Sentence examples for doing something instead from inspiring English sources

But if she had never been in foster care, she said, "I would have been on my way to doing something, instead of staring down my four walls".

It must be nice to actually be good at doing something instead of being shitty at the guitar like how I was.

"In an odd way, having cancer was easier than recovery — at least in chemo I was doing something, instead of just waiting for it to come back," he wrote.

Hearst's career and his power provided a dangerous subject that stimulated and energized all those connected with the picture — they felt they were doing something instead of just working on one more cooked-up story that didn't relate to anything that mattered.

Mr. Hambrecht added, "Believe it or not, there is a huge number of artists who'd rather be doing something instead of just sitting around drinking beer in some loft, or at least they'd rather be drawing Bible pictures while they're sitting around drinking beer in some loft".

"In my business — startups — you would have had people excited about doing something instead of just being depressed".

Despite all that, we often chose to do something instead of just standing there.

"It's time for them to do something instead of doing nothing.

You do a job and then you think, 'When will I work again?' It's a very tiny bracket who get to choose if they do something, instead of being chosen.

This perhaps implies that letting people do something, instead of introducing what activity they should do, must be a critical cornerstone for behavioral changes towards environmentally responsible manners.

'It is about sharing your intent to do something instead of what you've already done,' is how founder Jyri Engestrom puts it".