#project

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive. ↗

— Danny Strong

#actually #around #certain #certain point #forward

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great. ↗

— Danny Strong

#genre #goal #great #i #i think

I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#billion #came #decision #his #i

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#extreme #get #i #intense #kind

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#energy #hard #how #i #into

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials. ↗

— Yoshio Taniguchi

#ample #bigger #budget #i #i am

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#command #consider #extends #grows #i

I wait and take on projects that I think can work. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#i think #projects #take #think #wait

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#childhood #motherhood #projection #psychology #childhood

We tend to take whatever’s worked in our particular set of circumstances (big family, small family, AP, Ezzo, home school, public school) and project that upon everyone else in the world as the ideal. ↗

— Rachel Held Evans

#parenting #projection #family