Get Done Quotes

#1. I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

Alia Shawkat

#2. Do you realize how many abusers are walking around unpunished? How many rape charges are dropped because of 'insufficient' evidence, or how many date rapists get away with what they've done because the victim is too scared to tell anyone?

Elle Kennedy

#3. If you want to get anything done, you don't go to the government.

Alex Shvartsman

#4. Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

Donald Norman

#5. If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

Jeff Koons

#6. Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.

Randall Robinson

#7. I wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

David Levithan

#8. Then I figured it would be a good plan to hire a few sailors to work for me, get them out to my yacht, get them drunk, commit sodomy on them, rob them and then kill them. This I done.

Carl Panzram

#9. I've never done anything for money, and that is why I got money. When you do stuff for money, you never get money.

Roseanne Barr

#10. You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.

Peter Thiel

#11. The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Russell Simmons

#12. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou

#13. I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.

Joe Budden

#14. If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do that. It's easy to get in and have fun. To me, if it feels right, that's all that needs to be done.

Sam Dew

#15. Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

Caitlyn Jenner

#16. By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.

Terry Pratchett

#17. There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

James Taylor

#18. I hate how when I have a bunch of events going on and I have to get my hair done so much, [then] I have to wash it more often. It's definitely better not to.

L'Wren Scott

#19. And with returning awareness, he saw as if for the first time the bodies of the men that he had killed to get to the Regent's decoy, and beyond that, the evidence of what he had done. The

C.S. Pacat

#20. Lyrics are always the last thing to get done.

Jeff Hanneman

#21. The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!

Seth Godin

#22. I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to get attracted to them. I've never been in a bar and just hit on a guy and started kissing him; I've never done that in my life.

Ana De La Reguera

#23. I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.

Anne Taintor

#24. I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.

Chris Stapleton

#25. Here I sit, sober and perhaps even lucid, on the sort of winter's day that makes you realize a New Year is just around the corner and you've got very little to show for it, but if you are going to get anything done on this planet, you better pick it up with both hands and DO IT YOURSELF.

Peter Laughner

#26. You can't be serious," Eve said. "Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I've seen the movies."
"Eve," Michael said. "Horror movies are not documentaries.

Rachel Caine

#27. We would none of us get much done if we allowed such things to rule our actions.

Christine Pope

#28. Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Zygmunt Bauman

#29. And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.

Duane G. Carey

#30. I was never really cut out to be a student, I prefer to actually work and get a project done and learn that way- but I have a huge respect for good teachers and even enjoy teaching ... I am a conundrum!

Holly Golightly

#31. I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other ... get things done as a family.

John Boehner

#32. I think I'm fortunate as an actor in that I do seem to get opportunities to play roles that aren't necessarily typical of what I've done before.

Martin Henderson

#33. I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.

Andrae Crouch

#34. It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. If we all got what we deserved we'd all be dead. And yet somehow God refrains from smiting us. Whatever you ought to have done then, dying won't undo it now.

Rosamund Hodge

#36. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job's got to get done and they're the only ones left to do it

Meg Cabot

#37. I find it hard to express myself when writing from the f - - - heart or the a - , or wherever. It's just like anything, it's (easier) when you get used to it, but I've not done it. I was just a singer in a band.

Liam Gallagher

#38. To get the right things done, choosing what to ignore is as important as choosing where to focus.

Peter Bregman

#39. My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.

Francine Jay

#40. Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught.

Jack LaLanne

#41. One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Joe Haldeman

#42. You'll want men who are competent, who can get the job done. Who wants to be surrounded by morons and fuck-ups?

Jack Donovan

#43. Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

Alan W. Watts

#44. Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done.

Len Dawson

#45. We hunt the White Stag, like Quentin did. We catch it or shoot it or whatever you do with it. We get three wishes. We wish Fillory would last forever and not die. Done. Mischief managed." Eliot

Lev Grossman

#46. I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.

Christine Quinn

#47. I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics.

Charles Schumer

#48. A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

Robert Benchley

#49. I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging out with many people really helps. I am not a people person and I spend a great deal of time on my own and in this environment, I get a lot done.

Henry Rollins

#50. You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done ... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.

Will Rogers

#51. You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

Robert Pozen

#52. Best way to get something done is to give it to someone who is busy, said Vetinari.

Terry Pratchett

#53. But feeling down can make you feel up if you're the creative type. The emotional damage may have already been done to you, but stop whining. Use your insanity to get ahead.

John Waters

#54. As a general rule, if you have a product that doesn't get the job done that a customer is needing to get done, then often you have to offer it for zero. Because if you ask for money for it - because if it doesn't do the job well, they won't pay for it.

