Get Work Done Quotes

#1. Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

Robert Greene

#2. When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.

Lindsey Buckingham

#3. Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'

Evan Sayet

#4. I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

Zachary Cole Smith

#5. I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Noam Chomsky

#6. How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

Carrie Mae Weems

#7. People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people

Colin Powell

#8. We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push to make us have a good time. In both cases, our future self will appreciate the help.

Virginia Postrel

#9. The world is not worthless but one should know how to get work done from it, because everyone is God, they all have different work to do. Therefore do not have dislike for anything in this world.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

Robert Pozen

#11. I'm taking a pretty light load. I'm doing well. Gideon and Jason are both in school too, so we find time between shows to get work done, and during the day. I really like Columbia. Unlike high school, I don't feel any pressure to get straight-As. I just like learning.

Sarah Steele

#12. Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.

George Peabody

#13. No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

Aurangzeb

#14. Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Coco Chanel

#15. Too often, hospital staff are incented by management to get work done without worrying about care, and clinicians are too often not even trained to think about care.

Dave DeBronkart

#16. If I get work done early, I can do some interacting with fans online, or see my friends. If I don't get that work done, you may not see much of me!

Cassandra Clare

#17. I make everybody feel that he doesn't really want to do any good work but that he just wants to get work done that will be thought good by everyone he knows ...

J.D. Salinger

#18. If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

Marc Andreessen

#19. Be boring. (It's the only way to get work done.)

Austin Kleon

#20. If I'm really under pressure to get work done, I can adapt to most situations, but I prefer to be at home, in a comfortable chair, with as few distractions as possible.

John Corey Whaley

#21. People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.

Ernie J Zelinski

#22. 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

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

Jeff Koons

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

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

James Ling

#39. When I first started writing, I did mostly short fiction, and I'd work on a short story and get near to being done and have no idea what I'd work on next, and then I'd panic.

Ann Leckie

#40. Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.

Jason Fried

#41. You have to be in tune with your body and know when your body is saying, 'That's enough, you're done for the day.' If you over-fatigue and are totally stressed, you get sick. And if I get sick, I can't work.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#42. The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.

George Stephen

#43. In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down.

Bill Gates

#44. For a long time, it was hard for me to get my work done in Chicago. Silk Road gave me opportunities to do shows like 'Golden Child' - shows that nobody else seemed interested in. And they bring an artistic integrity to the work that matches anything you'll find at a bigger theatre.

David Henry Hwang

#45. Some people might think that what I've done before made it easier for me to get jobs, but it was actually a disadvantage. I had to work even harder.

Kendall Jenner

#46. As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for the work that I've done in another movie. I really enjoy that.

Simon McBurney

#47. Is it wrong that I want to order him some briefs just so I can get some work done?

Karina Halle

#48. Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

Mark Cuban

#49. If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

Donald Hall

#50. You don't have to do offbeat films to prove that you can act. I have done it but only to prove myself that I can fit convincingly into every kind of films. I want to do the 100 crore film where the hero does all the work, and I get to relax.

Bipasha Basu

#51. I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

Norman Finkelstein

#52. Working more doesn't mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more.

Jason Fried

#53. I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.

Jack White

#54. Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

Katori Hall

#55. Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

Walt Disney Company

#56. Scared of words? I don't see why
anybody ought to fear words. Words are tools;
you have to know how to use them to get done
the job you want to get done. Can't do the work
if you're scared of the work.

Thylias Moss

#57. A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

Damien Hirst

#58. Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.

Susan Wojcicki

#59. When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!

Annie Lennox

#60. They were strong singers, with swift minds and open good humor--arrogant enough to think they could stand on a stage and dogged enough to have done the work to get there.

Vivien Shotwell

#61. I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.

Katy Perry

#62. Believe it or not, one of the things I try to do around here is try to look for opportunities to work with people across the aisle. I know that's not the common narrative. But the truth is if you want to get anything done, that's an absolute requirement.

