Projects Quotes - Page 23

• Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council.

  Tom Lantos

  New York, Profound, Weakness

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• Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Space, Giving, Advice

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• I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.

  Jack White

  Done

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• It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Finishing, Almost Done, Painting

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• All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me - probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Character, Talking, Exhibitionism

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• The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.

  Lars von Trier

  Betrayal, Risk, Trying

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• The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst of class and averages. In addition, it profiles the state of the art of software construction and enhancement. I wish I'd had this wonderful reference book years ago.

  Tom DeMarco

  Art, Book, Average

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• If you have a privately owned system, there's going to be monies leaving the community that will go towards shareholder dividends and high salaries. If you have a community owned, municipally owned facility, those extra resources are being reinvested in the community and they can be going to weatherization and other projects that are vested in the community.

  Bill Simmons

  Communication, Community, Leaving

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• It's important to balance the drudgery with inspiration. It's a nightmare if you are just existing in the present project - you don't feel a sense of your own growth.

  Peter Wolf

  Inspiration, Growth, Balance

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• Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.

  Tara Strong

  Play, Voice, Personality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the false self we project. We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true self.

  Basil Pennington

  Beautiful, Self, Painful Experiences

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• For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

  Robert Genn

  Self, Going Out, Planning

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• I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wise, Strong, Army

  "Mémorial de Sainte Hélène: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena, Part 4" by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases, (p. 133), 1823.

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• It is a fact that you project what you are.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Facts

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• Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.

  Ann Landers

  Perseverance, Maturity, Sweat

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• My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.

  Walt Disney

  Fun, Problem

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• Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.

  JR

  Art, Motivation, Inspiration

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• [W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to 'multiply and replenish the earth.' Surely those who project such measures to prevent life or to destroy life before or after birth will reap the whirlwind of God's retribution, for God will not be mocked.

  Harold B. Lee

  Birth Control, Earth, Sin

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• My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, Keys, People

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.53, Prabhat Prakashan

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• When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.

  Walt Disney

  Average, Bats, Bounds

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• The reticent volcano keeps
  His never slumbering plan -
  Confided are his projects pink
  To no precarious man.

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Volcanoes, Plans

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2030, Delphi Classics

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• The simplified life is a sanctified life, Much more calm, much less strife. Oh, what wondrous truths are unveiled- Projects succeed which had previously failed. Oh, how beautiful life can be, Beautiful simplicity.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Succeed

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.58, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.

  Gordon Bell

  Blue, Sky, Guy

  "Remember This?" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2007.

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• Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Ideas, Enlightenment

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• Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Women, Fighting

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