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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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• Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.

  Joel Spolsky

  Smart, Team, Simple

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• I think it does give me different stuff and I feel like television moves a lot faster than movie sets do. It's kinda like they have to get things done within a certain timeframe. So do movies but it seems like, as far as television is concerned, it just moves a helluva lot faster.

  Ludacris

  Moving, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Weed, Smart, Tv Shows

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patric Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

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• When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Baseball, Team, Kids

  "Jerry Bruckheimer Predicts U.S. Film Will No Longer Dominate Internationally". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 27, 2015.

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• A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, Helping Others, Leader

  "Simon Sinek: A Good Leader Serves". www.askmen.com.

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• Connecting with people, getting things done - that's what makes the travel worthwhile.

  Tim Finchem

  People, Done, Worthwhile

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• Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

  Jacques Barzun

  Moving, Done, Function

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• Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, People, Energy

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• Leadership is not always about getting things done 'right.' Leadership is about getting things done through other people.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Done, Getting Things Done

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.25, Multnomah

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• Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it's not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym and to stay up late to get a few more things done. That's short-sighted. Exercise and sleep are critical to having the physical and mental energy necessary to meet a challenge.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Sleep, Exercise, Challenges

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• Steady, sustained, and incremental spiritual progress produces the fruit of steadfastness-and helps us to reduce the disparity between what we know and what we do. Testimony is strengthened and conversion unto the Lord is deepened through small and simple things done well over time.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Simple, Progress

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• The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Fun, Impact

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• Yes, it seems that as the President (George W. Bush) comes to the end of his two terms, he's finally realized the best way to get things done for you, is for you to do it.

  Jon Stewart

  Two, President, Done

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• History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.

  Michelle Malkin

  Government, Done, Sake

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• Even though in principle we may "know better", we routinely succumb all the same to the incessant, often frantic and unexamined busyness of thinking we have to get somewhere else first before we can rest; thinking we need to get certain things done to feel we have accomplished something before we can be happy.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Firsts

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• All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one wants to do. One has nothing to say about the world, or society, or morals or politics or anything else. One just wants to get the damn thing done, you know? Kafka had it right when he said that the artist is the man who has nothing to say. It's true. You get the thing done, but you don't actually have anything to communicate, apart from the object itself.

  John Banville

  Beautiful, Mean, Artist

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• I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

  Louisa May Alcott

  War, Done, Want

  Louisa May Alcott, Kate Cumming (2008). “Blue, Gray and Red: Two Nurse's Views of the Civil War”, p.33, Fireship Press

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• Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Leader, Done

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• We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today.

  Todd Haynes

  Baby, Gay, Aids Epidemic

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Now the things done may not be evil or improper; they in fact may be good and godly (such as reading the Bible, praying, worshiping, preaching); but if they are not undertaken in a spirit of complete reliance upon the Holy Spirit, then the flesh is the source of all. The old creation is willing to do anything-even to submit to God - if only it is permitted to live and to be active.

  Watchman Nee

  Reading, Godly, Evil

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.40, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• The older I get, I'm definitely getting pulled towards the West Coast, because it's a different quality of life. New York is great when you're in your early 20s and you're running around and it's really fun, but it's a place for me to get things done.

  Erin Wasson

  Running, New York, Fun

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• It's perfectly legal in this country to change your mind. But when you're a governor, you have to admit it. You can't hide behind parliamentary tricks. That's the difference, and that's the kind of leader we need in the White House. Stop the Washington bull and let's get things done.

  Chris Christie

  Country, White, Differences

  Chris Christie at the 7th GOP debate in Des Moines, Iowa, www.washingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.

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• I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

  Hillary Clinton

  Roots, Progress, Done

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• In the very first debate I was asked am I a moderate or a progressive and I said I'm a progressive who likes to get things done. Cherry picking a quote here or there doesn't change my record of having fought for racial justice, having fought for kids rights, having fought the kind of inequities that fueled my interest in service in the first place going back to my days in the Children's Defense Fund.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Kids, Rights

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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