Being Done Quotes - Page 2

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

  Propertius

  Money, Men, Gold

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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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• Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

  Aaron Levie

  Done, Way, Assumption

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2013

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• I felt a particular attachment, naturally, to the Superman character and really dug deep, but at the same time, I am a passionate fan, be it Star Wars, be it the entire Marvel catalog, be it the DC catalog, or the original thinking at Pixar. I'm a fan first, so I'm always curious to see the way people express themselves and how it's being done.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Stars, War, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Journalism is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting. I was a judge in some award contest recently, and the stuff that is being done by major newspapers, and local, regional papers around the country, is great. Newspapers play an amazing role in our society, and I still think they are important. I'm sorry newspaper circulation is down. Ultimately, the importance of newspapers can't be replaced.

  Seymour Hersh

  Country, Sorry, Thinking

  Source: www.progressive.org

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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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• Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

  Chris Ware

  Believe, Done, Wells

  "Q&A: Comix Stars Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware and Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez". Interview with Sean T. Collins, www.rollingstone.com. September 26, 2012.

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• You can't actually hire and fire people inside of an open source community. Which means that getting people to work together is much more along the lines of making sure that people have the tools they need both to get their work done but also to know what is being done by other people and how to take that to their employer and tell that story to their employer and to show this is why the community is good and this is why we're working on these sort of things because it helps us over here.

  John Dickinson

  Mean, Fire, People

  Source: blogs.cisco.com

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• The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Differences, People

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• When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.

  Patrick Duffy

  Son, College, Done

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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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• 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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• Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing animals and is stopped physically, whether with the use of force, or is killed, I certainly wouldn't lose sleep over that idea.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Sleep, Animal, Ideas

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• Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.

  James Forten

  Tyrants, America, Long

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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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• 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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• Here's the problem - carbon dioxide doesn't contribute to smog and isn't a health threat. All of this is being done because some people believe carbon dioxide is causing global warming, and that preventing carbon dioxide from entering the air is the only answer. Never mind that there is still an ongoing scientific debate about global warming itself, and that some respected climate scientists believe that methane is a better target, California legislators have locked their sites on carbon dioxide.

  Kenneth P. Green

  Believe, California, Air

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• Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.

  Laurel Clark

  Ocean, Weather, Space

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• If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.

  Paul Lockhart

  Crush, Jobs, Children

  "A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form". Book by Paul Lockhart, 2009.

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• Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

  Peter Sotos

  Art, Thinking, Done

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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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• Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

  Barry Diller

  Twenties, Done

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• Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Procrastination, Done, Politics

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1983). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now).

  Peter Thiel

  Careers, Organization, Advancement

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.10, Crown Business

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• The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the air we breathe - chemicals that have the known effect of reducing fertility and shortening lifespan.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Drinking, Air, Medicine

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