Best ten & done Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.”

Done Character House White Written Arms Ten Constitution Chiefs White House Commandments Motto Ten Commandments Pharaohs Minions

Author:Michelle Malkin

“All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.”

Done Thousand Ten Excellence

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“Battles I lose none I make crews run I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one”

Done Use Running Loses Fool Battle Ten Fingers Crew

Author:Big L

“At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.”

Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

“And so I look back on not just the last ten years but everything that I've done as being sort of an ongoing growing continual film school. I mean I don't think I've got to a point where I've achieved anything that feels like, a particular milestone, but there's still a lot more to learn and hopefully a lot more films to make.”

Thinking Feels Years Looks Mean Stills Done School Lasts Film Growing Particular Ten Hopefully Ongoing Milestone Film School

Author:Peter Jackson

“I've always considered myself a failure: I feel I've never done anything wholly right. [...] Everybody will tell you, "Oh no, how can you say that, because ten thousand people clap you on a night?" But part of that is reflex action and part of it is because you're reasonably good. But if you're great, that's a different thing.”

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Author:Ronnie Drew

“The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Congratulations to the Auburn team and coach Malzahn. The piece for us was that we took some first and ten's and could not get a third down conversion. We kept putting the defense on the field. We tackled, we played hard, but offensively we did not execute. We are a work in progress. Certainly a group of men that are committed to fixing things. But frankly we did not get it done today.”

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Author:Les Miles

“If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.”

Ifs Want Done Asks Ten Explanation Want Something Counting

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman; Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman; Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman; Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!”

World Years Long War Done Lasts Lost Causes Women Ten Mark Destructive Betray Ashes Capitol Deceitful Antony

Book:The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes

Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes

“To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.”

Ifs May Done Marriage Example Couple Thousand Ten

Book:The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple

Source: The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple

“I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.”

Ifs Years Done Culture Forget Subjects Particular Involved Ten Tasks Exception Admiration Zero Reserves Forget It Get Involved

Author:Gilles Deleuze

“If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you dont quite know what problems are worth working on.”

Ifs Knows Years Done Problem Today Doors Tomorrow Ten Office Productive Work Done Today And Tomorrow

Author:Richard Hamming

“While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our moral concepts, they have done so more in the last ten or so years than they had before. I have, therefore, often wondered why there has been so little discussion of goodness. In Search of Goodness is not only an exception: it is an admirable one. It is original and provocative, impressive both in its breadth and depth.”

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Author:Raimond Gaita

“The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.”

Years Sometimes Done Reality Ten Twenties Damage Thought Provoking

Author:Chinua Achebe

“The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not.”

Done Moments Running Lost Sin Virtue Talent Thousand Ten Waste Deeds Folly Cherish

Book:Matins and vespers: with hymns and occasional devotional pieces

Source: Matins and vespers: with hymns and occasional devotional pieces

“If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago, I would have done a different movie.”

Ifs Should Years Different Done Principles Saws Subjects Ten Years Ago

Author:Michael Haneke

“Cooking gives you the ability to grow as a person and to give yourself confidence. You can invite people around, you can sit down and eat together and it makes you feel about ten feet tall because you've done it with your own hands.”

People Giving Feels Persons Done Hands Together Grows Ability Feet Ten Down And Cooking Self Confidence Tall Invites

Author:William Katt

“Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game ever created, and if I spoke Japanese I could have played the foreign ones too! Man, I could have built a spaceship in my backyard and flew it to the moon and back, if I wanted.”

Ifs Men Years Done Wanted Games Speak Imagine Moon Ten Built Video Spokes Flew Backyards Spaceships The Moon And Back Rpgs

Author:Kevin James

“Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.”

Years Done Might Christian Wish Thousand Ten Christian Inspirational Thousand Years

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day with bees, which are, when all is said and done, simply a bunch of bugs. But spending my days in close and intimate contact with creatures who are structured so differently from humans, and who get on with life in such a different way, is like being a visitor in an alien but ineffably engaging world.”

Source: A Country Year: Living the Questions

“I traveled the world ten times over doing something I never thought I'd do in a million years. I found myself in Tokyo, Japan. I (was in) a Dell Computer commercial, the first thing I had ever done, and I fell in love with it. I fell in love with the green screens, I fell in love with (everything). The translator was explaining everything to me. It was a passion like I had never felt before. I came back and it took me five years to really accept that that was okay.”

World Years Firsts Done Passion Found Felt Accepting Millions Five Ten Computer Okay Green Screens Five Years Japan Traveled Explaining Translators Tokyo Dell

Author:Drew Waters

“Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.”

Book Done Reading Painting Ten Eating Sitting Chairs Cents Sitting In A Chair

Author:Susan Rothenberg

“I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.”

Thinking Should Years Littles Sometimes Done Moments Wish Grows Bits Five One Day Ten Little Bit Let Me Evolve Live In The Moment

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Full House was a show that was done for ten-year-olds. The critics hated it. They said terrible, terrible things about it. But it should have been reviewed by ten-year-olds. That's who it was made for. They loved it. And if they loved it, great. Why the hell does a fifty-year-old guy working at a big newspaper have to tell me I'm a piece of crap?”

