Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"How can you lose when you're doing you?"
Doing You quotes
Doing You
111 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!"
Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything."
Tom Waits
Singer-songwriter, Actor
"It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits."
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"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself."
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"If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you will never be good at it."
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"The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good."
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"Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life."
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"If you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, you need to stop doing it. You aren’t living your truth."
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"If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come."
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"Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed."
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"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses."
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"Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself."
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"I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging."
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"If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life."
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"Just keep doing 'you', and being who you are and doing what feels natural to you."
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"Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head."
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"I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished."
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"As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene I'm doing. You never quite know where your emotions will take you."
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"Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change."
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"Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids."
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"I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know."
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"Even when I didn't know anything else about where I was or what I was supposed to be doing. You were my Wayward, even then. Everything always brought me back to you. Everything."
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"There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself."
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