Doings Quotes - Page 6

• I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.

  Derrick Jensen

  Reading, Sleep, Thinking

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.109, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Mistake, Fall

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• If I must be ruled by larcenous bullies, I much prefer that they be located far away. Local bullies know far more about me and my doings than faraway bullies sitting in offices in Washington, and can oppress me far more effectively.

  Henry Spencer

  Office, Bully, Sitting

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• That's your doing. Now in order to affect that doing I am going to recommend that you learn another doing... It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself to either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the note-doing of the self

  Carlos Castaneda

  Real, Lying, Self

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• [Chamber of Reflection off of Salad Days]I think it's probably that one. There's no guitar on that song, I've never recorded a song with absolutely no guitar, which is interesting. The idea behind it, well it's a Free Mason reference because before they become Free Mason's they had to go into this room called the Chamber of Reflection where they think about the life they brought with them, the life they've lived up until this point and all their wrong and right doings. And that's basically what I did with this album.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Reflection, Thinking

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Sleep, Understanding

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.

  Thomas Frank

  Hipster, Teenager, Eye

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.113, MIT Press

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• So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Perfect, Acting

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• You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).

  Larry Moss

  Emotional, Play, Trying

  Larry Moss (2004). “The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor”, p.49, Bantam

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• The government and its prosecutors are continually trying to block my efforts to win my freedom and expose their judicial wrong doings; they systematically try to block me from obtaining FBI files which I know would exonerate me. I don't know the exact conditions of everybody else, but I do know that I have been denied adequate and proper health care and I suffer greatly from that.

  Leonard Peltier

  Block, Winning, Government

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of others. But they are also interested, and chiefly interested upon the whole, in entering into the activities of others and taking part in conjoint and cooperative doings. Otherwise, no such thing as a community would be possible.

  John Dewey

  Community, Entering, May

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

  Martin Luther

  Names, Secret, Praying

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

  Voltaire

  Men, Use, Speech

  "Le Chapon et la Poularde (1763)". Dialogue by Voltaire, Dialogue XIV, 1766.

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• Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on.

  Bob Marley

  Selfish, Not Selfish

  Song: Pass It On, Album: Burnin', 1973

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• The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Gossip, Indignant, Objections

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• Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.

  Louise Hart

  Too Much, Expenses, Humans

  Louise Hart (1994). “On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation”

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• God, who oft descends to visit men
  Unseen, and through their habitations walks
  To mark their doings.

  John Milton

  God, Men, Unseen

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.522

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• You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.

  Orson Welles

  Morning, Japan, Play

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• Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Vanity, Honor

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• A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Thinking, Kind

  Wendell Berry (2009). “A Place on Earth”, p.180, Counterpoint

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• By God ye shall be called to account for your doings!

  Elijah Muhammad

  Book, Holy, Accounts

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• Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will repent of the evil which he has pronounced against you.

  Jeremiah

  Voice, Evil, Way

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Pride, Names

  Charles Dickens (1995). “Christmas Books”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

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• Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.

  Albertus Magnus

  Nature, Clever, Women

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• Take care, then, to be firmly grounded in the teachings of the Lord and his apostles so that you may prosper in all your doings both in body and in soul, in faith and in love, in the Son, and in the Father and in the Spirit, in the beginning and in the end, along with your most worthy bishop and his spiritual crown, your presbyters, and with the deacons, who are men of God.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Spiritual, Father, Teaching

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