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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• 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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• 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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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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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• If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Hurt, Looks, Done

  "Feminism unmodified: discourses on life and law". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1987.

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• I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Thinking, Expression

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• Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being prevented subverts the consciousness and the behavior of man, not even a catastrophe will bring about the change.".

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Freedom, Men, Done

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2012). “The 2012 Collection”, p.66, Penguin

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• I think it's a complete injustice, the way it's (the trial) being done

  Dionne Warwick

  Thinking, Done, Trials

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• But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Pain, Complaining

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.92, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.

  Ann Romney

  Country, Mother, Wall

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• There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Home, Thinking, People

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• I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

  Alan Rickman

  Expectations, Done, Defying

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• Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Liberty, Citizens

  H. L. MENCKEN (1924). “PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES”

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• Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individua lly and collectively-fo r their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global scene.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Names, Effort, Ignorant

  "Who armed Iraq?" by Paul Rockwell, www.sfgate.com. March 2, 2003.

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• A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.

  William Feather

  Leadership, Jobs, Mean

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• One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day’s work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day’s work?'

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Good Day, Fighting, Thinking

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• If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I would not have the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Doubt, Done, Authority

  Radio Interview in 1960. "South-East Asia: A Political Profile". Book by Damien Kingsbury, p. 337, 2001.

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• There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

  Hal Price

  Needs, New Work, Done

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• Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done? Reports are now written in four tenses: past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense. Watch for novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmer), defined by the past imperfect, the present insufficient, and the future absolutely perfect.

  Amrom Harry Katz

  Real, Future, Reading

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• The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the internet user base.

  Paul Vixie

  Law, Rights, Government

  NANOG mailing list, 2004.

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• Some of us are lucky enough to fall in love once or twice but the luckiest of us are those who find that someone they simply can't live without and have the pleasure of falling in love with them day in and day out for the rest of their lives. Relationships aren't about simply falling in love once and being done with it, they're about loving someone until the end of your days and growing that love endlessly.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Falling In Love, Romantic Love, Loving Someone

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