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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• There are a lot of things that got me into working with photos. The main thing is that I saw both what was being said and not being said with photos in the newspapers... I found out how you can fool people with photos, really fool them... You can lie and tell the truth by putting the wrong title or wrong captions under them, and that's roughly what was being done.

  John Heartfield

  Lying, People, Titles

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• My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

  Miranda July

  Jobs, Ideas, Risk

  "Miranda July Exclusive Interview THE FUTURE". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 4, 2011.

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• Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.

  David Byrne

  Artist, Exotic, Done

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Exhibitionism, Done

  "Random Thoughts". www.jewishworldreview.com. October 17, 2005.

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• Nothing which consists of corporeal matter is absolutely light, but that is comparatively lighter which is rarer, either by its own nature, or by accidental heat. And it is not to be thought that light bodies are escaping to the surface of the universe while they are carried upwards, or that they are not attracted by the earth. They are attracted, but in a less degree, and so are driven outwards by the heavy bodies; which being done, they stop, and are kept by the earth in their own place.

  Johannes Kepler

  Light, Escaping, Done

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or process, or whatever is "the issue." It induces confusion in the sense that there is failure to see what is "really" being experienced, or being done, or going on, and failure to distinguish or discriminate the actual issues. This entails the substitution of false for true constructions of what is being experienced, being done (praxis), or going on (process), and the substitution of false issues for the actual issues.

  R. D. Laing

  Clouds, Issues, Confusion

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• I'm very, very thirsty for knowledge. Just because I'm good at something and have found success doesn't mean I'm done. I'm not even close to being done. I don't know if I ever will be done learning.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Mean, Done, Thirsty

  "Best Actress Nominee Jennifer Lawrence Heats Up Winter’s Bone". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2011.

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• Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try at condemning fossil fuels. [...] Even if the world warms as much as the consensus expects, the net harm still looks small alongside the real harm now being done by preventable causes; and if it does warm this much, it will be because more people are rich enough to afford to do something about it.

  Matt Ridley

  Real, Ocean, Pressure Groups

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• Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.

  George Eliot

  Mirrors, Pulse, Done

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.792, George Eliot

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• The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat that we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige, and concentrate our united efforts toward solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America.

  Malcolm X

  Hurt, Thinking, Differences

  "Malcolm X Speaks". Book by George Breitman, p. 21, 1965.

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• What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.

  Desmond Tutu

  Roots, Impact, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think there's no question that everything possible is being done to stop Donald Trump and you're seeing a case study in how hard it is to be outsider and the double standard of the national media, particularly if you're a conservative outsider.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Media, Done

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

  Alan Moore

  Names, Evil, Done

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• There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.

  Abelardo Morell

  Photography, Forever, Done

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 2, 2003.

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• Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Done, Stills

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2010). “The Word for World is Forest”, p.106, Macmillan

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• Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.

  Will Rogers

  Wall, Business, Real

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.

  Rachel Carson

  Believe, Mind, Trying

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.379, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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