“I think being a doctor is really hard, and it's really this thankless, never-ending job. It's not even that you get done with a project. There are always sick people.” PeopleThinkingHardDoneJobsProjectsDoctorsSickNever EndingThankless Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I feel guilty if I'm not reading books, but I read scripts of movies or things that I know I'm committed to that I'm going to do the project. I tell myself, "I'm going to read this script like six times," and I only read it the initial time.” IfsKnowsFeelsBookReadingSixProjectsScriptsCommittedGuiltyReading BooksInitials Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Donald Trump has a bunch of people who have been able to find the money they need for projects that they wanted to do and succeed at them and show a profit at the same time, and everybody involved wins.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensShowsAbleWantedWinningTrumpInvolvedSucceedProjectsProfitBunch Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We are living in a world where major states and large geopolitical projects have to prove their competitive edge. It is clear, as well, that with regard to the intensifying American-Chinese confrontation and the inert power of a united Europe, Russia has to make up its mind - because it is losing ground as an independent center of power.” WorldMindWellsStatesUnitedClearProveProjectsMajorsLosingEuropeRegardIndependentEdgesRussiaChineseConfrontationGeopolitical Author:Garry Kasparov
“I actually started the whole project some years ago with a live debut at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The focus was mainly on my favorite period of Billie Holiday, which was the late-50s Verve recordings, with essentially a small version of the Count Basie band.” YearsWholeFocusPeriodsBandProjectsLateYears AgoMy FavoriteVersionsHolidayDebutBrussels Author:Jose James
“I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of the very recognizable vocal things that she does, which are great. But I wanted to, with this project, start the conversation again about her as a radical feminist, as a civil rights activist - taking a stance. And also just [her] being a non-conformist.” PeopleWayFeelsDoeStillsWantedArtistVoiceFocusRightsConversationProjectsFeministCivil RightsRadicalHolidayActivistAppreciatedVocalStanceConformistRadical FeministNon Conformist Author:Jose James
“You always have to speak good about the projects you do and you have to see the beauty in them. Sometimes you see them and you're happy with things, or maybe the process was nice and you enjoyed it, and you were happy with that. But when everything gathers - you liked the scripts from the very beginning, the directors, your friends - but then you see the result and you like it - it's beautiful.” SometimesBeautifulSpeakProcessResultsNiceDirectorsProjectsScriptsEnjoyedYou Like It Author:Miguel Angel Silvestre
“Making a movie about one group of people isolates the larger majority. That's what I require of the projects that I'm involved with. I would not ever make a movie strictly for Latinos.” PeopleGroupsInvolvedProjectsMajorityLatino Author:George Lopez
“The stage is the opposite: you are talking loud so you can project to the back row and you know the whole play. In a movie, you are scene-to-scene; you only know the purpose of that scene. On the stage, that is artistic science. It is real, it is loving, it is truthfully you. It is two different formulas to make two different art pieces, but it is all about truth.” KnowsArtTwoDifferentRealPlayWholePurposeTalkingPiecesStageSceneProjectsOppositesArtisticLoudFormulas Author:Gary Busey
“My ultimate goal is actually to direct and develop projects. I don't want them to be big projects with a lot of special effects because that's not really what appeals to me.” WantBigsGoalSpecialEffectsProjectsDirectUltimateAppealsUltimate GoalSpecial Effects Author:Dave Bautista
“Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.” WayWritingEndsDoneGoneProjects Author:Danny Strong
“Expect to get more than you expected [from Crash Landing project]. Expect more than a mixtape.” ProjectsExpectedCrashLandingMixtapes Author:Kid Ink
“[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.” PeopleYearsDifficultNovelTenProjectsJaneAustenBack Burner Author:Whit Stillman
“It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWritingYearsKindSometimesCharacterFormForceChangedPersonalityFitProjectsAdmireOperaTouringAdmirableLarger Than LifeTrilogiesInventiveness Author:Philip Glass
“I think that distance is good for some people for certain projects. I mean this is sort of a dynamic question. Some projects require more distance than others, some don't require it at all. Sometimes you need it and sometimes you don't.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMeanSometimesCertainProjectsDistance Author:Junot Diaz
