Get It Done Quotes - Page 3

• Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

  Ralph Marston

  Done, Waste, Wasting Time

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• I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Believe, Technology, Government

  "Q&A: Michael Bloomberg on Free Wi-Fi, Crime and Higher Office". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.wired.com. December 20, 2007.

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• At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

  Tracy Kidder

  Book, Writing, Good Day

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• We want you to be ready with your personal storehouses filled with at least a year's supply. You don't argue why it cannot be done; you just plan to organize and get it done.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Religious, Years, Self Reliance

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• It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

  David Fincher

  Bad Day, Needs, Done

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• Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.

  Ray Bradbury

  Phones, Next Day, People

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• Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

  Tom Shadyac

  Done, Might, Belief

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• I support building a soccer stadium in the District of Columbia, and I support investing public dollars to get it done.

  Muriel Bowser

  Soccer, Support, Dollars

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• There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Cameras, Actors, Done

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

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• We can't wait around for Superman to come in here and save the town, save the team. It's up to us to get it done.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Team, Waiting, Towns

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• Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.

  Kerry Stokes

  Honesty, Business, Block

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• I think the team will think this was an O.K. year. Some guys had career years, but the reality is that we didn't get it done at the end of the day.

  Mike Young

  Team, Reality, Thinking

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• Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible.

  Cate Blanchett

  Makeup, Wish, Done

  "Meet the Real Cate Blanchett". Interview with Bobbi Brown, in.style.yahoo.com. September 17, 2014.

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• There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

  James Taylor

  Writing, Phones, Done

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

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• For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.

  Richard Simmons

  Workout, Prayer, Blessing

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2015

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• One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Horse, Stress, Thinking

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• I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all kind of formed a story in my head, and I really wanted to be a published author when I was 10, but I had a hard time writing a novel when I was 10. So I decided to wait until I was little bit older and then get it done.

  Chris Colfer

  Mom, Writing, Kids

  "Chris Colfer Shipping 'Bits Of My Soul' With His Novel". Interview with Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. July 16, 2012.

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• If you do cardio one day and the next day you can do weights, do it that way. If you need to do it at night or in the morning, do it that way. Whatever you need to get it done, just get it done.

  LL Cool J

  Morning, Night, Next Day

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• In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.

  Andrew Bogut

  People, Laid Back, Culture

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

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• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  Gary Hamel

  Earthquakes, Yesterday, Valleys

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• It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Men, Thinking

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• I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Tattoo, Mom, Years

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• When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Couple, Tired, Hair

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• Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Life, Beautiful, Work

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• It's all about chemistry. Talent alone won't get it done.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Done, Talent

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