“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.”

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Author:John Donahoe

“I took a correspondence course with a guy at Ohio University. He gave me ten exercises, and one of them resulted in the story "Bactine." It pleased me a lot more than anything else I'd ever done, so I kept messing around and by the time I got to Ohio State I'd written maybe eight stories.”

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Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“What I've done for the last ten years is develop high profile entertainment properties for animation, so it's kind of funny to be able to create my own book to already know how I'd want to develop it for animation and live action.”

Knows Want Years Kind Book Done Able Action Lasts My Own Know How Ten Property Entertainment Animation Profile High Profile

Author:Eric Wight

“But the great thing about shows now is since we've been doing (Comedy Death Ray), they have lightened up on their booking policies a bit more and are booking somebody who isn't famous and who hasn't been around ten years. It's great to see people who've done our show - the first big show they've ever done - now they can play around town.”

People Years Firsts Done Play Shows Bigs Bits Comedy Policy Ten Towns Great Things Rays

Author:Scott Aukerman

“The music director, Stephen Oremus, was telling me: "I hope you've done your work." We only have ten days rehearsal. The music is no joke. My solo singing is not that hard. But the stuff I have as part of the choir or as a "Dead Guest" in the second-half... I'm singing some really incredible chorus stuff that I haven't done in a long time. It's extremely difficult.”

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Author:Max von Essen

“I wanted to lose weight when it was my time to lose weight, not because someone's calling me out for it. I've been called the Fat Kardashian Sister for the past ten years. But I could have gone and gotten gastric [bypass surgery] or done liposuction or whatever and I did not feel the need to do that, and I didn't think - I sincerely didn't think anything was "wrong with me."”

Thinking Needs Feels Years Done Wanted Past Loses Gone Calling Ten Weight Fats My Time Surgery Sincerely Lose Weight Bypass Gastric

Author:Khloe Kardashian

“Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.”

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Author:Barbara Mikulski

“Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had Tibetan students in exile take their classes in English after the age of ten so that they will know more about the outside world. But one of the great things he's done is to bring all the Tibetan groups together in exile, as perhaps they couldn't have been when they weren't in exile and they weren't under such pressure.”

Knows World Has Beens Made Done Age Together Opportunity Class Groups Students Ten Pressure Great Things Exile Monk Curriculum Outside World Tibetan Lama Tibet New Opportunity Dalai

Author:Pico Iyer

“I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.”

People Thinking Want Needs Book Hard Done Remember Pay Ten Publishers Undone

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“[My mother] was the oldest of two sisters and two brothers, and she grew up with her brothers, who were about her age. She grew up, to the age of ten, like a wild colt, and then all of a sudden that was over. They had forced on her her 'woman's destiny' by saying, 'This isn't done, this isn't good, this isn't worthy of a lady.'”

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Author:Indira Gandhi

“Of course, one of the most disturbing features is the fact that while we have had roughly a ten year pause in the arms race where a lot of good work was done, this has now come to an end. For what we are seeing at the present time are new developments in anti-missile weaponry, drones, and so on.”

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Author:Paul Virilio

“We agree with that goal [to secure our border] and will be working with [Donald Trump] to finance on construction of the physical barrier, including the wall on the southern border. The law is already on the books. I voted for it, like, ten years ago, but nothing has gotten done and now we have a president who actually wants to secure the border and we are all in favor of doing that.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“I have little interest in a surgeon who says, "I learned that when I was in medical school. Why should I revisit it?" or who says, "I've done that operation the same way for ten years. Don't bother me with new approaches." I see teaching in the same way.”

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Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“When I do research, I have done - 90 percent of my time is the research, the other ten percent is the writing. So I don't have to face a blank piece of paper. I can look at this as a quote that I have from somewhere.”

Writing Looks I Can Done Faces Pieces Ten Paper Research Percent My Time Blank

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.”

I Can Done Literature Gone Air Minutes Tomorrow Ten Concerned Yesterday Fifteen Reporters Tangible Agitate

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on.”

Years Done Jobs Creation Ten Focused Texas Governors Job Creation

Author:Rick Perry

“Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.”

Thinking Done Play Wish My Own Creativity Thousand Ten Drummer Playing Drums

Author:Buddy Rich

“Some people think it's because '24' was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months prior to 9/11, and we'd already done ten episodes.”

People Thinking Made Done Shows Happened Months Ten Six Productions Episodes Six Months

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.”

Ifs Wells Book Done Three Lost Months Reader Amount Ten Pages Tales Length Three Months

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

Persons Done Running Work Chance Sleep Half Ten Leaving Clock Insomnia Undone Other Half One Half

Book:Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

“Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work ten lifetimes to make up such a sum. Always supposing that it wasn't one of a kind. Panic was no longer merely rearing. It was thundering through her at full throttle. There was only one thing to be done, she realized. The mature, responsible, adult thing to do. Hide the evidence.”

Ifs Kind Done Half One Thing Ten Evidence Adults Responsible Lifetime Locals Things To Do Shops Mature Panic Outlets Supposing One Of A Kind Supposing That Throttle

Author:Alexandra Ivy

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