Things To Do Quotes - Page 5

• There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.

  Teresa Heinz

  May, Noticing, Values

  Teresa Heinz's address to the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, www.washingtonpost.com. July 27, 2004.

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• I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'

  Dwyane Wade

  Summer, Kids, Parent

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• Are there so many fascinating, exciting things to do or so many challenges pressing down upon you that it is hard to keep focused on that which is essential? When things of the world crowd in, all too often the wrong things take highest priority. Then it is easy to forget the fundamental purpose of life. Satan has a powerful tool to use against good people. It is distraction. He would have good people fill life with 'good things' so there is no room for the essential ones. Have you unconsciously been caught in that trap?

  Richard G. Scott

  Powerful, People, Priorities

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• There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer

  Thinking, Long, Lists

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• After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Simple, Sound, Principles

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• I have a swagger coach that helps me and teaches me different swaggerific things to do.

  Justin Bieber

  Different, Swagger, Helping

  "Justin Bieber's Swagger Coach Moves On Part 2". www.imdb.com. October 4, 2011.

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• How come I have too many things to do all the time...??

  Hiroko Sakai

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• Entrepreneurs don’t do most of the work. Entrepreneurs identify the problems, discover the opportunities and then build processes to allow other people and other things to do the work.

  Mike Michalowicz

  Opportunity, People, Entrepreneur

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• If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.

  Janet Reno

  Integrity, Thinking, Addresses

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• I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

  Andrew Dost

  Thinking, Animal, Voice

  "'We Are Young' and Odd Souls: Chatting With Mutemath’s Darren King and fun.’s Andrew Dost". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

  Eason Jordan

  People, Information, Sin

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• I understood that there would be some backlash, and that scared me, honestly. But deep down, I felt like it was the right thing to do. And if I was to run away from what I felt in my soul was the right thing to do, that would make me a coward. I can’t live with that. God wouldn’t be able to put me where I am today, and as far as I’ve come in life, if I was a coward.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Running, Soul, Coward

  "Andrew Hawkins delivered an excellent speech regarding his call for justice". Andrew Hawkins' speech on his decision to wear a "Justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford" T-shirt during warm-ups and introductions before the game against the Bengals, waitingfornextyear.com. December 15, 2014.

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• I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Boys, Watches, Records

  "BLACK MUSIC MONTH: Legends Speak". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. June 19, 2012.

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• The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do.

  David Plotz

  Ideas, People, Just Being

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I'm so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It's an amazing thing to do, and when I started they both said, you know, the problem with columns is they just exist forever.

  David Plotz

  Grateful, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.slate.com

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• You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.

  Vera Farmiga

  Laughing, Cameras, Difficult

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• I didn't want to do a costume drama. It's a great thing to do, but I've done them, and I didn't want to do the same thing again. Of course, costume dramas can be from all different eras, but at the time, I just felt very sure that I didn't want to be boxed in as an English actress. I wanted to be an actress, rather than an English actress.

  Carey Mulligan

  Drama, Different, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

  Jeremy Piven

  Climbing, Stage Actors, Records

  Source: collider.com

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• God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

  George MacDonald

  Son, Men, Done

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.5956, Delphi Classics

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• I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.

  Mary Oliver

  Powerful, Writing, Thinking

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• Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day.

  Brian Tracy

  Procrastination, Giving, Energy

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• The most important thing to do before you die is live.

  Simon Sinek

  Important, Dies, Important Things

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2010

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• I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Weight, Losing

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• It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

  Frank Luntz

  Emotional, Tears, Way

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• The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

  Janet Reno

  Success, America, Justice

  "Janet Reno's Choice". Janet Reno's speech before the American Law Institute in Philadelphia, PA, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 1994.

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