Top 284 Undertaking Quotes & Sayings

Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

An undertaking beset with danger.

Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

'Scarface' was a tremendous undertaking, and I'm one of those who really feel that no one could have done it like Brian De Palma.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

'Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.

The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking.

You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.

Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless.

Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

By undertaking many things, I have accomplished nothing.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

People think meditation is a huge undertaking.

Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

I was sad the show [Payne] only lasted one season. It was a big undertaking. It'd be fun to revisit, but it'll probably never happen.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

Writing a book is not a small undertaking, but God placed it on my heart to trust Him with such a project.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

Being a comedian is probably the only job apart from undertaking that isn't age restricted.

I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.

No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

Any musical is a major undertaking.

Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

Marriage is an undertaking that requires focused time and attention to prepare effectively.

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

Launching and seeding awareness of a new tagline is a major financial undertaking. You'd have to be very sure that you needed to do that.

If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

When you've got kids, it's a big undertaking. It's like doing four movies in a row.

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unnecessary.

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

I have no tattoos at all - it was a huge undertaking for me in the '80s to let my parents know I was piercing my ear when I did 'L.A. Law.'

It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.