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Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
— David Brooks
Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.
— Alanis Morissette
That's why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?
— Chuck Wendig
We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.
— Dillon Burroughs
Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
— Arthur C. Clarke
And why do we think for a second that having the government involved will make things better
— Adam Carolla
We've had crooks from the beginning of time ... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.
— Henry Paulson
We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
— Marina Abramovic
One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why not learn some lessons from Virginia?
— Tim Kaine
Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart.
— Denzel Washington
Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?
— Arianna Huffington
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
— Lukas Foss
Why do we so often put off the things that matter most to us?
— Jan-Philipp Sendker
People live their lives thinking that they are forgotten, and that is why we do the most outrageous things, so as not to go unnoticed
— Rawi Hage
We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.
— Anthony Horowitz
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
— Robert Henri
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
— Bryant H. McGill
People think of all kinds of things at three in the morning. We all do. That's why we each have to figure out our own way of fighting it off.
— Haruki Murakami
Why do we do that? Why are the painful things always electromagnets?
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them?
— R. K. Milholland
The power of lack can trigger so many actions and things! We do because we lack something! We act because we need something!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction.
— Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.
— Ellen DeGeneres
Things that we do without knowing why are we doing them are usually the best things that we do.
— Minhal Mehdi
What is it about business that makes us laugh - when things go wrong, which they do all the time (why, I still wish I knew) then we need to laugh.
— Ronnie Apteker
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
— Bertolt Brecht
Why do we believe in things we cannot see?
— Keith Donohue
We are constantly trying to hold it all together. If you really want to see why you do things, then don't do them and see what happens.
— Michael A. Singer
I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.
— Paul Bloom
If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
— Caitlin Doughty
Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
— Robert A. Heinlein