Done Quotes
11377 Done quotes by 6474 unique authors
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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to…
— Albert Einstein
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I just feel that when all is said and done, I am not insane.
— Steven Morrissey
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In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted.…
— Anne Truitt
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Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the…
— Barbara Wood
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Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How…
— Eugen Herrigel
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Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.
— Romulus Linney
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I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.
— Saul Bellow
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I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're…
— William Stafford
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When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on…
— Bill Roorbach
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The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never…
— Janet Frame
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen…
— Edward Albee
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is…
— Anne Lamott
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Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.
— Deborah Eisenberg
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The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow…
— Lloyd Dobyns
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It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest,…
— Grenville Kleiser
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Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of…
— Lauren Bush
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Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by…
— Robert M. Lindner
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People around you should really have nothin' to say. Me, I'm just proud of the fact that you've done it your way.
— Drake
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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been…
— Horace Porter
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In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement!…
— Holly Near
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Elections have consequences. And I fundamentally believe - this is my personal opinion, I know it's a slightly partisan thing to say - to really…
— Paul Ryan
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The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its…
— Unknown Author
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If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is…
— Laozi
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