Pet Projects Quotes & Sayings

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything. — Hope Davis

The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects. — Chris Chocola

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests. — Bud Grant

Multitracking keeps egos in check. If your boss has three pet projects in play, chances are she'll be open to unvarnished feedback about them, but if there's only one pet project, it will be harder for her to hear the truth. Her ego will be perfectly conflated with the project. — Chip Heath

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress. — Nick Lampson

Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you. — Bernie Siegel

I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven. — Pietro Perugino

Our spending priorities are clearly in question when we are increasing bond indebtedness on pet projects such as museums while our infrastructure is allegedly failing. Mississippians are spending more on basic needs than ever. They don't need their state government making that worse. — Chris McDaniel

If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way. — Jose Mourinho

Who has the data has the power. — Tim O'Reilly

My soul recognized him and it was easy to be in sync with him - to feel like I'd known him forever. — Char Sharp

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability. — Stephan Pastis