In this post, you will find great Done Quotes from famous people, such as Ken Shamrock, Terry Pratchett, Isoroku Yamamoto, Arsene Wenger, Greta Gerwig. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough, I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more.
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us – public, private, and secret.
Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
I wanted people not to care about whether you were gay, straight, black, white, transgender, whatever it may be… That being said, there’s more work to be done… I still want to change the world, absolutely.
Don’t let what you don’t know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you’re guaranteed to do them differently.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
We just want to win. That’s the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don’t really reflect on what we’ve done in the past. We focus on the present.
I have done a lot of crazy things in my life, and I do not regret anything.
Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you’ve done. Actions speak louder than words.
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti – and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera… which can spread like wildfire in Haiti… This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
If the Devil can only make you think that you are abused or ill treated, and you begin to fret about it, and you give the Devil power over you – in the end, it is as bad as though you had done wrong yourself.
I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it’s done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can’t help but admire the liar.
One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
When I get bored with something, I’m done with it.
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
A lot of what I’ve done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise – the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there’s a pearl inside.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it’s our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
You take wins where you can get them because they’re not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and you’ve done something.
I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I’ve ever done.
Life is too short to hold regrets. Once it’s done, you cannot regret it.
I always say I should do more yoga. Or do yoga – more would mean I do some. I’ve done none. But I always want to do yoga because I’m getting old. Nerves are getting pinched every other day, and I really just gotta get more limber.
I’ve never regretted anything I’ve done, even the things that I’ve failed at. I’ve often regretted not trying something really big, because you’ll never know.
I’ve done my time. I’ve done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.
What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and ruminating over the past. I am a forward-looking man. I want to look ahead; I want to put my past behind me. I want to make my country proud.
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.
Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The moment you’re born you’re done for.
In a way, I got away with a lot because a lot of our partying was done behind closed doors. But I don’t ever want to be that person again, who embarrasses my family with my behaviour.
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.
Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
I have three assistants, but there isn’t a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.
In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.
Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you’d be surprised how many people simply list everything they’ve ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.
Things don’t always go your way in football: there are always good and bad times. At the end of the day, you have to have a positive attitude and a strong mentality and not let any setbacks get you down. And that’s what I’ve done – I’ve tried to keep my composure, even when things aren’t going the way I’d like.
Well done is better than well said.
I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.
I’ve got far to go. There’s always more to be done.
I suppose we’ll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn’t put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?
A busybody’s work is never done.
I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy‘s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.
What one has to do usually can be done.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you’re done for.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents.
I’ve worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I’ve also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it’s important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I’ve been helped a lot in my life.
If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what’s going on up there in the space program, then my job’s been done.
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun.
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
When I perform as a solo, I think a lot about what I always wanted to do but have not done yet.
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Sometimes you have to park things you’re not happy with, because there are more important things to be done.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Grooming should be done in moderation.
It’s not my habit to kiss and tell. I’ve never done it.
We’ve gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the ‘caustic caucus,’ and we can’t get anything done.
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
One thing I’ve done in my life is train year-round to compete at anything, anything. I’ve got an invitation now to maybe be on the karate team for the Barcelona Olympics. I’m debating whether I want to do that. I just love to compete, and I want to win.
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
You are so much more than the worst thing you’ve ever done.
You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you’d like to have it done. And I’ve always been able to surround myself with really good people.
A couple of years ago I decided that my dream is to dance with J.Lo. She was on top of my dreamboard and I’ve talked about her in almost every interview I’ve done, whenever they ask what my biggest dreams are.
I love to travel and to be inspired by new things, so everything is always new. I’ve never done the same bathroom or the same kitchen a second time. It’s challenging, and I like to be challenged.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today.
In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Well done is better than well said.
You have only to see what became of my father‘s will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.
Discrimination is not done by villains. It’s done by us.
No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven’t done.
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you can produce beauty in the context of a figure that has that kind of velvety blackness. It can be done.
I reckon I’ve done my bit. I want to enjoy myself a bit now, with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say.
When you want a thing done, ‘Don’t do it yourself’ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
I have no regrets, because I’ve done everything I could to the best of my ability.
A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I’ve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn’t even realized I was carrying.
In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don’t feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
It’s not just lip service when I say I’m going to fight for the people. I’ve done that as a citizen already.
Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?
I don’t like listening to records a lot after they’re done. There’s just no real nourishment there for me.
To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I’d done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.
Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.
Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
I don’t really care what other people see me as. I seriously don’t. I’ve always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I’ve always thought that it carries most weight. So I don’t care what other people’s opinion of me is or how they view whatever I’ve said or done.
There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it’s being done to him or by him.
Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
I like a movie that brings out many discussions. From my experience, every time I have done movies, they create this kind of situation. Like ‘Irreversible,’ ‘The Passion of the Christ,’ ‘Malena’; it’s so interesting. I like to explore the dark side of humanity. That’s why I’m an actor.
