Doing - Quotes
Punk is musical freedom. It`s saying, doing and playing what you want. [...] `Nirvana` means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that`s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Only atheists can be moral. If you`re doing it for reward or to avoid punishment, it`s not morality.
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.
It`s the action, not the fruit of the action, that`s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there will be any fruit. But that doesn`t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results.
I can only do so much
And of course it`s never enough
I don`t think that you see
Exactly what you`re doing to me.
A lot of times when people make accusations like that about other people - "Oh, he can't really be doing this for principled reasons, he must have some corrupt, nefarious reason" - they're saying a lot more about themselves than they are the target of their accusations, because those people, the ones who make that accusation, they themselves never act for any reason other than corrupt reasons, so they assume that everybody else is plagued by the same disease of soullessness as they are, and so that's the assumption.
Every feature of a human organization is a result of a history, so that everything about them is negotiable and subject to improvement by the invention of new ways of doing things.
Darwin`s idea of evolution by natural selection is, in my opinion, the single best idea that anybody has ever had, because in a single bold stroke it unites meaning with matter, two aspects of reality that appear to be worlds apart. On one side, we have the world of our minds and their meanings, our goals, our hopes, and our yearnings, and that most honored - and hackneyed - of all philosophical topics, the Meaning of Life. On the other side, we have galaxies ceaselessly wheeling, planets falling pointlessly into their orbits, lifeless chemical mechanisms doing what physics ordains, all without purpose or reason. Then Darwin comes along and shows us how the former arises from the latter, creating meaning as it goes, a bubble-up vision of the birth of importance to overthrow the trickle-down vision of tradition.
It doesn't matter what you did or where you were, it matters where you are and what you're doing.
The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don`t work, you must throw them away. Don`t waste any neurons on what doesn`t work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.