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• I'm still kind of nerdy about video games, but I've had to take a little bit of a step back. I was really not getting a lot of things done in life because I was playing so much Destiny. I loved it, but I've gotta prioritize.

  Zachary Levi

  Destiny, Games, Steps

  "Zachary Levi on Nerd HQ’s Return to Comic-Con and Who’s Coming with Him". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2016.

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• Invest in helping people know what matters to them and who matters to them (and why), and encourage them to continually experiment with how they get things done in ways the serve their interests and yours as an employer.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  What Matters, People, Done

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I decided to not just be about protesting or speaking out against certain things, but actually trying to get things done. That has been tremendously fulfilling for me.

  Rob Reiner

  Trying, Done, Certain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Hillary Clinton] has been a woman in the public eye for decades now. She's been insulted, demeaned, and attacked for all this time, and she still wants to lead this country - and fight for the things she believes in. Not only do we agree on the issues, but I really think she's the right person to get things done.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Country, Believe, Eye

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• An entrepreneur... is a person of action, one who possesses an unnatural overload of two attributes: optimism and determination. Because entrepreneurs are optimistic, they don't see barriers; because they're determined, they never quit. Individuals who posses extreme amounts of optimism and determination get things done.

  Jim Clifton

  Determination, Optimistic, Two

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• I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you're somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you're pretty much going to know what's going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.

  Alan Bishop

  Needs, Done, Language

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• I do think that it's really important for leaders of countries to be very clear and careful in the statements they make because their words are weighed extremely carefully by other countries, and you have to create a continuity of seriousness and of credibility in order to be able to be taken seriously and get things done.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Young people are more likely to be idealistic and think that radical change is both necessary and possible. They may not yet be stuck in the routinized and sterile life that work and age often bring, nor stuck in any kind of rigid way of thinking. They have great energy and can get things done.

  Michael Yates

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.

  Kofi Annan

  Done, Obstacles, Intimate

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Intellectual, Culture

  1990 In The Independent, 24 Jan.

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• 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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• I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.

  Nicki Minaj

  Perfect, Done, Want

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• Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Mean, Fighting, Fire

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• Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

  Wilson Mizner

  Achievement, Desire, Looks

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• I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

  Elon Musk

  Creating, Sake, Done

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

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• 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 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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• 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'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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or 'reality.' For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's the 'the truth,' then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life Changing, Believe, Reality

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.134, Bantam

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• Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.

  William Feather

  Important, Business Success, Done

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