Projects Quotes

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

Best, Business, Wisdom

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Barry Goldwater

Death, Fight, Impossible

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.
Donald Rumsfeld

Time, Good, Yourself

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon

Business, Judge, Young

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.
Kim Kardashian

Love, Working, Stories

I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.
Paris Hilton

Travel, Person, Working

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
Marilyn vos Savant

Society, Individual, Needs

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.
Jeff Bridges

Work, Wife, Try

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.
Jeff Bridges

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
Gertrude Stein

Future, True, Whole

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
Jay-Z

Live, Deep, Country

I like involved projects.
Tori Amos

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
LeBron James

Lonely, Night, Kids

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.
Daniel Radcliffe

Different, Stuff, Director

Small projects need much more help than great.
Dante Alighieri

Great, Help, Small

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.
John Hawkes

Life, Change, Good

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
Francesca Annis

Giving, Working, Support

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.
Maria Sharapova

Life, Time, Great

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.
David Duchovny

Passion, Difficult, Times

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Small, Often, Found

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.
Jon Meacham

Others, Put, Social

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.
John Malkovich

Act, Direct, Produce

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.
Jessica Simpson

Different, Makes, Hands

The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.
Elisha Cuthbert

True, Pretty, Try

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.
Arthur Erickson

Human, May, Cannot

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
Ai Weiwei

Work, Politics, Society

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.
George H. W. Bush

Work, Time, Give

I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.
Ryan Gosling

Trying, Working, Put

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Great, Friends, Play

I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.
Christine Taylor

Life, Great, Frustrated

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