Doing What You Want Quotes by Lucy Punch, Tom Hodgkinson, Hugh Douglas, Confucius, John Updike, Salman Rushdie and many others.
Do your best with what you have where you are.
Part of this individualism is you feel this pressure that you alone have to conquer the world, and if you don’t work all the hours God gives then you start feeling really guilty. If you can stop feeling guilty, then I think it’s easier to start doing what you want to do.
Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to be done.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake.
People aren’t against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.
People will always be around to tell you you’re no good or you’re wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. They’re wrong. They’re always wrong. Keep going.
When you’re following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.
The real cake isn’t HAVING what you want, it’s DOING what you want
I never sought to be a pundit, or on TV, or a writer-it just kind of came to me. If you just keep doing what you want to do, you wind up doing precisely what you want to be doing. Don’t resist how life bats you around.
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
If you’re retired, it’s a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it’s not a blessing as all – it’s a curse.
I think when you first get a job, you’re just trying to do what the last regime did, just to keep it going, as opposed to actually doing what you want to do.
Doing what you want to do is life.
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
