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• Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

  John Ruskin

  Morning, Short Life, Dawn

  "Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870".

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• The achievement of great things though comes from the ability to manage yourselfvery, very, very well. Or at least well enough where you almost become compulsive about getting certain things done. You have to set a standard for yourself that's.very, very, very high and you have to manage your thoughts to where they need to be allow yourself to be successful, at what your trying to do.

  Kai Greene

  Successful, Achievement, Trying

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• I care about this state... and I feel a responsibility to get things done. If we stay healthy and play smart we can be a playoff team. I think we're on the right track.

  Steve Mariucci

  Smart, Team, Responsibility

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• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  Cameron Diaz

  Mean, Facts, Needs

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 6, 2005.

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• People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Clever, Memories

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

  Bette Davis

  Couple, Age, Done

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• Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

  Confucius

  Achievement, Desire, Done

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Teaching, Opposites

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

  Ari Fleischer

  Moving, President, Done

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• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  Walter Isaacson

  Done, Tough, Wonder

  "Walter Isaacson: the right man for the Jobs job". Interview with Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. November 26, 2011.

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• I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

  Rob Portman

  Thinking, Trying, Done

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• I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done.

  Rob Portman

  Thinking, People, President

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• In a country as large and diverse as America, compromise is how we get things done. It isn't always pretty, but we have to find solutions to our problems that, at the end of the day, most people can live with.

  Mark Udall

  Country, America, People

  "Calling It Like I See It: Congress, the Tea Party, and the Way Forward" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2011.

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• In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

  Sam Wyly

  Integrity, Team, People

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• What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

  Tristan Wilds

  Beautiful, Real, People

  "Getting to the End of The Wire with Tristan Wilds". Interview with Jon Hein, www.tvguide.com. March 3, 2008.

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• Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.

  Orrin Woodward

  Done, Littles, Little Things

  Twitter post from Mar 11, 2016

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• I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Husband, Moving, Piano

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