Top 100 Quotes About Get Going
#1. In 1963, while my brothers were engaged in their lives, I call this period of my life 'my character-building years.' I adhered to the saying, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Marc Ashton
#2. With the year off, I think most guys were excited to get going, but coming to Ottawa, a new place, made me even more excited.
Dany Heatley
#3. "Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?"
Jack Welch
#4. Miss Volker," I said about as politely as I knew how, "do you think you will outlast the rest of these original people?" "I have to," she said. "I made a promise to Eleanor Roosevelt to see them to their graves, and I can't drop dead on the job - so let's get going.
Jack Gantos
#5. Now get going. You'll find a way of calm through."
"And you, Mael?"
"I'll drop in later. I've things for you to do, Withal. But for now," he faced inland, "I'm going to beat a god senseless.
Steven Erikson
#6. A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'
Tullian Tchividjian
#7. Mmm. Don't make me regret it, satyr. Now get going, Percy Jackson. I've bought you a few hours at most.
Rick Riordan
#9. Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
Penelope Lively
#10. I do try to plot about a chapter ahead once I get going. I have a list of upcoming scenes with little notes about them. But sometimes the story changes and I don't end up following that.
Pamela Clare
#13. Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
Ken Blanchard
#14. Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.
Donald J. Trump
#15. When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.
Chuck Feeney
#16. There are models who don't eat. That's worrisome - you need the right amount of gas to get going.
Alek Wek
#17. Glad you're back to normal. The makeup and the dress were a lot more intimidating than the dagger."
"Get going, Sparky, before I skewer you."
"Sparky?
Rick Riordan
#18. Women in bed are like Diesel engines. What I mean by that is, it may take them a while to get going, but when you do, they can go for a long, long time. Whereas men are like ... bottle rockets.
Jeff Foxworthy
#19. Make an effort to exert yourself-everyday. Don't fail because you never allowed yourself to get started! Don't avoid success because you think the responsibility might be too much-just focus and get going! You'd be surprised at what intelligent effort can produce.
Donald Trump
#20. When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.
Reed Hundt
#22. This sort of obsessing would get him nowhere. He needed to move on, to get going, to look forward.
Jodi Picoult
#23. I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going.
Ryan Sheckler
#24. Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.
Ron Hill
#25. I like games that are simple. Not games that are trivial, but also not games that require you to invest a week or to relearn something. I like games that you can just pick up, sit down in front of, and get going.
Sid Meier
#26. I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.
Helen Suzman
#27. If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.
Louis Navellier
#28. The only way to make a spoilt machine work again is to break it down, work on its inner system and fix it again. Screw out the bolts of your life, examine and work on yourself, fix your life again and get going.
Israelmore Ayivor
#29. The going was rough, and it was time to get going. There was no time like the present, because the early bird catches the worm.
Nicholas Sparks
#30. At three-thirty, she announced, I gotta get going. I'm supposed to meet my sister in the Ginza.
Haruki Murakami
#31. We really have to get going," Sam said. "Can we leave the car here and pick it up later?"
The monk said, "Does a dog have a Buddha nature?"
Does a fish have a watertight asshole?" said Coyote.
Christopher Moore
#32. It's always once the script's done in the first two years if it doesn't get going somehow or another, I've never had an old script that someone's made later on.
Brian Helgeland
#33. If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.
Philip Pullman
#34. We'd better get going." Caramon glanced around uneasily. "We show up like a jewel in a gypsy dancer's navel.
Margaret Weis
#35. I can speak volumes about the guy sitting next to me. You look at his stat line tonight, he had a lot of foul trouble and didn't really get going, but when he was in there, he was defending. He was playing physical, and he was doing everything he could to help us win.
Stephen Curry
#36. You never know what you find once you really get going.
Jan Hammer
#37. The first thing we better get going is strengthening our economy, because if we don't have a strong economy, we can't pay for all of this. And the world wants us to be able to function from strength, believe it or not.
John Kasich
#38. When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.
Frank Leahy
#39. There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.
Ed Belfour
#40. Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.
Richard G. Scott
#41. The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is led step by step to correct his errors, whereas nothing will ever happen to him if he doesn't get going.
Paul Tournier
#42. My solos are more tastefully conceived now. But I still get going in places. It's just that I build up to it now. I don't race off on a solo. I take my time.
Alvin Lee
#43. Making money, getting yourself status in this world is not everything at all. But it has become everything in America. That you really have to get going and keep up with the Jones'. Get a house and a car and other things. And pretty soon you're stymied. Things own you.
Frank Capra
#44. If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.
Kevin Systrom
#45. You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.
Ellen DeGeneres
#46. Da was a real fisherman. But it wasn't the catch that mattered, it was the skill of the cast, the preparation of the flies. I often think my inability to prepare, my desire to get going, are a direct result of watching my father making all those painstaking preparations before he cast his line.
Terry Wogan
#47. You don't need anyone's approval and in fact, you probably won't get it, so don't even try. Build, release and iterate. Make a list of the features you want to create over the next six months and get going! For small companies, once a week; for larger companies, maybe twice a month.
