Things Done Quotes - Page 11

• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Rights, Done, Politics

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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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• Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

  Anna Paquin

  People, Done, Stubborn

  "Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer Interview True Blood Season 4". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 01, 2011.

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• Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Motivational, Apology, Criticism

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.7, University of Toronto Press

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• I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, New York, Humorous

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

  Langston Hughes

  Done, Way

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes”, p.50, University of Missouri Press

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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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• I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.

  Christine Quinn

  Use, Done, Should

  "Christine Quinn Takes New York" by Lisa Depaulo, www.elle.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.

  Christine Quinn

  Done, Way, Facts

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• I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.

  Christine Quinn

  Personality, Done, Want

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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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  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

  Motivational, Time, Art

  "Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.

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• I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

  Henry Rollins

  Party, Talking, Drug

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

  David Rockefeller

  Art, Past, Done

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

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• These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.

  Lucy Powell

  Government, Skills, People

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• People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix.

  River Phoenix

  One Direction, Phoenix, People

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

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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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• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Broken, Tea

  "Paul thumps Grayson; Conway edges Mongiardo" by Jack Brammer, www.kentucky.com. May 19, 2010.

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• The secret of getting things done is to act!

  Dante Alighieri

  Secret Love, Done, Getting High

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• Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.

  Alan Shearer

  Yesterday, Neat And Tidy, Want

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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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• Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Support, Political

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.

  Bill Drayton

  People, Done, Patterns

  "Celebrating The Life Of A Changemaker: Steve Muthee" by Michael Chertok, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2014.

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• I do everything halfway,
  a thing of which adults disapprove,
  but things done halfway
  are deceptive, and in a class of
  their own – for instance,
  the sun is really twice its size.

  Richard Hell

  Class, Adults, Done

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• People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only those things done for the sake of Allah are the ‘religious’ things. Everything that is done for other than Allah – however ‘religious’ it may seem – is a worldly act… If he earns thousands of pounds to support his family and to spend for the cause of Allah, seeking only Allah’s pleasure, it is a highly spiritual act.

  Khurram Murad

  Spiritual, Religious, People

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