“Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.”
2000s, AARP magazine interview (2008)
Context: When a life is at stake and it's your child, you become fearless in a lot of ways. I mean, you jut become fanatic. Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.
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“Well, nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.”
Address to fleet officers (August 11, 1917), quoted in Joseph P. Tumulty, Woodrow Wilson As I Know Him (1921), p. 297 https://books.google.com/books?id=f3xw1nfcn14C&vq=%22Nothing%20was%20ever%22&pg=PA297#v=onepage&q&f=false
1910s
“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
Variant: If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e
“They sat around accessing media all day and talking about it, and nothing ever seemed to get done.”
Source: All Tomorrow's Parties (2003), Ch. 7 : Sharehouse, p. 33
“If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.”
“The way you can tell there’s democracy going on is that nothing gets done.”
Part 2, Chapter 8 (p. 172)
A Million Open Doors (1992)
“If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll get nothing done.”
As quoted in Behavior in Organizations : Understanding & Managing the Human Side of Work (1995) by Jerald Greenberg and Robert A. Baron, p. 371
Doris, Chapter 19, p. 247
2000s, At First Sight (2005)
“Nothing is little if done with the heart.”
Original: (it) Nulla è poco se fatto con il cuore.
Source: prevale.net
“Nothing is little if done with the heart.”
From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale