Top 100 Project Project Quotes
#1. I should say that generally I'm a pretty happy person, but as soon as I'm done with a project, I'm usually not happy at all. I feel a little empty and strange. I begin to think about how I can get better, stretch more artistically and intellectually. My biggest worry is getting complacent.
Philipp Meyer
#2. I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did it and my instinct was right, in the beginning. Even though it was a good story, the guy still didn't really know what he was doing.
Ray Liotta
#3. Rejoice when other scientists do not believe what you know to be true. It will give you extra time to work on it in peace. When they start claiming that they have discovered it before you, look for a new project.
Efraim Racker
#4. What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care ... and that's what I sort of adopted to my own.
Agnes Obel
#5. Should Hillary Clinton run for president, voters who ignore the difference between the image she seeks to project and the reality will have only themselves to blame if her presidency turns into a disaster.
Ronald Kessler
#6. No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.
Shelley Duvall
#7. Producing is very much like running a business, where you find the project, you find the different people involved, you put the elements together, and you make sure they all work together well.
Catherine Bell
#8. I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#9. Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
Cameron Crowe
#10. Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.
Helen Mirren
#11. One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.
Steven Pressfield
#12. I was open to anything. That doesn't mean I would do anything, it just means I was open to anything. I've met for dramas, single camera comedy, multi-camera comedy. I take each script as an individual project.
Skylar Astin
#13. Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
D. B. Weiss
#14. There is no such thing as lack of time, only unclear priorities and lack of motivation. It is better to abandon a project than to work on it half-heartedly for a protracted period of time.
Gudjon Bergmann
#15. Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-on-demand print run of a dozen or so copies, shows publishers and editors a completed piece of work and that you can follow through on a project.
Jeff Lemire
#16. Langley would never complete his newspaper project. I knew that and I'm sure he knew it as well. It was a crazy foolish hand-rubbing scheme that kept his mind in the mood he liked to be in.
E.L. Doctorow
#17. I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they work and what they do, and what they do often is more progressive. I would like to see a lot of kids of different ages, maybe even some adults, work together on a project.
Seymour Papert
#18. I'm proud of Larry Sanders and proud of every single person who went on that journey. It's a very special show to me, and I've learned a lot of lessons from it. I need to find something where I can learn some more lessons, and then I'll do that project.
Garry Shandling
#19. In acting, you can't do things for the money. You've got to do a project because you like it.
Charity Shea
#20. For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to say they are wasted.
Robert X. Cringely
#21. The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once the project has become operative in the basic institutions and relations, it tends to become exclusive and to determine the development of the society as a whole.
Herbert Marcuse
#22. I think that 'Station to Station' is a nomadic project not only in a literal sense, as it's traveling by train from place to place. Some of these places are New York City or Los Angeles, but some of these places are rather off-the-grid places.
Doug Aitken
#23. I don't isolate too much or make the project my god. This helps a lot with negative ideation.
Jesse Michaels
#24. They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.
Alice Cooper
#25. When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will survive.
Neil Gaiman
#26. After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.
Spike Jonze
#27. The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world.
Vladimir Putin
#28. My mind is always on whatever next project I'm working on.
Lois Lowry
#29. The Landscape becomes reflective, human and thinks itself though me. I make it an
object, let it project itself and endure within my painting....I become the subjective
consciousness of the landscape, and my painting becomes its objective consciousness.
Cezanne
#30. If having true love and love that is expressive and free outside of work affects a project where you have to be restrained and in denial and fixed and closed off. This doesn't mean you go out and just destroy your love outside of your life and kind of mirror your movie.
Heath Ledger
#31. As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.
Bill Gates
#32. When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.'
Timothy Noah
#33. To move Nigeria forward, we must define our interest in the Nigeria project
Okey Ndibe
#34. If you want a more democratic EU, communication has to be among its core tasks. There should be a legal foundation for it: Fifty years after the founding of the European project, communication belongs in the constitution.
Margot Wallstrom
#35. So after that I had a new rule. If I'm hired by the plant engineer, I only go over his head if I'm in project failure mode. If the project is going to fail, then I'll go over his head. But as long as the project is going to come out, I never go over his head. Now, that's a rule I still follow today.
Robert Greene
#37. I found the project to be a bit quiet (that is, dull), which may have led to the manuscript's current confabulation - a pseudo autobiography in which the speaker portrays herself as a fifteen-year-old girl/cheetah amalgam.
Julie Schumacher
#38. I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
Christine Quinn
#39. Life is a beautiful and challenging project! Together we can make it a wonderful experience...
Roberto Rodriguez Esteves
#40. I find the best things are done for yourself or start as a small project and become a big thing.
Tom Lenk
#41. How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
Fred Brooks
#42. I lived in a project and ... didn't have a good education. But ... I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.
Evander Holyfield
#43. 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.
Halsey
#44. I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.
Janet Napolitano
#45. One of the quirkier cognitive disorders to which software project management is prone.
Charles Stross
#46. Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
Werner Herzog
#47. The philosophy of project-based homeschooling - this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers - is dependent upon the interest and the enthusiastic participation and leadership of the learners themselves, the children.
Lori McWilliam Pickert
#48. I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.
