“I do a lot. I don't like to sit still. I am pretty spontaneous. I like to cook a lot. I like to eat. I like to workout, surf, read, write, and create. I am always working on a couple of projects that I always have and need to put more time into.” NeedsWritingStillsCoupleProjectsCooksMore TimeSpontaneousWorkoutSurfAlways WorkingI Am Pretty Author:Michael B. Jordan
“See who else is interested and join other people's projects that have already started that you like. You don't always have to reinvent the wheel and start your own thing.” PeopleLike YouProjectsWheels Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.” IfsCountryProjectsFlightAviationSweat Author:Howard Hughes
“When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor. So I went to architecture school in NYC, because I was crazy about buildings. Then I began to realize that I got more excited about Vogue coming out each month than I was about my projects.” WantedSchoolYoungActorsStarsRealizingCrazyBuildingMonthsProjectsExcitedArchitectureI RealizedComing OutMovie StarVogueNycEach MonthArchitecture School Author:Tom Ford
“It's getting harder to make decisions to work for the sake of working. Like everybody, I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply. Sometimes something like The Tourist comes up and it's just fun, but it's not as easy to find projects that I have to do. I have to be home and I have to do other things, but I don't have to work as much.” TryingMeanSometimesHomeFunEasyChallengesDecisionProjectsHarderSakeCome UpTourists Author:Angelina Jolie
“Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow.” IfsKnowsWritingHas BeensSaidGrowsDifficultGrowthChallengesProjectsBritishUncomfortableRight Place Author:Geoff Thompson
“You realize true magic of cinema when you put the right people together, at the right time, with the right kind of project, where they're not worried about their salary, they're not worried about their caravan.” PeopleKindTogetherRealizingMagicProjectsWorriedCinemaRight TimeSalaryCaravans Author:Jean-Marc Barr
“I don't think I've ever tried to be something that I'm not. People do that for you. People try to pigeonhole you. People tried typecasting me, before they even saw me in anything else. I've never understood that. I was like, "Why don't you wait until my next project, before you start telling my what my career is going to look like, for the next 10 years?" I've never let it set me back because I always knew the world would try to do that for me, anyway.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingYearsLooksNextWaitingCareersSawsProjectsUnderstoodTypecasting Author:Chris Colfer
“When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.” WorldMindChildrenRememberSongSeriousProjectsSingingAlbumsWrapsChristmas DaySinging Songs Author:Mary J. Blige
“I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh or Kathryn Bigelow that didn't really need me - and I've produced both of them. It's fun to sit around with them and be collegial, but they don't need me. They can make the film without me. I make my own stuff. There are tons and tons of other things I'm interested in that have nothing to do with movies or are documentary projects.” PeopleWantNeedsFilmFunStuffMy OwnProduceProjectsFilmmakerBoresDocumentariesMoguls Author:James Cameron
“Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.” WorldWayRealityCultureLinesSpaceFictionBandOceanProjectsScience FictionPopsFascinatedPublishingPop CultureExpeditionsScience LoveDeep OceanFiction And Reality Author:James Cameron
“I feel very blessed to have had the opportunities that have already come. I want to pursue it as long as I can find characters that resonate with me and projects that resonate with me. I feel very comfortable in that world.” WorldWantFeelsLongI CanCharacterOpportunityComfortableProjectsBlessedPursue Author:Sharlto Copley
“When you have a passion for something the hours, days, months and years that it takes to complete the project becomes secondary because you're working on something that you love.” YearsPassionHoursMonthsProjects Author:One9
“I don't begrudge anyone else for anything, but to me, I think the fans deserve to have a studio put money behind their product because when the fans put money into a project and it makes any sort of money, it goes back to the studio. I think that's a little shady.” ThinkingLittlesBehindsFansProductsProjectsDeserveStudiosShady Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino
“Every project for me is a risk that I bet on. I believe my senses, and hopefully it will be successful. But sometimes you make it, and sometimes you fail.” BelieveSometimesI BelieveSuccessfulFailingRiskProjectsSensesHopefullyBeing Successful Author:Stephen Chow
“I don't have 4 or 5 projects in front of me and an offer on every one saying 'what one would you like to do?' Things come along one at a time.” FrontsOffersProjects Author:Nathan Fillion
