If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Ayn Rand

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
Woody Allen

Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'
Steven Wright

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
Jim Morrison

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
Leonardo da Vinci

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Robert A. Heinlein

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
John Steinbeck

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker