Done Quotes - Page 143

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.

What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.

That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.

All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.

It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.

I still love it, every day. I get up and I love going to work. I love seeing it all happen, and I admire the people that we work with. I just hope that the films will continue to entertain audiences, as they have done for 50 years.

Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)