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• 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

  Trying, Climate, Lobbyists

  "Sandbagged: Dealing a blow to carbon trading" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2008.

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• For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need to think about designing the types of institutions we need to get things done in this rapidly accelerating world.

  John Seely Brown

  Thinking, Design, Needs

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• My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Life, Done, Way

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• 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

  Thinking, Reality, People

  "Ports Showdown Averted, White House Relieved". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2006.

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• There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Failure, Two

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Beyond Talent: Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving .

  Kevin Cashman

  Leader, Inspire, Done

  Kevin Cashman (2012). “The Pause Principle: Step Back to Lead Forward”, p.4, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, Men, Evil

  Teresa of Avila (2013). “The Interior Castle”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational Life, Greatness, Done

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• Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work, may be called the end and aim of schools. In education, no work should be done for the sake of the thing done, but for the sake of the growing mind.

  Francis Wayland Parker

  Children, Educational, School

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• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Attitude, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.552, Penguin

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• I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

  Elon Musk

  Creating, Sake, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

  Wilson Mizner

  Achievement, Desire, Looks

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• Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Mean, Fighting, Fire

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• 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

  Perfect, Done, Want

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• 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

  Believe, People, Ego

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• Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

  Ang Lee

  Done, Sometimes, Angry

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• The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Life, Positive, Business

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• In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

  Rashida Jones

  School, Office, Done

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2009.

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• Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Intellectual, Culture

  1990 In The Independent, 24 Jan.

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• I guess I'm flattered that people think I can help get things done.

  Tony Dungy

  Thinking, People, Done

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• I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Done, Tweet

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• The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Life, Business

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• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Motivational, Done, Want

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• I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.

  John Boehner

  Big Families, Done, Grew Up

  "Boehner: Sometimes I'm 'Gestapo'" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. January 24, 2014.

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• When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Done, Want

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