Top 100 Quotes About Things Done
#1. It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
Eduardo Paes
#2. There are two types of women in the world, Beattie, those who do things and those who have things done to them.
Kimberley Freeman
#3. We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#4. The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly.
Sam Altman
#5. Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.
Elizabeth Lesser
#6. I'm just working hard because I know that's the way you can get things done. That's how I've been able to be successful.
Torrey Smith
#7. Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.
Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington
#8. Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
Naveen Jain
#9. We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!
Jon Stewart
#10. Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.
Orrin Woodward
#11. The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.
William J. Clinton
#12. We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.
Tony Abbott
#13. All of my plays are about people missing the boat, closing down too young, coming to the end of their lives with regret at things not done, as opposed to things done. II find most people spend too much time living as if they're never going to die.
Edward Albee
#14. Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.
Emma Goldman
#15. Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.
Alan Cohen
#16. Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.
Ayn Rand
#17. It was becoming very complicated because of all the modifications they were doing along the way and taking everyone double the work hours to get things done.
Sheri Grunska
#18. When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Colleen Barrett
#19. Peter, before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. (578)
Ayn Rand
#20. Vision is about more than just getting things done, accomplishing some task, achieving something; it is about discovering and expanding our view of others, affirming them, believing in them, and helping them discover and realize the potential within them-helping them find their own voice.
Stephen Covey
#21. Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!
Sandra Tsing Loh
#22. It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.
Allison Tolman
#23. The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.
Terry Pratchett
#24. Even as entrepreneurs, we rely on people to get things done. We may have the original idea, but moving it forward can involve hundreds of people. Every person becomes integral to the overall success.
Donald J. Trump
#25. Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it.
Herschel Walker
#26. History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.
Michelle Malkin
#27. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#28. The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
Octavio Paz
#29. noon. Having all the time in the world makes getting things done impossible. I've earned a rest; I've worked without breaks since
Erika Swyler
#30. basis, you may find that it is affecting your daily life because you simply don't get things done. Fortunately, there are a number of habits that you can introduce into your life to stop procrastination. Some of them
Sam Davis
#31. Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
Zora Neale Hurston
#32. Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
Ang Lee
#33. A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane ...
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#34. I don't think intimidated is the word. I definitely get excited by it. I don't want to let anybody down. I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100 percent perfect. I do feel it when people hold me to high expectations.
Nicki Minaj
#35. Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.
Donna Edwards
#36. Not seeking acknowledgment for things done well but finding satisfaction in doing them well.
Daniel Menaker
#37. If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.
Ralph Nader
#38. Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.
Michael Nutter
#39. I don't want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don't love you, ones who are dead or hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can't get things done.
Henry Rollins
#40. Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.
Peter Drucker
#41. Most people live life backwards. They party and kill time in their youth, when they're strong and have the energy to accomplish great things. And then they're older, they try to get things done, but they have less energy and enthusiasm by that time.
Jarod Kintz
#42. I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
Joe Klein
#43. As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.
Stewart Lee Beck
#44. For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
Cai Guo-Qiang
#46. I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.
Hillary Clinton
#47. She's a planner. She doesn't, you know, wing anything. She likes to make lists and check things off, get things done.
Gillian Flynn
#48. Beside the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
Lin Yu Tang
#49. Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.
That would be you.
Seth Godin
#50. We've got to get things done. We've got an economy that is stabilized, but not moving ahead.
Amy Klobuchar
#51. Having all the time in the world makes getting things done impossible.
Erika Swyler
#52. Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his Son's image.
Paul E. Miller
#53. You do not exist in this world to get things done. You exist to glorify God by doing good to others.
Tim Challies
#54. Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.
Richard Rogers
#55. Studio films are really fun. You have months and months to shoot. With the smaller films you get to be on a much more intimate set and have to get things done quickly.
Emma Roberts
#56. Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
Rand Paul
#57. In America, being able to get things done, especially if it's by bending rules, making exceptions, or calling in a favor, is the way to show power. In France, being able to say non (especially to a bureaucratically legitimate request) is the way to show power. And piss me off.
Vivian Swift
#58. FEAR is "False Expectation Appearing Real". It creates dangers where there are none and holds you back from getting things done.
R.v.m.
#59. I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.
Henry Rollins
#60. I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.
Nicki Minaj
#63. All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
Paul Cezanne
#64. That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems.
Richard M. Daley
#65. On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
Evelyn Underhill
#66. Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.
Peter Drucker
#67. Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#68. Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.
Joel Spolsky
#69. I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly.
Bernard Gilpin
#70. My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.
James Cash Penney
#71. Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things done.
Lawrence Blume
#72. Prayer and hard work are a pretty good one-two punch to get things done.
Rick Santorum
#73. Trust remains the coin of the realm in politics. A President who is trusted, by the people, by the congress, by the press, by foreign countries, is a President who can get a lot of good things done.
David Gergen
#74. I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.
Christine Quinn
#76. The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them
Benjamin Jowett
#77. The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
Bill McKibben
#78. Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.
Fernand Point
#79. There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
Laura Miller
#80. I care about this state ... and I feel a responsibility to get things done. If we stay healthy and play smart we can be a playoff team. I think we're on the right track.
Steve Mariucci
#81. Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.
C.S. Lewis
#82. I have to go home and get a few things done. If I don't get out the Pledge soon, the dust bunnies are going to be leaving tracks on my furniture ...
Carla Foft
#83. I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.
Christine Quinn
#84. Be the person others can count on to get things done
Larry Winget
#85. Shambhala is a tradition where there were rulers, kings, and powerful people who actually were very benevolent and kind. They got things done, and they didn't abandon their tradition.
Sakyong Mipham
#86. I wish I could be someone that is more in the moment. There's a benefit to being who I am because I get things done, but I probably don't need to be in my own head all the time because it's intense in there.
Steve Grand
#87. When I got to the Senate, I started working with Republicans. I think I practically worked with every single one of them, and a lot of them were on record talking about what a good colleague I am and how I like to get things done.
Hillary Clinton
#88. What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense - none of which can be taught in a classroom ... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.
Hyman G. Rickover
#89. Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving .
Kevin Cashman
#90. People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix.
River Phoenix
#91. I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
Elon Musk
#92. I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.
Doris Lessing
#93. I will get things done for America ... Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground ... Faced with adversity, I will persevere. I will carry this commitment with me this year. I am an Americorps volunteer.
William J. Clinton
#94. Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.
Kyrsten Sinema
#95. It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.
Sophocles
#96. [In] 2010, Woody Allen said that he felt Barack Obama should be a dictator so that he could get things done, and the first thing obviously that Woody Allen wanted done is to make it legal to have sex with stepdaughters.
Greg Gutfeld
#97. If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.
Eli Roth
#98. 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
#99. You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with.
George Carlin
#100. I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.
Nerlens Noel
