Unattained Objectives Quotes

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

I'm not usually comfortable to talk about things I haven't done yet.

When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.

When I perform as a solo, I think a lot about what I always wanted to do but have not done yet.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

I feel there's everything to do yet.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

I think all actors, when they're not working, say, 'If I can get to this point where I'm working on a consistent basis, I'll be happy.' Of course, then, if that happens for you, and you're lucky, you find some other reason to complain. There's a joke: 'If you want to hear an actor complain, give him a job.'

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.