One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.
I love video games. I’m also slightly in awe of them. I’m in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I’m in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we’ve ever invented has quite done before.
That’s the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives, you get to make a difference. You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you’ve done something for someone who will never pay you back.
Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it’s just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I’ve done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she‘s 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.
Television: A medium. So called because it’s neither rare nor well done.
You can try to make the right decision all the time, but it’s better to just make a decision. I have done wrong so many times, but nine times out of 10, I have learned from my failure. Don’t wait for something; just go for it.
I don’t care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.
I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.
‘Perfection’ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‘I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.’ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.
At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours‘ walk, come back in, and record. And then the sun came up. If I had done something good, then I’d be happy and go to sleep.
It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
I know I haven’t always done things the right way. I’m just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
Awards are like a pat of appreciation from the jury and viewers. It is almost like them saying, ‘So, you have done well; we expect you to carry on doing good work.’
The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don’t necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.
I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.
One of the things you learn in football is that you’re only as good as your last outing. I don’t like to reflect on what we’ve done in the past. I’m not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I’d disappoint you. When it’s time, I’ll talk about the good old days. But it’s a sign of old age, reveling in the past.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
I’m looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don’t matter to me. I want someone who’s qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.
I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.
I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I’ve done all I can to prepare, that’s when I race the best and in ’09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.
Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done.
Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Getting all of the nutrients you need simply cannot be done without supplements.
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that’s all I would be remembered for.
I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.
We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.
You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
I wrote ‘Love Foolish,’ and when I heard the music for the first time, it felt like this was a song that Twice hadn’t done before. I thought the song and music had a very mature tone, so I wrote the lyrics to match. I was inspired by the music directly.
Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
I believe it matters how you treat people. I believe in Heaven. I don’t believe that this is it, and then we’re done. I have a lovely relationship with God, although when I’ve lost someone or I’ve seen a sick child, I’ve had conversations with Him in which I’ve had to ask, ‘How can that be right?’
Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
I love Jesus Christ with all my heart and everything He stands for. I think that sums up everything that I want for my life, everything I want for my family, everything I want for my career. I want it to be entertaining. I want people to smile and tap their toes, but I want it to be meaningful when the day is done.
Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
Perhaps I created the monster Ramsay, who ended up as a TV personality screaming at celebrities on ‘Hell’s Kitchen,’ doing to them what I had done to him.
Operation Bluestar was a mischievous blunder, and it should not have been done.
If I can help one person in this world, then it’s enough, and I’ve done my job.
Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
What hasn’t Barbie been? I don’t think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
Every time I’ve done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there’s always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they’re just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
I know I may have done some bad things, but I’m not a bad person.
I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That’s exactly what I’ve done.
Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it’s about how many peoples’ lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
There’s no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.
I’m doing a film called ‘Black Mass‘ where I play James Bulger. The reason to play him is obvious to me. He’s a fascinating character. It’s not like anything I’ve done before on that level. I’m very excited to slide into that skin for a little bit.
I loved ‘True Detective‘ so much in Season 1, and then when the Season 2 monstrosity came around, I was like, ‘What is this show? What have you done to this show?’
Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
I was working for a chef a long time ago who told me to not skip steps or be in a hurry. Success in a kitchen is more like a marathon and less like a sprint. Rising up the ranks too quickly isn’t necessarily a good thing. This advice was from a guy who was sorry he had done that and didn’t want me to do the same.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
I think the things that everyone can do are small things, but if they’re done, it will eventually help the environment. I think recycling is the biggest effort I’m making.
Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they’re over-the-hill at age 50, I don’t understand it.
The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya – the Papunya Artists – performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They’d never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology – looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust.
The scribbler’s life is never done.
What’s done can’t be undone.
Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy – which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.
I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn’t.
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.
Go for great. Own your game. Be kind. Get big things done.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say ‘well done’.
Wherever I see people doing something the way it’s always been done, the way it’s ‘supposed’ to be done, following the same old trends, well, that’s just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.
A leader‘s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
I can’t ever imagine going in for short hair. I’m somehow not comfortable in getting a short haircut done.
I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
Oh, I don’t think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That’s not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he’d prefer me to do it than somebody else.
I do not regret the things I’ve done, but those I did not do.
Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done.
There is an issue of what does the U.S. expect abroad and what does the U.S. give at home. I think there’s a reconciliation there that needs to be done.
When I’m retired someday, when I’m done playing football, that’s when I’ll be relaxing and look back at some things.
Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.
Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer‘s Society.
In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper.
You have to understand that every negotiation isn’t about taking everything off the table. It’s cliche, but you have to try and make sure the other side feels good and you feel good. Because in my business, when I make a deal, it just means once we’re done negotiating, we have to go off and work together.