“I grew up in the projects with four older brothers. And there were tough, macho gangsters, drug dealers, killers, and thugs all in my neighborhood. And they were afraid of my mother. So, yeah, I know some strong women.” KnowsMotherStrongFourBrotherGrewDrugProjectsGrew UpToughYeahNeighborhoodKillersStrong WomenDealerGangstersThugMachoOlder BrotherDrug Dealers Author:Michael Che
“I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.” WantKindDreamAbilityProjectsPhrasesRemarkable Author:Christine Baranski
“If your career is not predicated on just your physical beauty, you're able to project a sophistication. You can take sophisticated to your grave. You can be that worldly woman, that woman who looks beautiful dressed up.” IfsLooksAbleBeautifulCareersProjectsGravesSophisticatedWorldlyDressed UpSophisticationPhysical Beauty Author:Christine Baranski
“Too often, the perspectives on housing come from journalists, politicians and property experts, with a focus on the extreme ends of the market. Through the FOURWALLS Film Project, we want to get an accurate picture of the London housing situation through the eyes of the people that live there, and promote discussion around it.” PeopleWantEndsEyeFilmSituationFocusPerspectivePoliticianProjectsPropertyExtremesLondonJournalistDiscussionExpertsAccurateHousingThrough The Eyes Author:David Lammy
“Basically, I thought for a very long time that making music and art projects, that that was just something that I did, and real life was separate. And I'm starting to realize that the things that I do, making music and art and photography and all that, it's not just something that I do. It's who I am. So I don't think I'll ever be able to stop. It's like that curse that you live with, this thing that you love but you also hate it at the same time. It brings you a lot of joy but also a lot of heartbreak.” ThinkingLongArtRealAbleJoyHateRealizingProjectsPhotographyLong TimeStartingReal LifeWho I AmCurseArt Projects Author:Frank Iero
“I think the fun thing about doing a project under your own name is that literally anything could be a follow up, it doesn't necessarily need to be a record, it could be film related, it could be book related, it could be anything.” ThinkingNeedsBookFilmNamesFunRecordsProjectsRelatedFun ThingsFollow Up Author:Frank Iero
“I believe that if we do have a commonality of beliefs we should clarify them, we should strengthen their coherence and we should also develop common projects that produce a lived community of relationships.” IfsShouldBelieveBeliefI BelieveCommunityCommonProduceProjectsCoherenceCommonality Author:Murray Bookchin
“I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.” IfsKnowsWorldWritingWellsSaidI CanPlayPlayerProjectsGuitarIndividualitySingersGuitar Player Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Suppose you are drinking a cup of tea. When you hold your cup, you may like to breathe in, to bring your mind back to your body, and you become fully present. And when you are truly there, something else is also there - life, represented by the cup of tea. In that moment you are real, and the cup of tea is real. You are not lost in the past, in the future, in your projects, in your worries. You are free from all of these afflictions. And in that state of being free, you enjoy your tea. That is the moment of happiness, and of peace.” MindMayRealStatesMomentsBodyPastLostEnjoyWorryProjectsDrinkingBreatheYour BodyCupsTeaThat MomentAfflictionBeing FreeCups Of TeaReal YouMoments Of Happiness Author:Nhat Hanh
“The construction of social housing and the attempt to support families seeking to buy their own homes are all projects from the 1960s and '70s. It all sounds old-fashioned, but it is actually completely modern.” HomeSocialSoundSupportModernProjectsSeekingConstructionOld FashionedHousing1960s Author:Martin Schulz
“It turns out that we determine who our leaders are by unconscious undertones we all project with our voices - and of which we're completely unaware.” TurnsVoiceLeaderProjectsDetermineUnconscious Author:Nick Morgan
“One of the coolest things about being an actor is growing, and changing with everything, and never making the same decision twice because you've learned so much from the last project. I guess that's like in life. You keep moving through, and you hopefully learn from your mistakes and just get better and better all the time.” LastsMovingActorsDecisionMistakeGrowingProjectsHopefullyGet BetterKeep MovingLearn From Your Mistakes Author:Emma Stone
