Projects Quotes

• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Motivation, Believe In Yourself

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

  Karl Marx

  Tasks, Matter, Arise

  Karl Marx, Eugene Kamenka (1983). “The Portable Karl Marx”, Viking Adult

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• Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Inspirational, Business, Loyal Customers

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• Since I started making art, I've always had some kind of project that was really about and for other people, because I think I just need that balance to feel sane myself — you know?

  Miranda July

  Art, Thinking, People

  YouTube Channel "Submarine Channel"/"Pretty Cool People Interviews - Miranda July", www.youtube.com. November 19, 2007.

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• In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.

  William James

  Inspirational, Successful, Important

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• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Future, Entrepreneur

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• Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

  Roger Martin

  Beautiful, Business, Work

  Roger Martin (2013). “Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage”, p.30, Harvard Business Press

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• I always think that the project I'm working on will be the best.

  Patricia Urquiola

  Thinking, Being The Best

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• But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science.

  David Hume

  Liberty, Free Will, Metaphysics

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Spring is the time of plans and projects.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spring, Springtime, Happy Spring

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.1150, e-artnow

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• And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me.

  Liza Minnelli

  People, Trying, Acting

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• We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Sarcastic, Falling In Love, Valentine

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• A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.

  Confucius

  Might, Matter, Disruption

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• A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Doe, World

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• For me, the most gratifying projects are ones that have the potential to bring people together - to overcome differences among various groups, and to spark dialogue.

  Nancy Kates

  Differences, People, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 'The Client List' is my baby. I always tell people, 'It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.' And, it really did take that long!

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Baby, Long, People

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. March 16, 2013.

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• Life is too short for non-WOW projects.

  Tom Peters

  Life Is Too Short, Wow, Life Is

  "The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!". Book by Tom Peters, December 15, 1999.

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• Sanctification is a community project.

  John Piper

  Community, Sanctification

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• I have a really small rear-view mirror in my life. I look at the rear-view mirror for memories and learning experiences, but I've got a big front windshield and I'm looking at right now. I've got so many projects on my plate.

  Pat Croce

  Memories, Mirrors, Views

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.

  Rosemary Verey

  Wise, Garden, Important

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• But when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop such a thing. If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good to find out what the realities are; that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest possible power to control the world and to deal with it according to its lights and values.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Jobs, Believe, Science

  J. Robert Oppenheimer's speech to the Association of Los Alamos Scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, www.atomicarchive.com. November 2, 1945.

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• In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.

  Lee Iacocca

  Money, Business, Moving

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• Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully, or the project team lacks the resolve to conduct a project effectively.

  Steve McConnell

  Teamwork, Two, Failing

  Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.7, Microsoft Press

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• Here it is: our collaboration with Project Spark . Instead of a traditional music video for GUILTY ALL THE SAME (feat. Rakim), we are giving you this as a starting line for you guys to create and share. This is the first interactive, remixable game. We look forward to seeing what you make with it.

  Joe

  Games, Giving, Guy

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• You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.

  Rainn Wilson

  Writing, Character, Creating

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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