Quotes about Thinking and Doing

Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise. Votes: 3

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all. Votes: 2

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do. Votes: 2

Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small. Votes: 2

I enjoy waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Who do I want to be today?' Votes: 2

I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. Votes: 2

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry? Votes: 2

I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do. Votes: 2

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well. Votes: 2

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it. Votes: 2

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. Votes: 2

I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit. Votes: 2

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious. Votes: 2

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film. Votes: 2

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time. Votes: 2

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. Votes: 2

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. Votes: 2

I work day-to-day on C# and .Net and work at home two days a week so I can do deep thinking, writing and reflecting. Votes: 2

I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking. Votes: 2

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating. Votes: 2

In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next? Votes: 2

Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing. Votes: 0

I'm tired of people thinking they're doing me favours. Votes: 0

I'm thinking about doing a First World War film. Votes: 0

To initiate (user) action, doing must be easier than thinking. Votes: 0

Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking. Votes: 0

Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing Votes: 0

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy. Votes: 0

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing. Votes: 0

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good. Votes: 0

When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking. Votes: 0

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. Votes: 0

People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things. Votes: 0

Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff. Votes: 0

Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them. Votes: 0

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing. Votes: 0

Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking." Cam: "Oh God." Avery: "Shut up. Votes: 0

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. Votes: 0

You're afraid because you're thinking about the end, not about what you're doing. Votes: 0

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. Votes: 0

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking. Votes: 0

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it. Votes: 0

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking. Votes: 0

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing Votes: 0

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it. Votes: 0

Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition. Votes: 0

A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram. Votes: 0

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself. Votes: 0

Each day, whatever I am doing, I am always praying and thinking of God. Votes: 0

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it. Votes: 0

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being. Votes: 0

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. Votes: 0

My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence). Votes: 0

I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect. Votes: 0

I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible. Votes: 0

These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking. Votes: 0

My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling. Votes: 0

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking. Votes: 0

Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young. Votes: 0

Consistency in right thinking and right doing is how you stay up in a down world. Votes: 0

I hate thinking about what I'm doing. I wish I didn't think about it at all. Votes: 0

Stop thinking... Start doing. Think less... Do more. Do the thing... And you will know the way. Votes: 0

I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well. Votes: 0

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it. Votes: 0

Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation. Votes: 0

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it. Votes: 0

Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you. Votes: 0

Golf got complicated when I had to wear shoes and begin thinking about what I was doing. Votes: 0

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something. Votes: 0

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do. Votes: 0

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, "What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right? Votes: 0

I don't wase time thinking, 'Am I doing it right?' I say, 'Am I doing it?' Votes: 0

I'm always thinking if I'm not doing something to get ahead in life, someone else is doing it. Votes: 0

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. Votes: 0

I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things. Votes: 0

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying. Votes: 0

There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things. Votes: 0

I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?' Votes: 0

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think. Votes: 0

I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much. Votes: 0

You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes. Votes: 0

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out. Votes: 0

Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'. Votes: 0

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough. Votes: 0

My real thinking and planning gets done when I'm doing something else like driving or walking or taking the shower. Votes: 0

What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you Votes: 0

In order to grow we must be open to new ideas...new ways of doing things... new ways of thinking. Votes: 0

The key to success isn't just thinking about what we are doing but doing something about what we are thinking. Votes: 0

I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking. Votes: 0

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business. Votes: 0

Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting. Votes: 0

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film. Votes: 0

The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger. Votes: 0

Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better. Votes: 0

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing. Votes: 0

Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem. Votes: 0

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done. Votes: 0

Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence. Votes: 0

When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do. Votes: 0

Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization. Votes: 0

You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.' Votes: 0

When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing. Votes: 0

Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else. Votes: 0

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking. Votes: 0

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film. Votes: 0

There is a huge value placed in our world on doing what everyone else is doing and thinking as everyone else is thinking. Votes: 0

At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is. Votes: 0

I believe Jesus wasn't thinking about miracle when He performed it. He's just doing normal activities as he did in His heavenly kingdom. Votes: 0

It is not enough to want to make the effort... it's in the doing, not just the thinking that we accomplish our goals. Votes: 0

What ever your doing right now, whatever your thinking, or worrying about. stop. take a huge breathe in, and just enjoy being alive. Votes: 0

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden. Votes: 0

A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking! Votes: 0

A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God Votes: 0

It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling. Votes: 0

One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking. Votes: 0

I have a positive core, and what I'm doing for music and Earth and the people is more living and less critical thinking. Votes: 0

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing. Votes: 0

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time. Votes: 0

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one. Votes: 0

I've made mistakes before of doing different projects just based on my dreams, my hopes, my thing, and not really thinking about my customers. Votes: 0

Losers spend time explaining why they lost. Losers spend their lives thinking about what they're going to do. They rarely enjoy doing what they're doing. Votes: 0

Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life. Votes: 0

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good. Votes: 0

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading. Votes: 0

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. Votes: 0

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule... Votes: 0

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it. Votes: 0

There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing. Votes: 0

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor. Votes: 0

I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day. Votes: 0

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics. Votes: 0

I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas. Votes: 0

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. Votes: 0

A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking. Votes: 0

I spend a fair amount of time just thinking about whether something is feasible or not, and if it is feasible, whether it's really worth doing. Votes: 0

Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems. Votes: 0

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something. Votes: 0

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. Votes: 0

The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more. Votes: 0

I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?' Votes: 0

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing. Votes: 0

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major. Votes: 0

Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice. Votes: 0

And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good. Votes: 0

I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician. Votes: 0

Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems. Votes: 0

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something. Votes: 0

What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over. Votes: 0

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating." Votes: 0

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born. Votes: 0

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. Votes: 0

Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react. Votes: 0

I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting. Votes: 0

I think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know. Votes: 0

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once. Votes: 0

I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be doing with my life. Votes: 0

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it. Votes: 0

You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but it was just something to keep me busy. Votes: 0

For me, there is only one question to ask when I am thinking, saying, or doing anything: "What does this have to do with the agenda of my soul?" Votes: 0

Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative. Votes: 0

If you think of harming someone, this is the same as actually doing it, in terms of the spiritual world, since the spiritual world is vibrational, which includes thinking. Votes: 0

Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?" "Thinking." "Thinking?" "A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision. Votes: 0

I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I don't see philosophy as an academic enterprise. Votes: 0

Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now. Votes: 0

Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks. Votes: 0

I don't think making love the new bottom line is naïve; I believe that thinking we can survive the next hundred years doing anything less, is naïve. Votes: 0

As a feminist you feel you have to be actively doing things 
to relieve women's plight. Actually, feminism is just thinking 
we should have the same rights as men Votes: 0