He wanted the chance to do something, to leave his mark.
Personally, I always wanted to do something to leave a mark for future generations, even if will be my paintings, where I recorded not only the greatness of technology, but the frailty of human condition, including mine, my loneliness, expressed with humorous tones.
Telling this early career scientist to grin and bear unprofessional behavior from her adviser, rather than doing something to mitigate it, leaves her stuck in a professional relationship where it may never be possible to engage the adviser's scientific interest without concerns about engaging his carnal interest.
Facing term limits, Mr. Carcieri had only months left to do something to arrest the steep decline.
Venture out, do something, but to leave a nice but perhaps boring girl for a girl you know a skank and that will sleep around… well, you answered your own question.
Development financing used to operate with let's create an agency or an institution that will do some good with development and give it some money to do something and leave it up to these guys to do it in a reasonably effective way.
If I want one to do something (like leave the room), I try to talk to it calmly.
But at the same time I feel very good about the sense of contribution that I feel, being able to help, being able to do something, being able to leave behind better things, being able to say you were a small part of something important is meaningful," he said.
I like to do something and leave it behind.
If you want to do something, you leave the email behind and do it on the other side of the moat.
