Doing You Quotes - Page 4

• For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

  John Wooden

  Fun, Athlete, Goal

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Candidates rarely win battles with the media, and unless you really know what you're doing you should not tangle with them. The exception is when you know this is a search-and- destroy mission on the part of the media and your case is very strong, you are very articulate, you know what you're trying to accomplish - and you have no alternatives.

  Roger Ailes

  Strong, Winning, Media

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• I found with my students they don't necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what's relevant to what's he doing you see.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Looks, Students, Internet

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Good comics stick around. There are people who have TV shows that might be successful, but comics can't really fake it. If you say, 'Hey, I love what you guys are doing - you're funny,' then you're in. It's legit.

  Wanda Sykes

  Successful, Tv Shows, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You just don't have the time to worry about what others are doing. You just want to take care of your own business. You are focused on that tee shot on the 10th tee and making it to the finish line. It's one of the most stressful moments in professional golf, but you have worked so hard to get to that point, that it really is fun.

  Mike Weir

  Fun, Golf, Worry

  Sky Sports Interview, www.skysports.com. July 3, 2011.

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• If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel with a purpose, it is different. When you go somewhere important or you return home from a long journey, you build a shape around you and it reaches out ahead to touch your destination.

  Lyall Watson

  Beach, Home, Journey

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• I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything - but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Thinking, Comedian, Trying

  "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

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• You have to love yourself before you can love anyone. I think that’s very, very important, no matter how old you are or what you’re doing. You have to be able to love yourself because that’s when things fall into place.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Fall, Love You, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Sep 11, 2012

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• Whatever you're doing, you must have patience.

  John Wooden

  Having Patience

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.124, B&H Publishing Group

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• If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

  John Medina

  Design, Brain, Cubicles

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.14, Pear Press

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• If you hug someone goodbye and their response is what the hell are you doing? - you may want to examine you're definition of close friend.

  Dov Davidoff

  Goodbye, Hug, May

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• If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Encounters, Example

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• I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.

  Chris Brown

  Girl, Mom, School

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• If you're the sort of person that likes a job where once you know what you're doing you can keep doing what you're doing, don't ever become a film composer.

  Henry Jackman

  Jobs, Likes, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• The day you shoot something, everything changes. You still have the same overall vision and approach. You create a world that you're going to be true to or the film tells you what you're going to do. And so, it's like you've got a philosophy of what you're doing. You try and have that changing texturally over the movie.

  Fred Schepisi

  Philosophy, Vision, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• I've seen a lot of people getting into Jazzmasters because of me, and, well, people don't know what they're in for. I mean if you're looking for endless sustain, you're going to have to get it out of your hands (laughs). Because a saxophonist gets it out of his breath. You've got to work for it on the guitar - it means you have to pull it out of yourself, otherwise, what are you doing? You end up playing a lot of noise or scale exercises.

  Tom Verlaine

  Mean, Exercise, Guitar

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• You learn to do by doing. You learn to be by being.

  H. Burke Peterson

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Once you try to do more than your equipment is capable of doing you get yourself in trouble and you start wrecking.

  Dale Jarrett

  Trying, Trouble, Equipment

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• If you are exercising to that point it is not doing you any good in terms of fitness, as it is all lactic acid and you can get injured but I think coaches were seeing how far you'd go for the team.

  Colin Kazim-Richards

  Team, Exercise, Thinking

  "Football Pre-Season Training". Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com.

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• Make sure you are doing something you love to do when working out. Nobody likes to work, so when you do choose a workout, make it something you enjoy doing. You won't stick with it if you hate it and if it feels like work. Find something fun.

  Miesha Tate

  Workout, Fun, Hate

  Source: me.askmen.com

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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.

  Kevin Smith

  Focus, Want, Succeed

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• I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.

  Herb Alpert

  Men, Thinking, Creative

  "Jazz musician Herb Alpert". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2013.

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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.

  Jacob Vargas

  Actors, Never Quit, Emotion

  "Jacob Vargas from Sons of Anarchy: Making the Most of Pain, Chaos, and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  Herman Cain

  Wise, Successful, Keys

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