“See... What I felt they should have done, for our first public works project, is build a giant wall... across the entire border of Canada. Because that's where the cold air comes from.” ShouldFirstsDoneFeltAirWallColdProjectsShould HaveBordersGiantsCanadaCold Air Author:Lewis Black
“Projects get sent to you, and you read them, and there's something for you there. There's something to be done.” DoneProjects Author:Sylvain White
“If we're honest with ourselves, our user experience hadn't kept up with the competition. In the first ten years eBay created the market. Now we're positioning ourselves to innovate off our core platform. This is not a project. We're never done.” IfsYearsFirstsDoneHonestTenProjectsCompetitionCoreUsersPlatformsUser ExperienceEbay Author:John Donahoe
“There is no excuse for a billion dollar industry to have somebody who's pushing papers on an administrative level - which is still very important in terms of getting projects done - it's imbalanced and completely illogical and example of how badly this art form has been rapped... for them niggas to have health care benefits but for themselves to share in no part to that? It's very telling about the climate of the music industry.” Has BeensArtStillsImportantDoneCareFormTermLevelsShareExampleIndustryPaperBenefitsProjectsDollarsClimateExcuseBillionsHealth CarePushingPapersMusic IndustryNo ExcusesIllogicalAdministrative Author:Immortal Technique
“Albom with Trent Willmon is the first project that I haven't had to scrap money together for. The is the first time I've used any outside songs at all; until now it's only been stuff that I've written. This is also the first album of mine that's had any co-writes on it, as well. It's a big step, coming off of anything we've ever done before.” WritingFirstsWellsDoneBigsTogetherUsedSongStuffStepsWrittenHavensMinesProjectsFirst TimeAlbumsScrap Author:Curtis Grimes
“I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'” ThinkingWantYearsI CanDoneWaitingQualityWifeMonthsSixProjectsMeetingsSevenMy WifePoolLoadSix MonthsSeven YearsMonths Of The Year Author:Eddie Marsan
“When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away and forget about it, and I've done that with novels I've started and worked on for a long time. It's an option I need in order to write freely.” NeedsFeelsWritingLongBookDoneWholeMightOrderForgetNovelProjectsLong TimeQuestioning Author:Daniel Kehlmann
“You do hear from people that the things that you have done or projects you have worked on have made an impact on people's lives. I think it is important to take that seriously and to recognise that you are being followed and watched by some degree in what you do and you should use that. It's a real blessing to be able to make an impact on people's lives and to use that for the bettering of them.” PeopleThinkingShouldMadeImportantRealDoneUseAbleBlessingDegreesProjectsImpactRecognise Author:Bridgit Mendler
“Over time as an actor, your life with a project can be so short lived because you come on, you do it, and then you're done. You have no control, no say, and all of a sudden there's all of this distance between the work you've put into something and the product as you see it appear on-screen.” DoneActorsProductsProjectsDistanceScreensShort Lived Author:Maggie Siff
“That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project” PeopleThinkingWorldCountryDoneWholeSocialProjectsConscienceDecidedCreditActiveImpressionWhole WorldCracksSlumsEleanorDescendingAnnouncingDisadvantagedOzarks Author:William A. Rusher
“I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.” PeopleThinkingPersonsHas BeensDoneAbleFilmCareersNiceFansProjectsPursueFortunate Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“I have done whole projects with Scoop Deville, I like to basically work with a single producer. I always just worked on a bunch of songs, and then put them together, whether it was an EP or another project. None of them were mixtapes where I was rapping over other peoples beats.” DoneWholeTogetherSongProjectsBeatsRapBunchProducersMixtapes Author:Young De
“I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer's hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer's work is never really done online.” ThinkingWayEndsDoneWholeHandsTechnologyPiecesCenturyDesignReaderInternetProjectsSolutionsCustomersDesignerOnline20th CenturyEquationsPostersInternet TechnologyBrochures Author:Khoi Vinh
“The fact of the matter is: when you're doing a project, you try to make it better every moment. And a lot of people get frustrated. But I surrounded myself with a good team of people and I'm really proud of the work we've all done. All I can say is - I've learned this in my business - don't let the process frustrate you; focus on the end. Because the end is pretty wonderful. Just fight it out.” PeopleTryingI CanEndsMatterDoneMomentsFactsFightingProcessFocusWonderfulTeamProudProjectsI've LearnedFrustratedGood Team Author:Jon Taffer
