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"Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was."
"Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'."
"Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done."
"It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out."
"The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received."
"Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart"
"There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better.""
"If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!"
"Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast."
"Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget."
"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."
"I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me."
"He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence."
"I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company."
"You have to work hard, in order to get anything done."
"The harm done is often difficult to repair."
"I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!"
"But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear that holds men back - fear lest their cherished beliefs should prove delusions, fear lest the institutions by which they live should prove harmful, fear lest they themselves should prove less worthy of respect than they have supposed themselves to be."
"Don't apologize for who you are and what you've done in the past. Be who you are and do what you do."
"Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on"
