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Quotes About Undertaking

A lillion miles of journey starts with a foot stamp
~ oladosu feyikogbon
Es gibt nichts Gutes, außer man tut es. (Actions speak louder than words.)
~ Erich Kastner
that a program of this size and importance should be undertaken with FOMC approval,
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
~ Bob Barr
did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were brave to overcome. for this was it a glorious , for this was it an honorable undertaking
~ Mary Shelley
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.
~ Mary Shelley
Are you then so easily turned from your design? Did you not call this a glorious expedition? And wherefore was it glorious? Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror; because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited; because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to brave and overcome. For this was it a glorious, for this was it an honourable undertaking.
~ Mary Shelley
And wherefore was it glorious? Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to brave and overcome. For this was it a glorious, for this was it an honourable undertaking.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
To be inspired is to feel God funnelling into one's work. We always want light from the darkness. We know something is there before we see it. The objective for a writer is to try to get some part of the face of a God on a piece of paper. It is a fearful undertaking going into something profound without knowing what you are looking for. Beauty is incomprehensible. Isn't that what God is? Witnessing the loss of beauty and the enduring effort to restore beauty, isn't this God?
~ Barry Lopez
Telling a joke is like doing a linguistic pirouette. If you fall flat, it means not only that you don't have the wherewithal to do it well but also that you have misjudged your own skill, that you are fool enough to undertake something you can't finish -- and that lack of self-control or self-knowledge is a lack of grace.
~ Eva Hoffman
The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.
~ Bharavi
Entrepreneurship is about doing, not learning to do.
~ Guy Kawasaki
I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.
~ Robyn Davidson
To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.
~ Michelle Huneven, Blame
For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.
~ Kathryn Harrison
the other?" I tried using the new whatchamacallit
~ Max Brooks
If I was going to climb onto an animal eight times my size, I wanted to plan the attempt first.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that maketh the work perfect, and acceptable in the sight of God. All that a man undertaketh and doeth in Faith, he doth in the Spirit of God, which Spirit of God doth co-operate in the work, and then it is acceptable to God.
~ Jakob Bohme
I'm always confident when I sign up for a project that it's going to be good. That's why I sign up for it.
~ Taraji P. Henson
Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
~ Elizabeth Warren
You have done the work of a mere man, the tengol continued, "and not a proper hero. A hero does what no man dares to undertake.
~ Michael Crichton
But from my point of view, such an undertaking is impossible. The mathematics are so self-evident that they don't need to be calculated. It's rather like my asking you whether, on a billion dollars in income, you had to pay tax. You wouldn't need to pull out your calculator to check. You'd know tax was owed. And, similarly, I know overwhelmingly that one cannot successfully duplicate nature in this way, or hope to isolate it.
~ Michael Crichton
All 2,100 miles of the trail, as well as side trails, footbridges, signs, blazes, and shelters, are maintained by volunteers—indeed, the AT is said to be the largest volunteer-run undertaking on the planet.
~ Bill Bryson