“I think the feeling that we're going to work together again usually starts to come up before the first project's even done. The Black Keys and I have already talked about starting on something new.” ThinkingFirstsDoneFeelingsTogetherBlackKeysProjectsStartingCome UpWorking TogetherSomething NewGoing To WorkTogether AgainBlack Keys Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I definitely am the kind of person that fluctuates up and down. I work really hard for a certain project and then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm done.'” KindPersonsHardDoneCertainProjectsUp And Down Author:Julianne Hough
“I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as my editions have tried to balance the familiar with the new, the commercial with the scholarly, so too I have to admit that I don't want to do editing for the sake of it, and some possible projects would be of uncertain value to me.” WantDoneWould BeValuesBalanceProjectsSakeFamiliarFortunateUncertainEditingPrivilegedEditorialsScholarly Author:Oliver Harris
“I think it's very important to remember that so much of the work that gets done between countries is not done at the level of presidents, but is done within various agencies, whether it's law enforcement or economic ministries. And when they establish relationships and systems of communications and shared projects and shared visions, those structures continue even after any particular president is gone. It builds trust and understanding between countries that are critically important.” ThinkingImportantCountryDoneRememberLawUnderstandingPresidentLevelsVisionGoneEconomicParticularCommunicationProjectsStructureVariousAgencyMinistryLaw EnforcementEnforcementShared Vision Author:Barack Obama
“The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in Chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into Strawberry Creek in Berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.” PeopleYearsFirstsDoneShowsWaitingBlackParticularProjectsTheaterTeenagerChicagoSustainingStrawberriesCreeksBerkeley Author:Robert Hass
“I kind of feel connected to all places at the moment, and I've done very interesting projects in both places (Israel and America).” FeelsKindDoneMomentsAmericaInterestingProjectsIsraelConnectedVery Interesting Author:Meital Dohan
“Now that The Thorn and the Blossom has come out and I'm done with my doctoral degree (yes, I'm finally Dr. Goss), I'm turning to longer projects.” DoneDegreesProjectsDrs Author:Theodora Goss
“It's probably the most personal project [The Fourth Phase] I've done, which changed the dynamic a little bit.” LittlesDoneBitsChangedProjectsLittle BitFourthPhases Author:Travis Rice
“Sometimes I will give some very vague directions to the designer that I'm working with on a particular project and they'll come back and surprise me with something that really shows a lot of their own 'hand' in it. Other times I'll have a really clear idea about how I want it done and I'll draw it out pretty precisely and say 'make it look exactly like this' and it will be something where it looks like I can say it was 'fully my design'. The work can also range between the two.” WantGivingLooksI CanTwoIdeasSometimesDoneShowsHandsClearDesignParticularProjectsDrawsSurpriseRangeDesignerVagueSurprise Me Author:Michael Bierut
“While researching the project [The Fourth Phase] I stumbled across this amazing research by a scientist called Dr Gerard Pollack who had done studies on what he called a 'fourth phase' of water.” DoneWaterStudyProjectsResearchScientistFourthPhasesDrs Author:Travis Rice
“It's always lovely to be part of a project that, on a creative level, is done for all the right reasons.” ReasonDoneLevelsCreativeProjectsLovely Author:Elaine Cassidy
“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
“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
“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
“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
“My own opinion is that the suburban project is over. We are done. We don't know it yet. For about five years or so the people who deliver all that crap - developers, realtors, various money people - have kicked back waiting for the system to get going again, to resume all their accustomed behavior. They wait in vain. They just haven't figured out that we face a new disposition of things.” PeopleKnowsYearsDoneFacesWaitingMy OwnOpinionFiveHavensBehaviorProjectsVariousVainFive YearsCrapDispositionAccustomedResumesDevelopersRealtors Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I write constantly, so it flows from one project to the next, and I would edit everything endlessly if I had the chance. I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.” IfsWayWritingI CanDoneNextChanceKnowingProjectsFlowBlindExperimentsOngoingEditsAlleys Author:Grant Morrison