"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
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"The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done."
"But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future."
"I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know."
"Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done."
"Chopin was the first piano composer who knew exactly how to make piano sound reach fullness, radiance and grandness. What to regard and what, by all means, to avoid. Chopin was keenly aware of the overtones and he did take care of them so artfully."
"There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done."
"Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm."
"It's all easier said than done, and it isn't even easy to say."
"Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done."
"There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless."
"I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?"
"There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done."
"I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done."
"And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride."
"Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done."
"Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?"
"The last few years on ‘South Park’ we have done some of the riskiest things we have ever done, knowing it could kill the show, but we also know that’s what we have to do."
"I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done."
"That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer."