Done Quotes - Page 32

How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know.

One of the keys to success is an unflinching belief that there are no rules. Anyone who's ever succeeded has gone on that premise; not buying established procedures, business or otherwise. The naysayers are inevitably left behind amid shouts of 'it cannot be done' and "should not be done'."

What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today?

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground.

Most people never realize that 80% of the work is done before you step in a room. That's why they spend their entire lives grasping for magical tactics instead of changing their entire mindset.

When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.

If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day’s work you have done today?

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.

A person with a golden heart is filled with love and likes to see something that he starts completed and done well.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done