Clayton M Christensen

#55. Since I've turned 50, I've had the best roles of my life, and I've got married. Everyone said that wasn't possible because there are no men, but I've done it. I think it's just going to get better.

Lesley Nicol

#56. You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.

Daoud Hari

#57. All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm.

Bob Dylan

#58. While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

Burton Richter

#59. Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore."
Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek.

Jim Butcher

#60. Many people confuse a Dom personality with a Dom's position of authority. The two are not exactly the same or interchangeable. A true Dom dominates. Plain and simple. And by dominate, we mean does what it takes to get a job done. Even if that means submit.

Lucian Bane

#61. To get the job done preaching must be committed to two goals: first it should be passionate and second, fascinating.

Calvin Miller

#62. I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

Philip Roth

#63. Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

Aubrey De Grey

#64. What though distresses afflict me, though Satan assault me, though there may be many things to be experienced before I get to heaven, those are done for me in the covenant of divine grace; there is nothing wanting in my Lord, Christ hath done it all. On the cross He said, It is finished!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#65. Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

Brad Listi

#66. People support me because they know me. They know my life's work. They have worked with me and many have also worked with Senator [Bernie] Sanders. And at the end of the day they endorse me because they know I can get things done.

Hillary Clinton

#67. We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

Tim Berners-Lee

#68. I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.

Gerard Butler

#69. If we spent the majority of our focus just concentrating on our side of the street, not so much on what the next guy is doing, I think I'd get a lot more done - we'd all get a lot more done - and we'd probably have a lot less criticism for everybody else.

Grant Bowler

#70. I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's your homeland or when you're traveling. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life.

Aaron Rodgers

#71. I like Oprah. I could sit around and make vision boards all day, but I wouldn't actually get anything done if I were to concentrate on my feelings rather than doing.

Jen Lancaster

#72. The traceur doesn't knock an obstacle out of the way unless it's absolutely necessary. He meanders his way past it. Over. Under. Through. Around. He gets past not by moving the obstacle but by moving himself. That is parkour, and working this job I use every technique I know just to get it done.

Sam A. Patel

#73. This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn't work in New Jersey, they look at me, say: "Why didn't it get done? Why didn't you do it?" You have to be responsible and accountable.

Chris Christie

#74. For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

Rebecca Skloot

#75. He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.

Neal Shusterman

#76. Listen," I sighed and reached for my plastic bottle. "I want to get this sh!t over and done. Can we strive to obtain that goal? I have a meaningless existence, and I can't put that kind of action on hold indefinitely

J.A. Saare

#77. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school. Each time you try to go a little further, get a little deeper, feel a little more, sculpt it a little better.

Kim Basinger

#78. If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

Avinash Narula

#79. It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

Grace Hopper

#80. If you got something outside the common run that's got to be done and cant wait, dont waste your time on the menfolks; they works on what your uncle calls the rules and the cases. Get the womens and the children at it; they works on the circumstances.

William Faulkner

#81. I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.

Richard Carmona

#82. If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#83. When you have known someone your whole life you don't need a lot of warm-up time to get into a big argument. All the fore-play has been done years ago, and so the battle sits in your memory like stove gas awaiting the match. A wrong word, a careless allusion, and the old fire is suddenly raging.

Roland Merullo

#84. Just hanging around the house is deadly--get out and experience the world together; do things you've never done before!

Laura C. Schlessinger

#85. Today we have done an hour's saluting drill because Tjaden failed to salute a major smartly enough. Kat can't get it out of his head. "You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well," he says. Kropp

Erich Maria Remarque

#86. I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

Bob Dole

#87. The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group here in Southern California because of the Hollywood situation. They knew they could get a lot of them. They were shaking down people for thousands in blackmail.

Harry Hay

#88. A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

Cormac McCarthy

#89. To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.

Helen Reddy

#90. If you get a second chance, grab it with the first and second hands. Never let it go till all is done and done well. Second chances come with the last graces!

Israelmore Ayivor

#91. What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done.

Morgan Freeman

#92. You think you know what you want and how it's all supposed to turn out. When all is said and done, you get what you need. You know in the end that what you need is what you really wanted all along.

Kate McGahan

#93. Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.

John Barry

#94. I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.'

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#95. I get up at six to work out. I've done it since school, it's always been part of my life. It's a good way to take the edge off. I like getting up early; I've got a daughter, I'm a single dad.

Ray Liotta

#96. I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.

Tony Goldwyn

#97. I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years - I think you can allow me that at least.

Rahul Dravid

#98. I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.

Anna Kendrick

#99. If you can't get an intro to a VC, hang up your cleats now. You're done, GAME OVER

Mark Suster

#100. Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

James Ling