John Cornyn

#63. The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

Paula Scher

#64. I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

Twyla Tharp

#65. I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

Amanda Burton

#66. Stop killing and wasting time. Get something done today

Sunday Adelaja

#67. The visual is important. "Let's get to work" says let's get it done, and that's what they want.

Frank Luntz

#68. Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.

Chris Christie

#69. I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#70. The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.

Henry Rosovsky

#71. But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.

Elvis Stojko

#72. The United States played the role of encouraging both sides to come together to try to finally resolve this issue, and we were pleased to see leaders on both sides work courageously to get that done.

Josh Earnest

#73. What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?

William Gaddis

#74. When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

Coco Lee

#75. Do not tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. - James J. Ling

Zig Ziglar

#76. The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#77. Even when you're producing difficult material and you get emotional, after it you feel good; you feel like you've done a good job, or had an emotional release. I've always enjoyed that, but you go home and think, that was a good day's work, and you move on.

Jonny Lee Miller

#78. You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Jerry West

#79. If
you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

Dorothy Height

#80. When you're young, you want to convince everyone that you're right and they're wrong. As you get older, it's not important if you are right or wrong, it's important that you work together with other people and get something done.

Gino Vannelli

#81. The whole key is to be honest with yourself, find the weak spots, work on it, get it done.

Wladimir Klitschko

#82. It is worse than useless to do things halfway Bee, for then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get less done, it is better to do the whole task the first time.

Robin Hobb

#83. Writing is pretty flexible work, don't you think? If you want to surf, you just have to get a lot done when the waves are lousy. That's what I'm always telling myself, anyway - write while the surf's down!

William Finnegan

#84. Tim Irwin cites the maxim: If the leader didn't come to work today, everything would probably still get done; but if the people didn't come to work today, nothing would get done.

Richard Blackaby

#85. I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

Ray Bradbury

#86. Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it's not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym and to stay up late to get a few more things done. That's short-sighted. Exercise and sleep are critical to having the physical and mental energy necessary to meet a challenge.

Gretchen Rubin

#87. I keep a notebook of the things I need to get done in a day, week, month along with my overarching goals. Whenever I have a couple moments on set or on a plane, I work on ticking off my to-do list.

Karlie Kloss

#88. Remember that, as George Whitefield said, man is immortal till his work is done (though God alone defines the work), and get on with what you know to be God's task for you here and now.

J.I. Packer

#89. People always tell me, 'Don't work so much', but I can't help it. I feel like all the things I've done are important to get to this adult stage and now I'm getting all these adult offers, so it's working.

Kirsten Dunst

#90. I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

Jason Gann

#91. The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.

Larry Constantine

#92. It's really hard to get any work done in my apartment when my bed is also in my apartment.

Sasheer Zamata

#93. First up, get rid of Luke.
Second, go workout with Riley.
Third, get some work done.
Fourth, learn how to become a lesbian.

Kristen Ashley

#94. If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

Julia Child

#95. She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started, the whole edifice might roar down and be done away with.

Ray Bradbury

#96. Even if you get a joke right you've done it a thousand times and sometimes there's times where it just doesn't work or someone doesn't agree with you. And I want to show that. I have had more hecklers because that's part of comedy is arguments, you know?

Godfrey

#97. Most days of the week, I wake up at 5:30 am and my run starts by 6 am. I am done with the run by 8 am and get to work between 9:30 am and 10 am. After a normal business day I am back home and in bed by 9:30 pm.

Amit Sheth

#98. I'll go anywhere and I'll do whatever it takes to get this done. It's too important for Washington to screw this up. Now's the time for us to work on what we all agree to, which is let's keep middle-class taxes low. That's what our economy needs. That's what the American people deserve.

Barack Obama

#99. You want the truth? ... I'm attracted to you. Really attracted to you. Have been since the first time I saw you. Tried to be respectful, considering you were seeing someone. Done doing that. If you work here, I'm going to try to get you into my bed.

Vi Keeland

#100. I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.

Elisha Cuthbert