Doing Quotes

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

There's nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold things.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.