Getting Things Done Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done

  Timothy Geithner

  Fog, Choices, Done

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• Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.

  Seth Godin

  Artist, People, Connections

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.11, Penguin

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• We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

  Tony Abbott

  Games, Done, Blame

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• 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

  Believe, Views, Voice

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• My engineering training taught me to be a systems thinker. I looked at companies as "systems" and saw work as a system of tasks - that needed to be reengineered. I was also focused on operations, getting things done and built. My engineering training taught me to be a pragmatist.

  James A. Champy

  Training, Done, Thinker

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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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• If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.

  Eli Roth

  Fun, Done, Ifs

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• I want gaming to be something that everybody does, because they understand that games can be a real solution to problems and a real source of happiness. I want games to be something everybody learns how to design and develop, because they understand that games are a real platform for change and getting things done. And I want families, schools, companies, industries, cities, countries, and the whole world to come together to play them, because we’re finally making games that tackle real dilemmas and improve real lives.

  Jane McGonigal

  Country, Real, School

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• 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

  Jobs, People, Done

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• 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

  Issues, People, Done

  "What I've Learned: Representative Donna Edwards (D, Md.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

  Susan Orlean

  Procrastination, Thinking, Creative

  "Named" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 19, 2010.

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• 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

  Progress, Giants, Done

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.121, Arcade Publishing

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• From the beginning, God designed a world in which his image bearers - male and female together - were his A-Team for getting things done in the world. It was more than "wouldn't it be nice if men and women could get along better." God knew this was the way his world would work best and we would flourish as he intends. Men and women - together - in an alliance that received God's explicit blessing.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Nice, Blessing, Men

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Donald Trump gets things done. That's all there is, getting things done, accomplishing objectives. And you watch. The reaction to Trump is, "We can't do it that way. This is not the way we do it. That's not the way it's always been done." It's almost cliched, but that is what I expect is gonna happen, and the Democrats, I think, are gonna end up falling even flatter on their face than they have to date because they still are living in a state denial.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Fall, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When I make films I'm very intuitive; I'm instinctive. When you are shooting there's little time to think about abstract ideas, it's about getting things done, getting them right, and trying to channel the energies and get the best of whatever you have on your set. It's only once the film is finished that it's like, "Okay, let's try to figure out what happened." Try to figure out exactly what I did.

  Olivier Assayas

  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• . . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about his own corpulence and people loved it; took nothing from his inherent dignity. Lincoln eased tense moments with bawdy stories, and often poked fun at himself-and history honors him for this human quality. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Art, Fun, Communication

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• 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

  Country, Done, Want

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• I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

  Brian Clough

  Drinking, Beer, Done

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• Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

  Christine Quinn

  Done, Fists, Activist

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• 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

  Keys, Done, Execution

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons

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• I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining; I'm about getting things done.

  Christine Quinn

  Talking, Complaining, Done

  "Christine Quinn formally announces bid to be New York's first female mayor" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2013.

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• 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

  Civilization, Priorities, Important

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I mentioned it next day to the French purser, at whose table I was sitting. He nodded his agreement. "Stevenson is right," he said. "Indeed, if you will pardon my saying so, the idea applies particularly to you Americans. A lot of your countrymen keep so busy getting things done that they reach the end of their lives without ever having lived at all."

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Spiritual, Agreement, Ideas

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• Management is the art of getting things done through people.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Art, People, Done

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