Happiness is found in doing not merely possessing.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
In my cranky old age I actually prefer recording alone now on 'The Simpsons' for example because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times when I record with a group I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
I love doing normal things - movies shopping going out with friends writing reading taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
Some mornings you wake up and think gee I look handsome today. Other days I think what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
I stand for freedom of expression doing what you believe in and going after your dreams.
It is no use saying 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man woman and child in Iraq shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man woman and child in the United States?
Sure 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.
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.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
I'm doing 'Les Miserables' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like 'Come on let's do a moviemusical.'
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right by other people as well as myself that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.
I used to be good with kids but as I get older I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party you couldn't pay me enough.
I believe that if you're healthy you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
Before you start some work always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions go ahead.
Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game you really do train to play. It tops up your ability like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.
I wanted to do two things when I was growing up about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over and that is what I am doing now.
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers the best of them in doubt and misery the most in plodding hesitation doing as well as they can what practical work lies at hand.
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice loving mercy and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
If I don't feel confident about my body I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up motivating yourself and just doing it.
I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.
I was doing a children's book on self-esteem and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Obviously I come from one background and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years and they know what works and doesn't work.
Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60 saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk stoned people to actually wake up and think you're doing something.
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
So when it comes to eating healthy it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way.
Life is painting a picture not doing a sum.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them however has not changed.
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically by definition be disqualified from ever doing so.
I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age I'm actually overweight.
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
No but way before that I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah that was an amazing chance. You know at my age to be able to do a music dance video very unusual.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
For me going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
If my films don't show a profit I know I'm doing something right.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing and if you are good enough at it the money will come.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
They were marketing me as a teen idol when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
Three years after starting by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.