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• When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

  Wendy Davis

  Strong, Done, Levels

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• A committee of three gets things done if two dont show up.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Two, Three, Done

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• Simply stated, power is the ability to get things done.

  Pat Heim

  Power, Done, Ability

  Pat Heim, Tammy Hughes, Susan K. Golant (2015). “Hardball for Women: Winning at the Game of Business: Third Edition”, p.117, Penguin

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• Passion isn't always available. The committed get things done even without it.

  Ron Kaufman

  Passion, Service Culture, Done

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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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• 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

  Party, Waiting, Looks

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• Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Smart, Moving, Done

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

  Mary Parker Follett

  Art, People, Done

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• Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Important, Done

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• The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Ideas, People

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• The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.

  William McFee

  Art, Done, Pleasure

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  America, Cabins, Valleys

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• 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

  Adversity, Commitment, Years

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• People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.

  John Maeda

  People, Focus, Done

  Twitter post from May 16, 2016

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• When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too.

  Richard Yates

  Reading, Writing, Order

  Richard Yates (2010). “Young Hearts Crying”, p.184, Random House

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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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• There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?

  Sam Altman

  Smart, Team, People

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• 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

  Who I Am, Wish, Needs

  "EXCLUSIVE! The Real Deal: An Interview With Kickstarter King Steve Grand". Boy Culture Interview, www.boyculture.com. February 28, 2014.

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• I've always been a reformer all the time I served in public office, and remain a reformer in Ohio, but I also know how to get things done. And I think it's important that, while we acknowledge the anxieties that Americans have, I think it's also important we realize at the end of the day, we need to have somebody who knows how to land a plane, and I've landed quite a few planes.

  John Kasich

  Thinking, Ohio, Land

  "John Kasich on rising in the New Hampshire polls; Sens. Ron Johnson and Chris Murhpy on how America should respond to Europe's refugee dilemma". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 13, 2015.

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• 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

  Taken, Long, Mad

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• A scarf has to be the most beautiful thing ever invented to wear! It's a winding, a continuity, an infinity! I love things that are endless, I hate them to stop. It's like order and disorder: I rather love disorder and things that move, it's a state where one gets more things done!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Beautiful, Hate, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that what happened is that we grew up with the Holocaust within us. It turned us into harsh, emotionally incapable people who have become blind to what they are doing to other people. A lot of times, Holocaust abuse justifies terrible things done to the Palestinians. And you have to realize that what is going on is terrible, and that we are responsible, and we have to take responsibility - even if we are not completely responsible.

  Eytan Fox

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  "Exploring Masculinity and Modern Views of Israeli’s, Eytan Fox Discusses 'Walk on Water'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2005.

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• Prayer and hard work are a pretty good one-two punch to get things done.

  Rick Santorum

  Prayer, Hard Work, Two

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.

  Richard Mitchell

  Educational, Taken, Ignorance

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• The military taught me that teamwork is important, which is why I work with both Republicans and Democrats in Congress to get things done. It also taught me that everyone brings a different perspective, whether I agree with it or not, which helps me bridge the divide in Congress.

  Steve Stivers

  Teamwork, Military, Bridges

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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