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Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.
There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.
I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.
Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
With the horse I always consider that if I do too much in too little time and I'm not patient, he's gonna shut down and I won't get anything done.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.
As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.
I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists].
When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
Don’t measure busywork. Don’t measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesn’t matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.
I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.
Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .
Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.
Black conservatives have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?
The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.
Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done.
You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.
I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.
Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.
One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better.
Maybe when I'm done being an attorney general I'll go out and do something that will really benefit people's lives and become a USANA distributor.
Speaker [Paul] Ryan made clear that the Republican congress agrees with [Donald Trump], and [building a wall] that`s something that should be done.
I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.
I love puzzles, but when I'm done putting together a puzzle, I feel accomplished, and then I wonder, "What's next?" Then I go start another puzzle.
I found out everybody's different--the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Have I done more for some today ? Than some have done for me ? If a person can answer yes at the end of a day, then that person has had a good day.
It's kind of like when you get married, you kinda go into it wanting to remember everything. And once it's done, you can't remember a single thing.
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.
The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.
Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.
My biggest weakness is steak. I have to be careful not to eat too much of it these days - but I do love it done medium rare, with peppercorn sauce.
I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired by Carlton Cuse and Randall Wallace.
Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.