I’m totally not against plastic surgery. I’ve tried Botox before. That’s the only thing that I’ve done.
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.
I’ve never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that’s for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it’s a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I’m driven by that. Everything I’ve done has felt very natural, and it’s happened because it’s happened.
I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.
Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico – but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.
Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.
It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for ‘Monsoon Wedding,’ and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego… And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.
My dad said to me growing up: ‘When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you’re a lucky man.’
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
If an expert says it can’t be done, get another expert.
The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.
We collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizontally in our company, not vertically. Products are horizontal. It takes hardware plus software plus services to make a killer product.
I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.
We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they’re capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don’t care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they’ve done wrong.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.
I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.
Of all our dreams today there is none more important – or so hard to realise – than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, ‘Not my will, but thine be done.’
I think when we build something we love and that others love, then we have done our job.
Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.
As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese – they all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
If you don’t think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD’s and burn them.
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ‘clicks.’
What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
I’ve never done any cross-party stuff. I’ve no interest in sitting down discussing pensions or whatever with Tories.
What’s done to children, they will do to society.
When you’re in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have – at least, I had – vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you’re depressed, because you haven’t done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can’t be John Updike, well, then, you can’t.
I believe that every leader has a right to implement his own policy. But when I see things that are done that are not right – abuse of power, wrong approaches, wrong strategies, making use of foreign consultants, including those discarded by other countries – I feel that I have to have my say.
It’s important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What’s done is done.
I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.
This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
Barcelona is one of the best cities in the world. I love it there. I love Big Sur. It’s stunning and you get a therapeutic experience there. The drive up the coast is one of the most beautiful I’ve ever done. Also, Hong Kong. I could easily live there!
I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
I’ve done plenty of daredeviling – from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
When my father is happy with my music, I know I have done something good, and there is no question of generation gap.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
When all is said and done the only thing you’ll have left is your character.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.
As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!
I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I’m trying to do that.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
I think every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.
You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
I’ve called all sports. I was a radio DJ, club DJ, talk show host, hockey, basketball, football; you name it, I’ve done it.
There are a lot of really fabulous things that get done with digital assets and blockchain technologies to reduce friction, to reduce costs, and enable things that weren’t possible before.
The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today’s machines and what we have so far been able to finish.
What I treasure the most is people coming up to me in the elevator and saying, ‘You really did a great job’: neighbours who congratulate for a job well done or little fans who hug me and say they want to be like me.
I’m not ashamed of anything I’ve ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people.
A lot of people think I must be weird because of the films I’ve done. I get that.
I’m naturally a nice person. I’m not trying to have any problems with people. I’m done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life.
I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.
God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
I haven’t done much voice-over work, but I enjoy it. I’m hoping to do more in the future.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
Just because you miss shots, you can’t doubt yourself. It’s easier said than done.
I think that I’m, like, an introverted extrovert. At the end of the day, when I get done doing hair at the salon or shooting a day of ‘Queer Eye’ or whatever, I definitely want to come home and, like, order pasta and sit with my cat or just one person or no people.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
What is it they want from the man that they didn’t get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he’s done with his work, what’s any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, ‘Why wasn’t that better?’ Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt – I have got to prove myself wrong.
It feels right. But it’s emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you’ve done that long is hard.
Of all the things we have done, the most important – the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation – is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
If you haven’t done something yet, and you want to do it, start now!
We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
Step by step and the thing is done.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.
I have a really strong opponent in Randy Orton. A former multi-time world champion. He’s held just about every title under the sun. And he’s done it all in a major way. He’s basically wreaked havoc and ran roughshod over the WWE for quite some time. Some people might forget that.
Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I’ve read has taught me something.
Success to me means serving a calling higher than yourself that improves the lives of everyone and is done completely in the name of service.
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
Tradition is the great misleader because it’s too easy to follow what has already been done – even though you may think you’re giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.
I have a deadline. I’m glad. I think that will help me get it done.
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial look, but the great gift still has to come from Africa – giving the world a more human face.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
I haven’t seen about half the movies I’ve done. You know, you’ve got to make a living, but some I don’t get a good vibe with.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
A classic man is a distinguished man. He cares about taste and his craft. He’s all about the simple model that I live by – eat, drink, be swanky, and have fun getting the job done. He makes sure that he’s excellent in all things and that he cares about his neighborhood immensely.
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
Before ‘Titanic,’ yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it’s just a bit daft for me.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
I want to be able to look back and say, ‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’ I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I’d like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.
Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.
Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it’s the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.
Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
I’ve done a lot of work to get where I’m at, but I have to keep working.
I don’t get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what’s left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
I am Pisces, with Aries on the ascent. I couldn’t have done all I’ve done in my life if it hadn’t been for Aries.
There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.
I have done my time living on the run. I’m British and I want to come home.
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. It’s unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.
