Top 100 Get Done Quotes
#2. Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.
Robert Breault
#3. It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age ... What work will get done in the remaining time? ... Can he find a little peace in this twilight? Or must he still rush on, restlessly and hungrily, to the very end?
Eric Maisel
#4. Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
Zig Ziglar
#5. When you get done with breakfast we're going to head into town to do some shopping.
Oh God. It was worse than I thought.
Tammy Blackwell
#6. There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
#7. I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.
Mickey Gilley
#8. One of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A little less time than you want." That means always to have so many things you want to see, to have, and to do, that no day is quite long enough for all you think you would like to get done before you go to bed.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#9. Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.
Mike Schmoker
#10. It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.
David Fincher
#11. On Sundays, I like to plan how I want to exit the week and what are the key things I need to get done that week. I list them, and then I do check-ins on them each morning.
Lynn Jurich
#12. If there's something you need to get done, don't make it a drama. It's much more enjoyable without it.
Jon Mead
#13. My first press tour for 'Vikings' was pretty overwhelming. Between all the hotels, TV shows and talking a lot, I would get done and have to sit in silence for a while. It was exhausting, and you really have to focus.
Clive Standen
#14. It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
Paul Auster
#15. A Champion is all they can be in every facet of their lives. They prioritize what they need to get done. But for me it's someone who works every single day on being a better person.
Shannon Higgins-Cirovski
#16. I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
Darren Star
#17. Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.
Peter Thiel
#19. I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.
Richard Grossman
#20. I've learned that by doing things, things get done
Ray Bradbury
#21. To the extent I can, I try to maintain a laser focus on what needs to get done from a priority standpoint. And not just from an urgency standpoint, but from a value-added standpoint. So where can I add the most value? Where is my time best spent?
Ivanka Trump
#22. They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen.
Caroline Dhavernas
#23. If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done.
Summer Sanders
#24. It's just golf. As long as I get done without breakin' somethin' or hurtin' somebody, that's my goal.
Boo Weekley
#25. I might want to do a hundred things in a given day, but I know I have to pick up my kids between 5 and 6. That is the most important thing. So I fit in everything else around that. I know what needs to be done, and then I know what I want to get done.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#27. If you do nothing, nothing will get done and nothing will change.
Debasish Mridha
#28. I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
Ned Vizzini
#29. Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.
Peter Jackson
#30. When will we get done with the fool idea that the way to make a party grow is to scare away everybody who has an extra dollar in his pocket? God forbid that the Democratic Party should become a mere gathering of the unsuccessful!
John W. Davis
#31. Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
Seth Godin
#32. What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.
L. Ron Hubbard
#33. When you're the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.
Melina Kanakaredes
#34. Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.
Nick Cave
#35. The things that get committed to paper are the things that are committed to in life. And the things that get scheduled are the things that get done.
Robin S. Sharma
#36. Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done.
Daniel Alarcon
#37. The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
Aisha Tyler
#39. If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
Rita Mae Brown
#40. No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#41. Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
Aaron Levie
#42. Make rituals of the important elements of your work. It ensures that they get done without much conscious thought.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#43. Simply put; I'm trying to see what I can get done with the horse without him being troubled about doing it.
Buck Brannaman
#44. What cannot be made simple cannot be made clear and what is not clear will not get done.
Stephen Bungay
#45. You don't build a 100 ft robot out of nothing ... there's rumors and gossip, trace evidence. There's a shadow economy out there, where these things get done.
Austin Grossman
#46. Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#47. You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done.
Will Schwalbe
#49. With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.
Lee Pace
#50. One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.
Barack Obama
#51. I'm a positive person who likes to see things get done.
Kathy Calvin
#52. If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.
Francesco Guicciardini
#53. Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact.
Seth Godin
#54. The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'
Michael LeBoeuf
#55. I seem to be ready for work, my materials are collected, yet the work doesn't get done! Nothing is done!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#56. The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.
Vincent Van Gogh
#57. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to get done.
Denise Linn
#58. Any online gamblers here? Well, Congress is looking in shutting that down.There's going to be a massive congressional investigation of online gambling and they're going to shut it down. And when they get done with that, they're going to look into this North Korean thing.