“I have jobs that I've preferred more than others simply because I've gotten to meet and make friends with great people. I've pulled at least one very close friend from every project I've done.” PeopleDoneJobsProjectsGreat PeopleClose Friends Author:Nathan Fillion
“I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.” KindActorsNamesCrazyMaterialsDirectorsProjectsDraws Author:Javier Bardem
“The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order.” HumansArtistOrderClearEconomicModernEffectsActivityProjectsEnlightenmentConceptsBuiltLaborAimEndureSakeProductionsPostsCyclesConsumptionConsumerismHuman SocietyOverconsumptionHuman ActivityUnendingCraftsmanObsolescenceEconomic Order Author:Lesslie Newbigin
“You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It has been like in the past, it is like that in the present, and I hope it will be in the future. Here is a great imaginative project, to build a machine with twice the speed and twice the height of any existing machine in the world. We all went into it with our eyes wide open. We were conscious of the dangers that were lurking in the unknown. We did not know what fate was going to hold out for us in the future.” KnowsWorldHas BeensEyePastSpiritCausesRaceFateDangerProjectsConsciousMachinesSafetyWideDuesSpeedAccidentsHeightAviationImaginativeAdventurousLurkingPioneeringEyes Wide OpenPioneering Spirit Author:John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara
“With each project, whether it's an album or a mixtape, I try to learn more in the process.” TryingProcessProjectsAlbumsMixtapes Author:Yo Gotti
“I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.” WritingBookReadingFourRight NowProjects Author:Colette Freedman
“I'm always reading. Here's where an ebook reader really comes into its own. When I travel, it allows me to carry a huge chunk of my library with me. Usually, when I am writing one project, I am researching the next or beginning to pull together the material for the book after that.” WritingBookTogetherReadingNextMaterialsHugeReaderProjectsLibraryChunks Author:Michael Scott
“People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer.” PeopleDifferentDreamFantasyFansProjectsPrejudiceMarchJealousDisagreeDrummer Author:Hugh Hefner
“For me, the most gratifying projects are ones that have the potential to bring people together - to overcome differences among various groups, and to spark dialogue.” PeopleTogetherDifferencesGroupsProjectsOvercomingVariousDialogueSparks Author:Nancy Kates
“What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm concentrating on a project, that's what means the most to me.” YearsMeanProjectsConcentratingThrough The Years Author:Steve Martin
“I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life.” IfsFeelsDoneWholeMomentsFunSoundProjectsDeterminedStrikesWhole LifeWorthwhile Author:Steve Martin
“50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.” NamesProjectsMetaphorActiveCentsGangstersBeing CoolForts Author:Curtis Jackson
“When I used to go on the Wikipedia page, and I haven't gone on the page in a while, there used to be some guy who was doing my page and he would say that he was my cousin and I was going to be doing projects with him. I don't know who this person is and I don't have a cousin by this name and this person keeps saying that they're doing projects with me. It's so weird.” KnowsPersonsUsedGuyNamesGoneHavensGoes OnProjectsPagesUsed To BeCousinWikipediaMy Cousin Author:Demetri Martin
“I wake up every day and think about what I am to other people. What I am to the people I employ, who depend on me to wake up and do my job that day and keep this career going? I think about what I am to the kids who listen to my music and all the other people involved in this project.” PeopleThinkingKidsJobsCareersDependsInvolvedProjectsWake Up Author:Halsey
“In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in self-confidence, that in many cases they line themselves up fairly squarely behind the imperial project and that then creates a big vacuum in which the Islamists become the dominant power because they are the only ones then who are seen as resisting.” WorldSelfBigsForceLinesBehindsCasesProjectsSelf ConfidenceIslamicSecularLackingDominantVacuumsResistingUnsureIslamists Author:Tariq Ali
“The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually. Romantic relationships can do this because they are interactions in which you come to see those parts of yourself that are constructive, healthy and creative. You see them because you project them onto someone else.” PurposeGrowsCan DoCreativeHealthyProjectsInteractionConstructiveRomantic Relationship Author:Gary Zukav
“When someone new comes into your life and suddenly you feel more alive, more beautiful, more sexual, more creative, more desirable and more engaged; you feel that this new person is the key to those feelings. But actually, you have these qualities too. What you don't see and don't acknowledge in yourself, you project onto someone else. Carl Jung explored this very well. He called it projection.” FeelsWellsPersonsFeelingsBeautifulQualityCreativeAliveKeysProjectsAcknowledgeEngagedDesirableProjectionJung Author:Gary Zukav