“I worked on a number of projects that were used by millions of people and that also served as inspiration to what we now call "crowd-sourcing."” PeopleInspirationUsedNumbersMillionsProjectsCrowds Author:Luis von Ahn
“With The Help, I knew folks involved in the project peripherally. I wanted to audition for Hilly Holbrook and part of the initial feedback was: "No, Bryce is too nice." That's part of the reason why I really love auditions as well - you get to try out a character and try out different versions of a character.” TryingWellsDifferentReasonCharacterHelpingWantedNiceInvolvedProjectsFolksVersionsReason WhyAuditionsFeedbackInitialsToo Nice Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“Usually, being a volunteer organizer essentially means that I am part of a core base of individuals, that when we start a project - whether it be a big thing like the inauguration or whether it be something that's a longer-term, let's say, educational campaign about a foreign policy issue or a domestic issue - we sit together and we divvy up, and oftentimes it's relevant to different things we do.” MeanDifferentBigsTogetherIndividualTermIssuesPolicyProjectsEducationalCampaignsCoreDifferent ThingsRelevantForeign PolicyVolunteerBig ThingsOrganizerInauguration Author:Eugene Puryear
“I met Kaz in the mid 1980s when we invited him and other artists to the Ojai Foundation with Thich Nhat Hanh. I felt an instant connection with him, and since that time we have collaborated on many projects and have become good friends and allies in the work of nonviolence.” ArtistFeltMetsProjectsConnectionsFoundationInstantAlliesNonviolenceGood FriendInvitedThich Nhat HanhInstant Connection Author:Joan Halifax
“To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations that we Western collaborators then refine with him.” KindSeemsProcessProjectsWesternFascinatingOfferingTranslationsCollaborators Author:Joan Halifax
“In churches, we see that getting people to show up for a prayer meeting is a lot more difficult than a concert or service project or just about anything else. So we were thinking, we're stepping into some unknown territory here that could be as profitable, or it could be a box-office flop, but there was a rightness about it. And so this whole idea of the war room being like a spiritual warfare room, a place of prayer where you get alone with God and you're making your decisions and you're dealing with your issues first in prayer.” PeopleThinkingFirstsIdeasWarWholeShowsSpiritualDifficultChurchPrayerDecisionRoomsIssuesOfficeProjectsMeetingsBoxesConcertsTerritoryWarfareProfitableSpiritual WarfareBox OfficePrayer MeetingAlone With God Author:Stephen Kendrick
“We grew up in a praying home [with Alex Kendrick], we saw incredible answers to prayer in our parents' lives, they grew up in praying homes, our father launched a Christian school with nothing, basically he had some people that believed in the project but they had very little resources, and we watched our parents deal with those issues first in prayer, and then when they went out knocking on doors they saw amazing doors answered and resources come in.” PeopleFirstsLittlesHomeSchoolChristianFatherParentPrayerAnswersDealsIssuesSawsDoorsGrewPrayingProjectsGrew UpResourcesIncrediblesOur FatherAlexKnockingAnswers To PrayerChristian SchoolsKnocking On Doors Author:Stephen Kendrick
“While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got ubiquitous. So it helped kernel development, but there were still pain points.” StillsUsePainSourceDevelopmentProjectsCoreKernelOpen Source Author:Linus Torvalds
“One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.” WorldNeedsHardDoneLastsAmericaEnergyNationsChallengesEconomyExampleBuildingProjectsIraqDecadesExperimentsAround The WorldDevelopingAfghanistanNeglectedEducation SystemNation Building Author:Barack Obama
“We've got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas.” HomeStrongEconomyMilitaryProjectsMilitary Power Author:Barack Obama
“Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.” YearsMindHeartTwoBookMaterialsMy HeartProjectsResearchTwo YearsTake Me Author:Nikki Giovanni
“The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but on self-denial and sacrifice, and on this such an America is going to be credible to the world.” PeopleWorldSelfAmericaPresidentSacrificeProjectsDenialIdealismIndulgenceCredibleSelf-denialSelf Indulgence Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“That was actually Lloyd Phillips who was a Kiwi film producer in L.A. And it was about Gorgeous George, not Haystacks Calhoun. I was in a couple of Lloyd's films and got approached to write the story. People don't realize it, but Gorgeous George had this flamboyant, camp stage persona that had a tremendous influence on other celebrities, like Elton John, Liberace, Elvis Presley, and Mohammed Ali, who all wanted to establish their own outlandish stage personas. The project died because Gorgeous George's wife refused to give up the rights.” PeopleGivingWritingStoriesWantedFilmRealizingWifeRightsInfluenceStageCoupleGiving UpProjectsDiedProducersCampsGorgeousPersonaFlamboyantOutlandishStory PeopleKiwiMohammed Ali Author:John Ratzenberger
