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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. -- Oswald Chambers
I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done. -- Christine Quinn
The secret of getting things done is to act! -- Dante Alighieri
Connecting with people, getting things done - that's what makes the travel worthwhile. -- Tim Finchem
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. -- Colleen Barrett
The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order. -- Robert Breault
Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done -- Timothy Geithner
We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses. -- Tony Abbott
Leadership is not always about getting things done 'right.' Leadership is about getting things done through other people. -- Andy Stanley
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done. -- Simon Sinek
Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. -- Seth Godin
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done. -- Susan Orlean
The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution. -- Michael Bergdahl
Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible. -- Harvey Mackay
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. -- Lin Yutang
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
The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church 'on the job training' in overcoming the forces hostile to God. -- Paul Billheimer
I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people. -- Scott McClellan
Management is the art of getting things done through people. -- Mary Parker Follett
If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done. -- Eli Roth
I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done. -- Brian Clough
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger. -- Christine Quinn
The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done. -- William J. Clinton
I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done. -- Gary Sinise
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
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
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
Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do. -- Sydney J. Harris
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
In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can't be done. People who live with excuses have things that can't be done hovering around them all the time. -- Mike Krzyzewski
I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge. -- Richard M. Daley
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
Work smart. Get things done. -- Susan Wojcicki
Power is the ability to get things done. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
To get things done, you have to get people together. -- Christine Quinn
Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done. -- Ang Lee
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done. -- Ogden Nash
You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive. -- David Harsanyi
I guess I'm flattered that people think I can help get things done. -- Tony Dungy
Part of America is we've always had people that can get things done. -- Stephen Pagliuca
We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done. -- Matt Taibbi
I am looking forward to getting to do things I have never done before. -- Tony Danza
Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done. -- Anna Paquin
I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done. -- Elon Musk
Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward. -- Michael Nutter
I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things. -- Marilyn Manson
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
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
Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals. -- Donald Trump
Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen has been the Queensland premier the whole time we've been in Australia, and the state is a national joke for having a Deep North government thats said to resemble governments of a generation or more ago in some parts of the US Deep South - governments that always talk about getting things done and never talk about rights. -- Nick Earls
We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today. -- Todd Haynes
Getting to be involved with fashion is one of the coolest things I've done. -- Bethany Cosentino
I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children. -- Eve Best
I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly. -- Freema Agyeman
I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better. -- Charles Schumer
Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities. -- Alan Cohen
I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things. -- Lauren Lee Smith
Of all the things that matter, that really and truly matter, working more efficiently and getting more done, is not one of them. -- Mike Dooley
I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that. -- Steve Jobs
The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel. -- Charles R. Schwab
Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it. -- Emeli Sande
When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done. -- David Cottrell

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