I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It’s their work that I’m supporting. So it’s not me doing it.
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
I love doing the stunts. It’s as simple as that.
I spend time doing cardio because it makes me feel good.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Once you’ve gotten the job, there’s nothing to it. If you’re an actor, you’re an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.
There’s no wrong or right with fitness. It’s whatever you enjoy and whatever you can keep up and keep doing.
If you don’t love what you’re doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you’re not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.
Life is too short to do the things you don’t love doing.
Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they’re doing it. That’s purpose. And that’s the key to achieving something truly transformational.
Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you’d never dream of doing by yourself.
Two halves don’t make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn’t doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.
I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.
I just think I’m blessed. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I have a great grandmother that passed away at 104 and two grandparents that passed away at 97 and 95, and they never worried about protein. They just enjoyed life, and that’s what I’m doing.
Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it’s based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can’t, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.
I look my best after an entire hair and makeup team has spent hours perfecting me. When do I feel my best? When I haven’t looked in a mirror for days, and I’m doing things that make me happy.
The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Money laundering is not a crime. It’s just because certain men with guns don’t like what other people are doing with their own money, so they decide it’s okay to lock those people in a cage.
Doing anything with dedication impacts life positively.
Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.
Awards are like a pat of appreciation from the jury and viewers. It is almost like them saying, ‘So, you have done well; we expect you to carry on doing good work.’
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I’ve succeeded, if I’m doing something that makes me happy and I’m not lying to anybody.
Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.
A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don’t hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.
Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.
The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter of doing business.
Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.
I’m not one to be paying too much attention to what another dude’s doing.
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
It’s not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.
Talent is given by God but you should respect it by doing good work.
I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.
It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.
You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don’t know how to feel good about the work you’re doing or the life you’re leading.
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‘You can do better than this.’
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
My only worry is the painting I’m doing. Nothing else.
Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.
At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I’m doing.
