Done Quotes - Page 158

It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.

O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?

Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and the affirmation of a personality. What is marvelous about a photograph is that its possibilities are infinite; there aren't any subjects 'done to death'.

After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.

The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!

Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.

If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

Hey Lord... Whatever I done... Don't strike me blind for another couple ah minutes.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.

I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that’s just what I’ve gone and done.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

The great thing about having been in a lot of make-up, and stuff like that, is that when you're working with someone who's in it, and you've been there and done it, but you're not in it anymore, you feel so good.

The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?

I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.