Saying And Doing Quotes

Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Saying and doing are two things.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

I got very self-conscious about the way I look. So I, especially with young people coming into the industry and young actors, I feel it's really terrible to start with their looks. Right? Because especially for women, it just puts you in your head at a time when you should really be focused on your work and what you're saying and doing and not how you look.

On doing what you want to do.

What we also need to have a discussion on the philosophy of art: so we must ask what is it that we want in the first place? Is it just about saying and doing whatever you want, or is it about something more? We should let the artist be free, but we must also question how exactly he deals with freedom. Is it arts for elevation or arts for destruction? Is there dignity in the process?

What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.

The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.

I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.

Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.

The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

History is the same thing over and over again.