“Designing is always on the mind of a designer, and as I was saying it's a sort of digestive process, so I usually keep it to myself unless I'm collaborating with someone because explaining all the things that are going on in your head can be quite exhausting, especially in the early stages of a project.” MindProcessStageDesignProjectsDesignerExplainingExhaustingCollaborating Author:Christian Louboutin
“As I matured, I've always had the dream of one day either having my own clothing line or owning a fashion magazine. Most of my thesis' and projects in school were fashion and advertising based.” DreamSchoolLinesMy OwnFashionOne DayProjectsAdvertisingMagazinesClothingsThesisMaturedFashion MagazinesClothing Line Author:Ashley Purdy
“The tough decisions that a president has to make in the Oval Office are in no way related to the capability of a person to do well on television. On the other hand, the capability of a person to project favorably on television enhances that person's odds of being elected so he can serve in the Oval Office. So you can't ignore the talents, one, to be very effective on television, and on the other hand, to be very effective as an operating president.” WayWellsPersonsHandsPresidentDecisionTalentTelevisionOfficeProjectsToughRelatedCapabilityOddsOvalTough Decisions Author:Gerald R. Ford
“I was never really cut out to be a student, I prefer to actually work and get a project done and learn that way- but I have a huge respect for good teachers and even enjoy teaching...I am a conundrum!” WayDoneEnjoyTeacherCuttingTeachingStudentsHugeProjectsGood TeacherConundrums Author:Holly Golightly
“Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.” IfsWayMeanWholeLanguageRoomsRocksObjectsFitPaperProjectsFunctionMalesGenderFeminineMasculineVienna Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I made a body of work, which was like trying to make movies on a wall and was made up of all different images and materials. I had the aspiration to make movies because I thought that was the cycle. I had this insane egomaniac idea that I could make movies because I made these gigantic art projects.” TryingArtMadeIdeasDifferentBodyMaterialsWallProjectsInsaneAspirationCyclesEgomaniacsArt Projects Author:Robert Longo
“When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created a ravishing cocktail dress out of cornhusks. It was really amazing.” LooksProjectsSeasonsDressesMemorableEpisodesCocktailsRunwayAustinReally AmazingMost MemorableProject RunwayCocktail Dresses Author:Tim Gunn
“Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.” I CanInterestProjectsStudios Book:Al Pacino Source: Al Pacino
“In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.” HeartDoeSelfFormOrderUnderstandingBlackStruggleFeminismProjectsFemaleDeterminationRevolutionaryCollectivesSelf DeterminationVehicleDominationCritique Author:Bell Hooks
“From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.” PeopleTryingFirstsFactsWantedUsedMy OwnCareersTeamStudentsInvolvedProjectsAdvantageEntrepreneurExcitedMissionsCoreMagazinesEnthusiasmSecureInterviewsFedsNew ThingsVentureRestlessGet InvolvedPublicityInexperienceTrying New ThingsNew ProjectsNewcomers Author:Richard Branson
“Every band that I've known that has done side projects or things like that - I don't respect them anymore.” DoneSidesKnownBandProjects Author:James Hetfield
“Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of food - we've been educated by fabulous books, like Fast Food Nation and documentaries like Food Inc. But despite these and other great projects that shine a critical light on the topic, every year the food industry spends literally tens of millions of dollars to shape the public conversation about our food system.” ThinkingYearsBookLightCareNationsMillionsIndustryShapesConversationProjectsImpactDollarsShiningEnvironmentalCriticalDespiteEducatedTopicsDocumentariesFabulousWho CaresFast FoodFood IndustryEnvironmental ImpactFast Food Nation Author:Anna Lappe
“I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.” ThinkingShouldWritingChildrenFormSpaceProjectsShould HaveOur ChildrenLeavingBreathingYour ChildrenNecks Author:Erica Jong
“Are we so desperate for entertainment that we will fall for a Trickless magician?? Saw a woman in half. Pull a rabbit out of a hat. Do something! What tricks does this guy have? "I'm in a box...and I ain't gonna eat.". "I'm in a box... and I ain't gonna eat!!" That ain't no trick! That's called living in the projects!” DoeHumorFunnyGuyFallHalfSawsProjectsBoxesEntertainmentTricksDesperateHatsThis GuyMagicianRabbits Author:Chris Rock
“In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; the true enigma is how this project of emancipation went so wrong.” KindProjectsTragedyWorkersRadicalEmancipationUprisingEnigmaStalinism Author:Slavoj Žižek
“The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.” ThinkingI CanLyingProjectsSurpriseProfessionArchitectureRandomness Author:Rem Koolhaas