“As John Maynard Keynes taught us in the 1930s, in such situations, government is the only entity with both the motive and the ability to boost total spending by enough to put people back to work. As it happens there are long lists of important public projects that cry out to be done.” PeopleLongImportantDoneEnoughGovernmentHappensAbilitySituationCryTaughtProjectsSpendingListsMotiveEntityTaught UsBoost1930sBack To WorkKeynes Author:Robert H. Frank
“Howard Zinn ran what is called the Zinn Education Project. It is a radical, radical bunch of insane lunatic leftists. And there is a project at the Zinn Educational Project: A People's History of Muslims in the United States - What School Textbooks and the Media Miss. And this program is teaching your high school student, juror junior high or middle school student.” PeopleStatesSchoolUnitedUnited StatesTeachingMiddleMediaMissingStudentsProjectsHigh SchoolProgramEducationalBunchInsaneRadicalRanJuniorsLunaticTextbooksMiddle SchoolLeftistsJunior HighHigh School StudentsJurors Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.” FeelsHumansEnoughHuman BeingsProjectsNationalityInterpreting Author:Karla Souza
“My friends from the University of Texas. I've had the same friends for over a decade. My brother films a lot; he usually edits my Workout Wednesdays. All the people who work on my projects are amazing.” PeopleFilmBrotherProjectsMy FriendsUniversityDecadesMy BrotherTexasWorkoutEditsWednesdayUniversity Of Texas Author:Zach Anner
“It is still important that every project I do I do something real, that feels true to me.” FeelsStillsImportantRealProjectsSomething Real Author:Garance Dore
“I'm an Ivy League-educated lawyer, so you'd think the world wouldn't mess with me, right? But I've been paid $10,000 less than a less qualified man in the same role. I've had men I've worked with grab my leg or rub my back in ways that have made me feel uncomfortable. I've been taken off projects because I was pregnant, even though my pregnancies have been both been healthy and didn't impact my work at all.” ThinkingMenWorldWayFeelsHas BeensMadeRolesTakenHealthyProjectsPaidImpactLegsLawyerEducatedMessLeagueUncomfortablePregnancyPregnantQualifiedIvyWere PregnantIvy LeagueMess With Me Author:Jane Park
“I still had the same frustration with trying to play [Edward Cullen], the entire way through, right up until the last shot. It's a strange part because, on the one hand, a lot of the audience projects their idea of Edward[Cullen] onto him. It doesn't matter what he is. They want him to be a certain way. And then, my instincts were to try and play it and to try to find the fallibility in him and the weaknesses.” WayWantTryingStillsIdeasMatterPlayHandsLastsCertainAudienceStrangeProjectsWeaknessShotsInstinctFrustrationWant HimFallibility Author:Robert Pattinson
“The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.” YearsKindLittlesReasonGovernmentInterestSimpleFailingSourceCostWasteBenefitsProjectsTestsVotePressureCourtHeavyCampaignsSupremeOptimisticPrimariesContributionSupreme CourtLegislatorsBeing OptimisticContributorsPrimary SourceCampaign Contributions Author:Robert H. Frank
“My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're standing for the dignity of all people, and that you're actually standing for the underdog in the red states and the blue states. I think it's more effective when you're anti-racism and anti-sexism and anti-homophobia and that is the centerpiece for a project to uplift all humanity, and frankly to defend and uplift the children of all species.” PeopleIfsThinkingChildrenStatesHumanityFightingPositionProjectsRacismRedStandingDignityBlueSpeciesUpliftingSexismHomophobiaUnderdogAnti RacismCenterpieces Author:Van Jones
“Embedded reputations - that's one of the most daunting dynamics that can happen. You start as a secretary, or assistant, and you have that plastered on your forehead. My advice is that you have to do something - change companies, get a degree, or go to a training program. Or ask to be on a very hard assignment or project that no one else wants. You can do it, but it doesn't happen without true exertion.” WantHardHappensAsksCan DoCompanyAdviceDegreesProjectsTrainingProgramReputationSecretaryYou Can Do ItForeheadsAssistantsAssignmentsEmbeddedExertionDynamicsTraining Programs Author:Suzy Welch