right things. — Matt Perman

There are ways of doing things you dont't know about — Harper Lee

You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane! — Penn Jillette

You have DIED to doing things your own way. You can only LIVE again as you take up your cross, daily, and follow Jesus. - THE PRODIGAL LIFE — Pauline Creeden

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens. — Alex Steffen

There have been many yogis who have been doing these things, or have been having these experiences for years - and now they are searching for freedom. — Mooji

But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains. — Dan Simmons

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next. — Sheldon B. Kopp

The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing. — William Barclay

Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world. — Anwar Fazal

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment. — Sandra Cisneros

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality. — Billie Joe Armstrong

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing. — Robin Williams

The goal of measurement is to not only do things right but do the right things and continuously improve doing that. — Pearl Zhu

A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things. — Wallace D. Wattles

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment. — Ravi Shankar

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people. — Kathleen Hanna

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind. — Brandon Lee

I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career. — Neil Patrick Harris