Doing You Quotes - Page 9

• When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Night, Finding Yourself, Hustle

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• Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

  Joseph Campbell

  Pain, Knowing Who You Are, Giving

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• In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.

  Luis Fortuno

  Numbers, People, Facts

  "POLITICO interview: Gov. Fortuno". Interview with Michael Falcone and Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Successful, Way, True To Yourself

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• You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

  Jeff Raikes

  Hard Work, Entrepreneur, Passionate

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• I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

  Lois Lowry

  Thinking, People, Empowering

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• You know, 'Peepshow,' in retrospect that seems like a good fit for me, but in the beginning, I'm sure you remember, nobody was sure if the show was going to last. Everybody was like, 'What are you doing? You can't sing, and you can't dance. What are you doing in this show?

  Holly Madison

  Retrospect, Lasts, Remember

  "Holly Madison talks family, career and casting decisions as she ends ‘Peepshow’ run". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. October 23, 2012.

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• Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Art, Mean, Space

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.252, Shambhala Publications

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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• No matter what information you have, no matter what you are doing, you can be wrong.

  Larry Hite

  Information, Matter, No Matter What

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• If you're having fun doing what you're doing, you're gonna really want to work hard at it.

  Ted Ligety

  Fun, Hard Work, Want

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• I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

  Nick Nolte

  Thinking, Film, Great Film

  "Oscar race: Choosing between Tom Hanks and Tom Hanks" by Sherri Sylvester, www.cnn.com. January 28, 1999.

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• You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

  Willard Libby

  Honor, Individual, Made

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• Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.

  Biz Stone

  Inspirational, Graduation, Fall

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• A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Dream, Song, Phones

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• It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.

  Elizabeth Perkins

  Running, Good Friend, Common

  "Elizabeth Perkins Talks K-9's for Must Love Dogs". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. July 27, 2005.

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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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Men, Should

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• A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. 'Who is sufficient for these things?' What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Destiny, Men, Life And Death

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• You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated.
  If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.

  George Watsky

  Thinking, Might, Defeated

  Song: Never Let it Die, Album: All You Can Do, 2014

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• I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.

  Lady Starlight

  Real, Artist, Thinking

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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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Agents, Patterns, Awareness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.71, Penguin

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• If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

  Anita Baker

  Thinking, Style, Agendas

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• When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Knives, Two

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• Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is doing you a disservice.

  Walt F. J. Goodridge

  Weakness, Belief, Vengeance

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