I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it’s done in handwriting.
I don’t think there’s any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
If it’s a very emotional scene, you’re kind of relieved when you’ve done it, kind of spent. And there are times when you can be rattled, certain characters if they’re hyper, that can carry over, the residue of that. But I try to leave it on the set.
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
What hasn’t Barbie been? I don’t think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
I loved being a part of ‘Celebrity MasterChef.’ The process was scary and I was so out of my comfort zone but I’ve learnt so much. Doing something I’d never done before put me in the position of the celebs on ‘Strictly’ and because of that experience, I think i’ll be a better teacher because of it.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.
I go into the gym and do 75 pullups, 75 dips, 150 squats, 150 pushups, and then 20 minutes of ab work. Done. It takes an hour; I’m in and out. I sweat the whole time.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.
I know I haven’t always done things the right way. I’m just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.
I never dwell on what happened. You can’t change it. Move forward. Don’t waste your energy on being angry at something that somebody did six months ago or a year ago. It’s over. Done. Move forward.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.
Wherever I see people doing something the way it’s always been done, the way it’s ‘supposed’ to be done, following the same old trends, well, that’s just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.
Committee – a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.
My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it’s done.
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
One thing I’ve done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya – the Papunya Artists – performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They’d never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
When I perform as a solo, I think a lot about what I always wanted to do but have not done yet.
No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.
When you’ve done a show that’s as successful as ‘Lovejoy’ was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped ‘Lovejoy’ by not doing any television for four years.
Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I’d done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
We all have done something unethical.
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.
If you don’t think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD’s and burn them.
I’ve done enough running from monsters. It’s time to do some chasing.
I believe it matters how you treat people. I believe in Heaven. I don’t believe that this is it, and then we’re done. I have a lovely relationship with God, although when I’ve lost someone or I’ve seen a sick child, I’ve had conversations with Him in which I’ve had to ask, ‘How can that be right?’
I don’t get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
You have to understand that every negotiation isn’t about taking everything off the table. It’s cliche, but you have to try and make sure the other side feels good and you feel good. Because in my business, when I make a deal, it just means once we’re done negotiating, we have to go off and work together.
I have undergone plastic surgery. I got my breasts done. Big deal.
Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it’s being done to him or by him.
He’s an absolute icon. Everything he brings, how he carries himself. Never having trouble with the media, never done anything wrong. He’s a superstar for a reason. He’s LeBron James for a reason.
I couldn’t do no yodelin’, so I turned to howlin’. And it’s done me just fine.
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
I suppose if I’d got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.
I have no regrets, because I’ve done everything I could to the best of my ability.
