Doing Quotes

“I didn't know what to do next. Doing something is always the best way to think”
― C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

“What you think you can do- is your Assessment,
What you think you cannot do- is your Limitation,
Assess your limitations first, and then limit your assessments.”
― Mahendar Singh Jakhar

“Thinking is one way of doing, and words are one way of thinking”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories

“There’s no point in waiting for Godot. He never arrives. That’s the whole point. In Dante’s Limbo, the Ignavi are always waiting. Their crime in life was that they preferred to wait until everything was decided rather than commit themselves to a cause when its prospects were uncertain, and now they are condemned to wait forever in the vestibule of hell. Anyone can jump on a bandwagon. The heroes are those who got involved long before the bandwagon arrived. You have to find a cause and commit yourself fully. That’s the first step in giving meaning to your life”
― Adam Weishaupt, Inside-Dopesters and Conspiracy Theories

“There is nothing sweeter than not caring at all what other people are doing or think of you.⁣⁣”
― Richie Norton

“When discussing the topic of substance abuse with kids, I explain that doing drugs in order to be high and happy means that people try to support being by doing. However, being is “bigger” than doing. I validate that people who use substances know on some level that they need to take care of their being but they have the order reversed because doing can never support being simply because the “smaller” thing can never support the “bigger” thing. It is as absurd as trying to support silence by increasing the noise. The right order of things is that being supports doing and doing needs to serve being. In chess, without the King, the other pieces would all be “dead”, so their existence is supported by the King, but they need to serve the King with their capacity for action in order to have a good game.

But how do we begin to honor being if we are emotionally distressed or chemically dependent? We need to accept whatever facet of being we are going through—if we are sad, we need to experience our sadness and not run from it; if we are angry, we need to go through it without acting heedlessly; if we are scared, we have to pay attention to our fear and the reasons for it. Everything we go through is a message of being, and we need to decipher the message rather than run from it. I need to stress here the importance of learning to endure distress and let our emotions run their course without making a bad situation worse. The addicted brain needs to endure strong cravings for several years until the chemically reinforced neural pathways gradually subside in the absence of continued reinforcement. Here the words of the great poet and spiritual teacher Rumi come to mind: “Of all the cures God has provided, patience is the best.”
― Roumen Bezergianov, Character Education with Chess

“Without immediate action, an inspiration is useless emotion.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“There are no definite consequences of how you feel, but there will be undeniable consequences of how you act.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Meine Handlungen und meine Hirnzustände durchkreuzen sich munter wechselseitig. Eine endlose Abfolge aus Tun und Sein, Sein und Tun: Do be do be do.”
― Richard David Precht, Wer bin ich – und wenn ja, wie viele?

“Asking the question ‘What are the trees doing?’ may well lead to a variety of profound discoveries.”
― Steven Magee

“Isn’t it true that we are not ‘doing’ anything; we are being done!”
― Sanchita Pandey, Lessons from My Garden

“Some people are doing things you are imagining and some are imagining things you are doing.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Letting grief become action is about the body. It’s literally about taking grief outside of yourself and letting grief’s emotions and identities be expressed in the physical world around you... The act of doing something is a visible marker that grief has had and is continuing to have an impact on your life.”
― Shelby Forsythia

“Creativity is painting the canvas with colors, doing what you do with what you have, knowing the limits and moving beyond.”
― Anand Patwa

“What you do matters more than what you don't do, but once in blue moon what you don't do matters much more than what you do.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You don't need to be extraordinary to act, but you need to act to be extraordinary.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Who thought it first is worthless compared to who did it first.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Making the jump between knowing and doing is what productivity is all about.”
― Chris Bailey

“Being a hero is not necessarily wearing a mask and cape and saving the world, it can be as simple as doing the right thing.”
― Steven Magee

“If you can do something with your life, do it. Don’t talk about it. Why are you waiting for permission? There are far too many people who talk the talk (and believe their own Mythos), and far too few who walk the walk (and actually change the world).”
― Mike Hockney, Magic, Matter and Qualia

“No trying, only doing…”
― A.D. Aliwat

“Time to pull the trigger, time to make it official.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“For me, "success" is not measured at the end of life. A successful life is what you have when you are doing things. There are moments when I overcome difficulties, and that's when I feel strong and fulfilled. My success, my life, was nothing more than turning ideas into reality.”
― Reinhold Messner, My Life at the Limit

“My feeling of satisfaction, my happiness if you like, is not dependent on applause or accolades of any kind but on the fact that I was able to do what I wanted to do - and to see it through.”
― Reinhold Messner, My Life at the Limit

“Your actions speaks so loudly that you need not say anything else.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Not everybody interprets great thoughts, but everybody interprets great actions.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Some people get so caught in planning and trying to do things in the right way and in the right order they forget the most important thing about growth. The doing.”
― Wallace Miles, UNDERR8TED: The Route That Caught an NFL Dream

“Sometimes clarity is attained while doing the task at hand; quit asking too many questions and get your feet wet and hands dirty.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Many will ask how you're doing? Fewer will ask that of your soul.”
― Lady Tracey Bond DoubleOHHSeven™, Kingdom of God Gold Digger

“When you do something out of love, you don't count the cost. But when someone does anything for you out of love, it is good manners to ask the cost.”
― Anupam S Shlok