Project Quotes

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth. (Epictetus)
The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time. View quote
Fred Brooks
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. View quote
George Soros
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present. View quote
Marina Abramovic
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile. View quote
Walter Chrysler
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. View quote
Napoleon Hill
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project” of realization among others. But once the project has become operative in the basic institutions and relations, it tends to become exclusive and to determine the development of the society as a whole. (Herbert Marcuse)
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. View quote
Fred Brooks
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. View quote
Adam Smith
Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive. View quote
Robert Carlyle
Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa. View quote
John Bradshaw
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. View quote
Andy Hertzfeld
After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not. View quote
Bill Budge
I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project. View quote
Lasse Hallstrom
The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society. View quote
Mike Lowry
My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project. View quote
Rick Danko
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. (Stanley Tucci)
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do. View quote
Trevor Nunn
When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials. View quote
Yoshio Taniguchi
What saved the economy, and the New Deal was the enormous public-works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs. View quote
Paul Krugman
As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome! View quote
Tom Peters