Done Quotes - Page 17

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.

The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done.

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has to be done day after day, and you never quit.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by M.B.A.’s. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn’t been done before.

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.

What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself. And that can be done at any level.

Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.

I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.

In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

Good design, when done well, should be invisible.

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.

Perfection is lots of little things done well.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

I did nothing wrongEverything I've done at this university I did the right way.