Doing What You Want Quotes - Page 2

• Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do

  Daymond John

  Want, Waking, Wake Up

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2017

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• Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.

  Arian Foster

  Patience Is A Virtue, Happens, Want

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• Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Creativity, New Beginnings

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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• Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

  John Updike

  People, Compromise, Want

  John Updike (1990). “Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy”, Everyman's Library

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• Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

  Johnny Mathis

  Way, Sometimes, Fame

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• Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Want, Censorship, What You Want

  "On Censorship" by Salman Rushdie, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Discipline, Way, Ought

  Elisabeth Elliot (2013). “Let Me Be a Woman”, p.35, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Remember this: Now is the only time you have. When God created the universe, it was now. You can't say to creation and energy, "I'll do it later, not now." Later doesn't exist. Creation doesn't know anything but now. Whenever you get around to doing what you want to do, it will be now. The things you need to do to live a happier, more fulfilling life-the only time you can possible start doing them is now.

  Bernie Siegel

  Energy, Needs, Remember

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.206, Random House

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

  Whit Stillman

  Thinking, People, Helpful

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

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• Work and play can be the same. When you are following your energy and doing what you want to do all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves. Work is no longer what you have to do, and play what you want to do. When you are doing what you love, you may work harder and produce more than ever before, because you are having fun.

  Shakti Gawain

  Fun, Work, Love You

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• Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on

  Forrest Griffin

  Mma, Needs, Alive

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• I think when you first get a job, you're just trying to do what the last regime did, just to keep it going, as opposed to actually doing what you want to do.

  Michael Che

  Jobs, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We want our children to become who they are- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it doesn't mean doing what you want. Freedom means the ability to make choices that are good for you. It is the power to choose to become what you are capable of becoming, to develop your unique potential by making choices that turn possibility into reality. It is the ability to make choices that actualize you. As often as not, maybe more often than not, this kind of freedom means doing what you do not want, doing what is uncomfortable or tiring or boring or annoying

  Gregory Millman

  Children, Mean, Parenting

  Martine Millman, Gregory Millman (2008). “Homeschooling: A Family's Journey”, p.69, Penguin

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• It's too easy to find people who've failed and are embittered. The best thing you can do is hang around people who've succeeded and are happy doing what you want to do. Learn from them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Rejection, Overcoming

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• If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

  Pat Benatar

  Blessing, Curse, Retired

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1997.

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• The risk of working with people you don't respect; the risk of working for a company whose values are incosistent with your own; the risk of compromising what's important; the risk of doing something that fails to express-or even contradicts--who you are. And then there is the most dangerous risk of all--the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

  Randy Komisar

  People, Risk, Important

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• I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.

  Tommy Chong

  Retirement, Mean, School

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• Really think hard about what you want to do, because when you're doing what you want to do is probably when you'll be doing your best. And pray it is not a hobby so they'll pay you for it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Desire, Hobbies

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• If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.

  Henry Cloud

  People, Community, Healthy

  "The secret to making New Year's resolutions stick" by Henry Cloud, www.foxnews.com. December 29, 2012.

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• In the clubs, the entertainment and the restaurant business are at war with each other. You get crowds that are not the greatest, and it becomes like a babysitting job, rather than doing what you want to do. I have a more deliberate pacing in my act, and having a half interested audience is death. They have to hear what I'm saying for it to pay off.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Jobs, War, Half

  Source: hollywoodchicago.com

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• When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "A Short Guide To A Happy Life". Book by Anna Quindlen, 2010.

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• Part of this individualism is you feel this pressure that you alone have to conquer the world, and if you don't work all the hours God gives then you start feeling really guilty. If you can stop feeling guilty, then I think it's easier to start doing what you want to do.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Conquer The World, Giving

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• I never sought to be a pundit, or on TV, or a writer-it just kind of came to me. If you just keep doing what you want to do, you wind up doing precisely what you want to be doing. Don't resist how life bats you around.

  Ann Coulter

  Wind, Bats, Tvs

  Interview with JD Jungle, www.lawcrossing.com.

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• I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Discovery, Opposites, Childhood

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• Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.

  Charlie Daniels

  Commitment, Lasts, Firsts

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