Debra Wilson
#49. Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it.
Charlotte Church
#50. During the summer of 1963 between my junior and senior years, I began a research project on hypothermia in the Department of Surgery with Sidney Wolfson. I quickly became fascinated by the project and continued working on it throughout my senior year.
Stanley B. Prusiner
#51. I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will.
Scott Adkins
#52. If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.
Jennifer Carpenter
#53. Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another.
Alex Abreu
#54. Whenever I audition for something, if I get excited about the project I'm totally committed to it from that point on. But it can also be a long process, so when I eventually get given the part it's then that I realise that I've actually got to do it and here comes the work!
Matthew Kane
#55. You have to believe in its principles. Anything is possible, as long as it's for the good of the world. Make the exception. Live exceptionally. And if you can't do that, maybe we should consider whether you're right for the project. Think about it, then let's talk tomorrow.
Amy Tan
#56. In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.
Douglas Wilson
#57. Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
David McCullough
#58. 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.
Lewis Black
#59. About Soul Punk:
There was this moment where I worried FOB really wasn't coming back so I tried to make a hit record out of an art project.
Patrick Stump
#60. Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.
Flann O'Brien
#61. Oftentimes when I do a project I do get influenced by the wardrobe. I certainly learned a lot from Mad Men and from Janie (Bryant) in particular. She's just so fabulous.
Christina Hendricks
#62. Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.
Craig T. Nelson
#63. I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.
Penelope Ann Miller
#64. The way I listen to music goes in waves depending on a lot of things. How busy I am, if I'm in between composition projects, if I'm starting a new project. So, the only time I listen to the radio for music is with my daughter's when I'm driving them to school, or driving them somewhere.
Tod Machover
#65. There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found that it was becoming serious in and on its own. By the end, it's not very funny at all. I think, now, that part of the power of the book is that the jokes are kind of sparkly distractions.
Moshe Kasher
#66. I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.
Lawrence Wright
#67. some of the best ideas I've had in my life and in my work, they often occurred in the spaces "in between" my commitments. They materialized when I least expected, during a moment of downtime, and typically when I was doing something in no way related to the project.
Todd Henry
#68. Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
Robert M. Pirsig
#69. I'm not Waylon Jennings, but I do a fair imitation of him, and a few other country greats, like Willie Nelson. It would be great to sink my teeth into a project where I could play a country singer. I'm like an old cowboy.
Todd Lowe
#70. My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.
Nolan Bushnell
#71. She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. She never would have imagined that her day job would be the calmest and least cluttered part of her life.
Emily St. John Mandel
#72. When the children were little, I'd fly into L.A. for a specific work project, but then I'd leave again, and when I was home, I wouldn't even read a script.
Andie MacDowell
#73. You have to work everyday at being the best you can be. It's a project that is never-ending.
J. Junior Reynolds II
#74. By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication from design through to fabrication and assembly.
Greg Lynn
#75. I don't know if my agent will be upset but I quoted him saying that he would jump out a window if I turn down another project.
Erika Christensen
#76. We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.
Rand Paul
#77. Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.
Ryan Holmes
#78. What you produce is not necessarily always sacred, I realized, just because you think it's sacred. What is sacred is the time that you spend working on the project, and what that time does to expand your imagination, and what that expanded imagination does to transform your life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#79. Position yourself as a
center of influence, the one
who knows the movers and
shakers. People will
respond to that, and you'll
soon become what you
project.
Bob Burg
#80. Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing is crucial.
Giovanna Cau
#81. An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.
Aravind Adiga
#82. Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic.
Jim Steinmeyer
#83. It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.
Samuel Wilson
#84. It was really hard to find another project after my first film.
Guillaume Canet
#85. The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.
Richard Flanagan
#86. Children raised with respect and inner direction tend to play well in groups, at times quite peacefully, each involved in her own project or involved with the other chidren.
Magda Gerber
#87. I've learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#88. In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity.
Philip-Lorca DiCorcia
#89. My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.
Diane Keaton
#90. I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
Stephen Fry
#91. I have no idea. I get involved because I think there's value in the project and because I love the character that is presented to me. I love the opportunity to examine a character, and to have him examine me, live inside me and move my hands. I love that. It's irresistible. It's a drug.
Donald Sutherland
#92. When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'
Jeff Lindsay
#93. That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.
Al Jarreau
#94. In many ways it's like a home improvement project: You don't know what you're getting into. You uncover problems you didn't know you had. You have to make multiple calls to your friend, the Carpenter, for help. And it usually takes longer than you think it will take.
Barb Raveling
#95. I think what happens is that you do the project first, then you think about what it's about. Years later, you figure out why you've done things.
Steven Klein
#96. Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.
Stephanie Mills
#97. Is saying yes to this project, activity, or commitment going to better me or my family? Do I really want to do this? A friend once said to me, "If it isn't a heck yes, then it's a no.
Jessica N. Turner
#98. I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I'm back for more.
Mike Mills
#99. It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
Daniel Libeskind
#100. One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national government wants to justify ... Exclusive reliance on benefit-cost analysis has been one of the greatest threats to wise decisions in water development.
Gilbert F. White
