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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• 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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• 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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• I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

  Allen Iverson

  Motivational, Basketball, Believe

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

  Propertius

  Money, Men, Gold

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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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• 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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• 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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• Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.

  Harvey Keitel

  People, Way, Interviews

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• The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.

  Ralph Steadman

  Betrayal, People, Done

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• Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Done, Midsummer Night's Dream

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.165

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• To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.

  Anthony Trollope

  Country, Sleep, Looks

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.2852, e-artnow

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• Since I’m presuming you don’t mean you finally bought him a leash, let me say simply that there is a big difference between allowing an animal to ravage you and allowing yourself to be ravaged. One is common. The other is art. It is planned. Crafted, even. Only capable of being done by a master.

  Richelle Mead

  Art, Mean, Animal

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Thorn Queen”, p.38, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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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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• 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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• That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Expectations, Humanity

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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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• If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

  Rachel Maddow

  Accountability, Secret, Done

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• PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pain, Mind, Done

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.743, Library of America

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