"Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself."
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"Change is not made without inconvenience."
"The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man."
"The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project"
"Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation."
"The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys."
"You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected"
"I stay busy and projects look for me. I aint goin nowhere no time soon and that's how I continue to evolve. By stayin relevant and makin hits."
"I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going."
"Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public."
"You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself."
"Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent."
"Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond."
"Every project has challenges, and every project has its rewards."
"A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project."
"I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up."
"I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself."
"I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats."
"I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others."
"Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times"
"When you're working on a project, make sure at least one person knows what they are doing."