David Letterman
#59. You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.
Larry Winget
#60. We all have jobs in our lives that we must get done. We reach out and bring products into our lives to get these jobs done. Marketing is all about asking, 'What job is the customer trying to accomplish?'
Clayton Christensen
#61. Just because it may take longer, Doesn't mean your dream won't get done.
Robin Sharma
#62. As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all the stuff that has to get done in the course of a day. When the children are asleep in their beds, I can go where I really need to go in my head.
Anne Michaels
#63. Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline
Gina Barreca
#64. If it takes every cent of my money, every single one of my vast resources, I'll see to it that you never insure another vehicle again. When I get done with you, you won't be able to put on roller skates without the Feds breathing down your neck.
J.A. Konrath
#65. My view is that, you know, life unfolds at its own rhythm. You know, I have never lived a life that I thought I could plan out. And I'm just trying to do the best I can every day. I find I have a lot to get done between the time I get up and the time I go to bed.
Hillary Clinton
#66. Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you.
Jason Dolley
#67. I've learned ... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
Andy Rooney
#68. If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#69. These tasks weren't urgent (which was the reason they didn't get done), but because they weighed on my mind, they sapped my energy.
Gretchen Rubin
#70. Global is a unifying bond for people. Once they get outside their own heads and their own communities and see themselves in a broader framework, it really changes their sense of what they can get done. It all adds up for us.
Kathy Calvin
#71. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow actually responsible.
Mark Vonnegut
#72. The Great Commission will not get done if we're not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.
John Piper
#73. To be so superfocused and honed in on one thing can be good because then you get what you're supposed to get done, done but you also miss out on other things. I could have spent more time with my family, and a million other little things.
Joan Jett
#74. Skousen remembered a world falling apart. Kira remembered a world pulling together to save itself. That was the difference. That was why Skousen and the Senate were too afraid to do what it took to solve this. If it was going to get done, it would have to be the plague babies who did it.
Dan Wells
#75. I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm gone. When you're doing it, you're not focused on success. It's not a matter of modesty. You're simply trying to get all the things done that you want to get done in your life.
George Lucas
#76. If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.
Dorothy Day
#77. Add a task to a busy person's plate, and it will get done in short order. Add a task to the plate of someone with nothing to do, and it will never get done.
Wes Fesler
#78. If you don't do it, it won't get done!
Rick Murcer
#79. It isn't about what you don't get done; it's about what you do get done.
Donald Miller
#80. This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.
Han Suyin
#81. Get done with the damn sibling rivalry and let's get back with the task at hand here so we can figure out what we're going to do.
Pixie Lynn Whitfield
#82. So if you want to go fast, if you want to get done quickly, if you want your code to be easy to write, make it easy to read.
Robert C. Martin
#83. The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person.
Brian Tracy
#84. Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
Barack Obama
#85. Webster said, 'Time them skeeters get done with that old man, his French blood will be all gone and he will speak American as good as we do.
Peter Matthiessen
#86. I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track.
Kevin Systrom
#87. The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was 'do it scared.' And no matter if you're scared, just go ahead and do it anyway because you might as well do it scared, so it will get done and you will feel so much better if you step out of your comfort zone.
Sherri Shepherd
#88. Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
Billy Graham
#89. When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the job the customer needs to get done.
Clayton Christensen
#90. By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
Tanya Tucker
#91. If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just something that's come about because there's projects I find interesting that I would like to help get done.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#92. You can't plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn't get done.
Chris Murray
#93. If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.
Rick Warren
#94. I work on a word count basis, so I have to write three thousand words a day. I can write them in the morning, I can write them in the evening; as long as they get done.
Cassandra Clare
#95. Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
Chris Robinson
#96. His purpose was to get done what needed to be done, and what needed to be done was simple, if not easy.
Larry McMurtry
#97. My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise it won't get done.
Sherri Shepherd
#98. What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
Ted Engstrom
#99. If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
Henry Rollins
#100. The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
Russell Simmons
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