What's done can't be undone.
Well done is better than well said.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
Don't hate the media; become the media.
What's done is done. Whether to you, or by you, and you cannot change it. But what's not done is not done. And there, both hope and hazard lie.
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.
