Top 1200 Doing What You Want Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

People who troll you want a reaction, and there's no point in doing that. I just try to focus on my football.

I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power - doing things you could never actually do in life - like flying and doing backflips in the air!

I'd say that that is a challenge, but it also is, again, it's helpful. It's helpful to have the discipline of, okay, I'm doing, I'm doing something that's quite precise over here, working the puppet, and I'm doing something that's very imprecise and creative and unleashed over here, which is the comedy side. And it's kind of nice to allow your brain to be doing those two things at once.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and change it again. If the music doesn't move, then it's dead.

Doing the big budget films really makes you appreciate doing movies like Shelter. It's because this is like doing theater, you just have to hit the ground running

We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too much.

I remember when I was doing my first Christmas album, I thought, 'Wouldn't it be nice to find new Christmas songs?' Then I went, 'Are you crazy?' When I decorate my tree I don't want new Christmas songs, I want to hear all the familiar songs!

If people are talking about me, I want it to be because of the work I'm doing and not the person I'm seeing.

You never want to look like an old fart doing young rap music.

I don't like the idea that you're supposed to woo someone by doing things you wouldn't want to do on an everyday basis.

My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to.

I am a baseball player and I enjoy getting batters out and that is what I want to continue doing.

I think I'm good at playing dramatic and serious roles, but it's not necessarily what I want to keep doing.

My career has always revolved around what I do and don't want my sisters and brothers seeing me doing

BJP is doing "gathbandhan". Congress is doing "brashtbandhan" and the criminals are doing "lathbandhan". Our politics is about coalitions. Every coalition where the BJP is part of as leaders, has been successful.

I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.

That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?

As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that.

You always like to be the collaborator. I don't want to take over the movie, because if I want to do that, I should really become a director because then you have the control of everything, basically. I'm very happy to just be the visual part of it, doing the visual part of the movie.

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.

We don't want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do.

Whether I'm doing a routine where I want to move people, or if I want to feel moved myself, I definitely tap into those moments where it's not just dancing or movement. It might just be a hand gesture or just a slow look, or even just the way you slightly tip your head forward. These subtleties speak volumes.

There are some people who do not want this thing to continue to work, and that's what they're doing is all about. They don't want to unify. They don't want this thing to work. That's the whole point of going forth with grievance after grievance after grievance and victim after victim after victim, because this inherent system... There is an all-out assault on the unity of this country. There are people whose express purpose is to rip it apart.

It was a struggle for a long time. My parents were rightly cautious, in the sense that they were like, "We want you to do what you want to do. We just also want you to not have to sleep on an air mattress for the rest of your life." What was beneficial for me was that I did everything I could to let them be a part of my life and show them how seriously I took comedy. This is my way of helping people and contributing something to society, and I'm doing everything I can to be as funny as possible without embarrassing them. They're proud now.

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation.

I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.

It's incredible what we can do if we really want to do it. All we need is to be aware of what we are doing and to return to the authenticity we were born with.

The work I'm doing today gets me one step closer to the work I should be doing tomorrow. And that the way I learn this is by trying, failing, networking and experimenting. I'll stop doing that when I'm dead.

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

You want to make sure you're aware of who's dealing with your money, what it's doing, and how you can save.

I want to keep my options open and make sure I'm doing the best thing for Hannah.

I've been in situations, when I was younger, when I had people forcing me doing stuff that they don't want to do.

It's not always about convincing your parents of what you want to do, but just saying, 'This is what I'm doing; this is what I love.'

I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.

In times of stress, I frequently remind myself that I'm doing what I want to do most and that's what really counts.

I don't want to be that artist who's doing the teenage angst thing and draw it out my whole career.

I never want to make my music sound like what someone else is doing. That's not my thing.

It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Changing your life does not always mean that you stop doing certain things. It may mean that you start doing certain other things. What you really want to do is nurture the attitude that you are open to learning more about yourself. Accepting more about yourself. This is what will inspire you to do something new.

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

I don't want to get typecast and I've been doing a lot of stuff to make that happen and not be the case.

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

For so long, it felt like I was doing great things that nobody was seeing. Now to be featured on television, doing the things I was doing and being able to be seen on a worldwide scale, it was huge.

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

I just want to be more willing to listen to many people and be cautious about what I'm doing.

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

I always thought to myself, 'I don't want to be doing stand-up when I'm 40 years old.'

Just going out and seeing friends, not being cooped up in my house because I don't want to get my picture taken or anything like that - I've tried to let go of that stuff a bit, accept that it's going to happen to me, and not let it prevent me from doing anything I want to do, which I have in the past.

I was on a TV show when I was 13, and I had a tutor for high school. Everyone was like "Oh, you're missing out on the high school experience," so I'd go with my cousins to parties where there would be a keg and people doing body shots and playing quarters. I was like, What a waste of time. I didn't want to be doing E [ecstasy] and making out with a guy three years older than me who's a loser.

I never want to keep doing the same thing more than once, honestly.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

When I first started to do music, I was kind of doing what I thought people would want me to do.