Being Done Quotes

• Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

  John Bonifaz

  Motivational, Perseverance, War

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• Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

  Miles Davis

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Attitude, Yoga

  The Wall Street Journa, Summer 1993.

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Thinking, Solitude, Innovation

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• Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.168, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

  Aaron Levie

  Done, Way, Assumption

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2013

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• There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

  Julia Cameron

  Frustration, Artistic Life, Done

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.21, Souvenir Press

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• Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Sex, Humorous

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• I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Names, Ideas

  Interview with Svetlana Vukovic, Svetlana Lukic, www.b92.net. September 19, 2001.

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• Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.

  James Forten

  Tyrants, America, Long

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• And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.

  Dennis Muren

  Want, Stuff, Done

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• A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it

  Pablo Picasso

  Mind, Done, Goes On

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• The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

  Charles M. Vest

  Real, Done, Mit

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• We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.

  Ben Ehrenreich

  Names, Democracy, Done

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• Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

  Propertius

  Money, Men, Gold

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• The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done on their behalf, what is being done is not properly ambitious. If it is comprehensible to its intended beneficiaries, it is the work of insufficiently advanced thinkers.

  George Will

  People, Political, Ambitious

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• It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Years, Done

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• The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the air we breathe - chemicals that have the known effect of reducing fertility and shortening lifespan.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Drinking, Air, Medicine

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• Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing animals and is stopped physically, whether with the use of force, or is killed, I certainly wouldn't lose sleep over that idea.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Sleep, Animal, Ideas

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• There’s a lot of work being done today that doesn’t have any soul in it. The technique may be the utmost perfection, yet it is lifeless. It doesn’t have a soul. I hope my furniture has a soul to it.

  Sam Maloof

  Perfection, Soul, Furniture

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• If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.

  Paul Lockhart

  Crush, Jobs, Children

  "A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form". Book by Paul Lockhart, 2009.

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• Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

  Chris Ware

  Believe, Done, Wells

  "Q&A: Comix Stars Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware and Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez". Interview with Sean T. Collins, www.rollingstone.com. September 26, 2012.

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