"I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done."
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"It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
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"Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness."
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"If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it."
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"What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."
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"You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try."
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"One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion."
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"The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it."
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"What's done can't be undone."
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"Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead."
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"The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind."
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"Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr"
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"When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself."
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"I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets."
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"Without a purpose, nothing should be done."
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"It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself. And that can be done at any level."
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"Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done."
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"All great things are done for their own sake."
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"Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest."
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"I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty."
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