Kevin Rose
#48. The leader sees things through the eyes of his followers. He puts himself in their shoes and helps them make their dreams come true. The leader does not say, "Get going!" Instead he says, "Let's go!" and leads the way. He does not walk behind with a whip; he is out in front with a banner.
Wilferd Peterson
#49. Be the player in your own dream life. Don't be a spectator watching your dreams every day; Let them get going!
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.
Sue Miller
#51. Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.
Mark Kozelek
#52. I decided with this new awareness to dedicate my day to moving at my own natural, calm pace, and not pressuring myself to get going, get moving, or hurry up at all, something quite different from what I otherwise did.
Sonia Choquette
#53. When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It couldn't wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on.
Bill Bryson
#54. Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.
Harvey MacKay
#55. I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
Sylvester Stallone
#56. I usually get up around 6 A.M. It takes me a while to get going. In our household, I am the first one up. I usually make coffee for myself, draw a bath and have a big soak. I read in the bath.
Rick Bayless
#57. In Joey's neighborhood the blocks were short and there were stop signs on every corner. It was hard to get going more than fifteen miles an hour, and on those lazy streets Joey's refurbished 1973 El Dorado convertible got about eight blocks to the gallon.
Laurence Shames
#58. Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
Tom Petty
#59. I play how I feel. I don't have a set way of playing. I get going, looking to create danger.
Franck Ribery
#60. College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.
Paul Ryan
#61. I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.
Bill Gates
#62. And to any new fans we made along the way, I say ... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going.
Richard Marx
#63. People who are committed to mastery don't freak out (as much) when they hit an obstacle. They reassess and then get going again, thinking they can get better.
Henry Cloud
#64. I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show.
Dennis Quaid
#65. He looked at his watch and knew he had to get going. He wished he could spend forever staring at her, but he was not meant to have that much happiness; he never thought he deserved it. Not after spending centuries as he did.
Daniele Lanzarotta
#66. Improve yourself. Raise your attitude up to excellence for success. Get going now and create the reality.
Mark LaMoure
#67. I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
Vikas Swarup
#68. It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.
Tinsel Korey
#69. No matter how rich you are; you still only need one good toaster in the morning to get going.
Brendan Nolan
#70. The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.
Karen Traviss
#71. I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.
Stephen Hawking
#72. The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.
Sterling W. Sill
#73. We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.
Craig Benson
#74. I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.
David O. Russell
#75. Do not let anything from your past inhibit you in this Present Moment. Start over. Start Fresh. Each day. Each hour, if it serves you. Heck, each minute. Just get going. Just do it. Just say it. With love. All else will take care of itself.
Neale Donald Walsch
#76. If everything goes right then I can get going.
Lionel
#77. Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"
Michael Richards
#79. Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
Wanda Sykes
#80. My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I get going I like to hunch over the keyboard until I feel totally played out.
Jess Walter
#81. I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I'm there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good.
Chris Evans
#82. He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die
and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.
Dodie Smith
#83. Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.
W. H. Auden
#84. The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.
Peter McWilliams
#85. I value the momentum of making the list and the drive to tick. Sometimes I add stuff I've already accomplished so I can get going on my feelings of accomplishment.
Sara Genn
#86. I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
Damon Galgut
#87. How touching," Janco said, pretending to wipe his eyes. "Get going, Yelena. I don't want you to see me cry." He faked a sniffle.
"I'm sure your ego can handle it," I said. "Or will you need to beat up some trainees to feel like a man again?
Maria V. Snyder
#88. I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but ... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.
Elisha Cuthbert
#89. I know what I want to do, and it makes sense to get going.
Warren Buffett
#90. It doesn't matter how much you plan, you'll still get some stuff wrong anyway. Don't make things worse by overanalyzing and delaying before you even get going.
Jason Fried
#91. Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.
Marianne Williamson
#92. Some people treat seeing me as if they just won a car on 'The Price is Right.' The feet get going, and the hands start flapping, and it's really quite amazing. It's a little scary: you can't have more than two or three of them at the same time because someone might get hurt. But it's great fun.
John Schneider
#93. There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start to do this bad Rick Moranis voice I do as well when I really get going. It's pretty horrible.
Al Madrigal
#94. We can stop waiting for life to become perfect and start working with what we've got to make it as satisfying as we can. We can accept, bless, give thanks, and get going. Today, we can begin to call forth the riches from our everyday life. Today we can move from lack to abundance.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#95. If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going.
Linus Pauling
#96. I remember coming home from school one time and saying very calmly to my mum, 'I'm not going any more. It's a waste of time. I gotta get going with this music thing. School's getting in the way.' It freaked her out.
Kid Rock
#97. At a party, I am the kind of girl who will wait until the end of the night before I really get going. I'm a little anti-social at first, but I'm not immune to dancing on tables either.
Emily VanCamp
#98. Journalism doesn't have to be your first love ... or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can't think of anything better to do with your life, that it's this or the abyss. But once you get going ... it helps if you love it.
Robert Krulwich
#99. I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.'
Lee Child
#100. When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.
Mary Harron
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