Quotes on Done

The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination with reality; he will look with contempt on his own unimportance, and wonder to what purpose he came into the world; he will repine that he shall leave behind him no evidence of his having been, that he has added nothing to the system of life, but has glided from youth to age among the crowd, without any effort for distinction.

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.

You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From where? They all come from unconsciousness. Man lives asleep, man lives mechanically. That mechanism has to be broken, man has to be re-done. That is the religious revolution that has not been tried.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.

Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.