Quotes About Projects

My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.

American churches are at the forefront of the burgeoning compassion industry, spending billions on dependency-producing food pantries, clothes closets, service projects, and mission trips that serve mainly themselves and inadvertently turn people into beggars.

just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds;

The beliefs that disturb you, the feelings that threaten you, the projects that unnerve you and the unfoldments of your talents that the insecure part of you is resisting are precisely where you need to go to.

modern psychology warns against addiction, in which the 'dopamine fix' expels the long-term projects of the heart;

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

What is the difference between project management and project leadership? Although there is an elusive line between them, the core difference is that management deals with complexity, whereas leadership deals with change.

When project leaders focus on delivery, they add value to projects. When they focus on planning and control, they tend to add overhead.

The agile value "Delivering Value over Meeting Constraints" provides a focus for rethinking how we measure performance on projects.

The agile value "Delivering Value over Meeting Constraints" provides a focus for rethinking how we measure performance on projects. Although constraints such as cost and time are important, they should be secondary to creating value for customers. All too often, we focus on what is easily measurable and ignore really important characteristics that are harder to quantify. Agile development attempts to change that bias and focus on the most important things, and value is at the top of that list.

As contamination changes world-making projects, mutual worlds—and new directions—may emerge.

In large part, we are what we do, and our identity is closely connected with whatever we're focused on, including our careers, relationships, projects, and hobbies. When we quit any of those things, we have to deal with the prospect of quitting part of our identity. And that is painful.

Even when your owner is Alphabet, you have limited resources of time, money, and attention. What that means is Teller has to identify the projects that aren't going to pan out as quickly as possible. To pursue radical ideas, he has to be a radical loss-cutter. Every dollar they save by getting to no quickly is a dollar they can spend on something that could change the world.

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.

Every project has challenges, and every project has its rewards.

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

I have done films only for the sake of money and sometimes, I have been duped into believing that the film is a sensible project.

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

You know, I've always been very open to any project.