Projects famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.
-- Alex Lifeson -
Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.
-- Alex Webb -
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
-- Andy Hertzfeld -
I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
-- Andy Serkis -
Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.
-- Anuj -
You can complete a project by dropping it.
-- Arianna Huffington -
I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.
-- Ava DuVernay -
I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.
-- Benjamin Walker -
In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it
-- Beth Comstock -
Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.
-- Big Pun -
I put projects together. I put people together.
-- Bill Laswell -
I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.
-- Bill Pullman -
I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
-- Bill Wyman -
Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.
-- Bo Derek -
We sell to an affluent demographic, so it is important for us to project a professional image.
-- Brad Gillis -
And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.
-- Bruce Nauman -
Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.
-- Bryan Cranston -
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected
-- Byron Katie -
I am a star because I have always felt so alienated and I project this feeling to others.
-- Candy Darling -
You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.
-- Canibus -
There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well
-- Capers Jones -
I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
-- Carla Gugino -
My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
-- Carter Burwell -
A dream project is anything I do when I'm awake.
-- Charles Fleischer -
With each of those projects I wasnt thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasnt the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.
-- Chester Brown -
The world of entertainment is built for big money. It's not built for small-scale projects that sustain themselves.
-- Chris Gethard -
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
-- Christine Quinn -
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.
-- Christopher Bram -
I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.
-- Claire Danes -
We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop ...
-- Clara Fraser -
[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.
-- Clay Shirky -
I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.
-- Colin Mochrie -
A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.
-- Confucius -
The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.
-- Corey Feldman -
I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
-- Damon Lindelof -
As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."
-- Daniel Clowes -
I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.
-- Danny Strong -
You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.
-- David Allen -
Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.
-- David Gordon Green -
But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science...
-- David Hume -
It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.
-- David Johansen -
Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.
-- David Karp -
I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
-- David Morrissey -
I'm going to have a project-based life rather than a job-based life.
-- David Plotz -
EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.
-- David Talbot -
You just see a good project and want to be involved in it, and thats what Dexter was.
-- David Zayas -
I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
-- Dean Kamen -
The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you...
-- Deepak Chopra -
You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.
-- Denis Waitley -
I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
-- Diana Vreeland -
My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.
-- Diane Keaton -
There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.
-- Dianna Agron -
Many organizations have put off critical upgrades or new projects to make sure ICD-10 was survivable.
-- Dick Taylor -
I've definitely enjoyed myself more on the projects where I've played a good person, rather than on the projects where I've played somebody who is morally compromised.
-- Domhnall Gleeson -
User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.
-- Donald A. Norman -
In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the T E X project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.
-- Donald Knuth -
Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent
-- Donna Tartt -
It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.
-- Donnie Wahlberg -
I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.
-- Donnie Yen -
Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?
-- Doris Day -
Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.
-- Ed Bliss -
Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.
-- Eddie Izzard -
The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.
-- Edouard Glissant -
Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
-- Edwin Land -
You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.
-- Elisha Cuthbert -
I would rather do a project that I've invested so much time to, rather than try to get a part on another show.
-- Emily Kinney -
I've been looking at that in myself lately. Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted.
-- Emma Stone -
I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.
-- Emmanuel Lewis -
I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.
-- Eric Bana -
Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there.
-- Erich Hoeber -
Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?
-- Erik Naggum -
Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
-- Erykah Badu -
Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.
-- Evan Davis -
I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.
-- Evan Glodell -
I lived in a project and...didn't have a good education. But...I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.
-- Evander Holyfield -
I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character.
-- Forest Whitaker -
If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.
-- Frank Dobson -
On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.
-- Frank Gehry -
I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.
-- Frank Ocean -
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
-- Fred Brooks -
The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.
-- Fritz Todt -
We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.
-- Gary Chapman -
Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.
-- Gerard Butler -
Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.
-- Gil Gerard -
Has given me no choice but to advocate for the termination of this project.
-- Greg Nickels -
I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.
-- Greil Marcus -
It was really hard to find another project after my first film.
-- Guillaume Canet -
I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably come about if I found a project that I really felt passionate about.
-- Guy Pearce -
I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.
-- Hedi Slimane -
I never had a “project.†I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes... I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see.
-- Helen Levitt
