#Doing Quotes

“No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.”

“When you grow up believing you are what you do, when you're done, you aren't.”

“If you are what you do, then when you don't, you aren't.”

“Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.”

“Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.”

“Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.”

“What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.”

“Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

“There is no doing in the world without being first.”

“Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.”

“To be is to do.”

“The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.”

“Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.”

“Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.”

“When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.”

“Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?”

“How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.”

“Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.”

“When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success”

“It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?”

“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.”