Quotes About Project

You're a natural at this kind of disorganized, illogical project.

I'm a decent engineer with an analytical mind. Using my problem-solving skills to whack my husband became a challenge. A fun challenge, in fact. I wanted to put him away so I wouldn't have to pay the price for murdering him. What an exciting challenge for an engineer! Spousal murder as a work project. My juices started flowing.

I identify this heart with what I have called elementary experience; that is, it is something that tends to indicate totally the original impetus with which the human being reaches out to reality, seeking to become one with it. He does this by fulfilling a project that dictates to reality itself the ideal image that stimulates him from within.

Identifico in questo cuore ciò che ho chiamato esperienza elementare: qualcosa cioè che tende a indicare compiutamente l'impeto originale con cui l'essere umano si protende sulla realtà, cercando di immedesimarsi con essa, attraverso la realizzazione di un progetto, che alla realtà stessa detti l'immagine ideale che lo stimola dal di dentro.

When people say their goal in life is to be happy they are telling you they are miserable. Thinking of happiness as a project, they look for fulfillment at some future time. The present slips by, and anxiety creeps in. (…) so they turn to philosophy, and nowadays therapy, which offer relief from their unease.

taking stock of the likely consequences of the Guise dynastic project, decided to draw back.

The police? George heard his mother asking at the door. You must have the wrong apartment. George started for the kitchen before he realized that there was nowhere to go. The apartments in the housing project had only one door.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.

any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.

When all the mythologies have been set aside, we can see that, children or no children, the joke of evolution is that it is a teleology without a point, that we, like all animals, are a project that issues in nothing.

The joke of evolution is that it is a teleology without a point, that we, like all animals, are a project that issues in nothing. But is there really such a thing as nothing, as nothingness? I don't know. I know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.

Bede, who would doubtless have furnished us with a detailed explanation of such a massive engineering project,

simple matter of physics, then, made the Central Arizona Project even worse, in an economic sense, than the Colorado River Storage Project. But politics demanded that it be built, and in the 1960s, Arizona had power.

That project, the State Water Project, more than anything else, is the symbol of California's immense wealth, determination, and grandiose vision -- a demonstration that it can take its rightful place in the company of nations rather than mere states. It has also offered one of the country's foremost examples of socialism for the rich.

Can you believe it? I had a project that was sure to win the silver trophy, not to mention that Miss Green would probably get voted best science teacher, and what happens? She won't even listen to me. I also had another problem. Miss Green had told me not to come back until I had washed off the green paint. Except it wasn't green paint, and I didn't know how to change myself back.

Can you believe it? I had a project that was sure to win the silver trophy, not to mention Miss Green would probably get voted best science teacher, and what happens? She won't even listen to me. I also had another problem. Miss Green had told me not to come back until I had washed off the green paint. Except it wasn't green paint, and I didn't know how to change myself back.

In 1929 the firm received their largest project to date, the one that might have won the day for them on the Empire State project—they built the Bank of Manhattan Building at 40 Wall Street, which was pitted against Chrysler in the race for the world's tallest. The foundations were started in May 1928, before the site was entirely cleared; less than a year later, the bank moved in. The seventy-story, 927-foot-high building was completed in eleven months.

I am surprised at how often researchers fail to draft a title early in the development of their projects. In my opinion, the working or draft title becomes a major road sign in research—a tangible idea that the researcher can keep refocusing on and changing as the project goes on (see Glesne & Peshkin, 1992).

I love kit. Every project I have ever undertaken has required the purchasing of all the best kit I can afford and think of. For many people -- especially, dare I say it, men -- kit is all you need.

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

Perhaps the solution is to have a little project every day. If there's no reason for you to get up in the morning it really doesn't matter if you are alive or dead.

The mistakes pointed out the problems with the project, pushing the maker to improve upon them.

Identity liberalism has ceased being a political project and has morphed into an evangelical one. The difference is this: evangelism is about speaking truth to power. Politics is about seizing power to defend the truth.