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• Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

  David Allen

  Motivation, Impact, Done

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2015

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• If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.

  Ralph Nader

  Powerful, Responsibility, Opportunity

  "Making Government and Business Accountable". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 16, 1991.

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• The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

  Paul Samuelson

  Kings, Decision, Use

  1948 Economics.

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• It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right.

  Arthur Twining Hadley

  Motivational, Done, Enough

  Arthur Twining Hadley (1807). “Baccalaureate Addresses, and Other Talks on Kindred Themes”, p.90

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• So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate.

  Joel Spolsky

  Progress, Important, Done

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• I don't think intimidated is the word. I definitely get excited by it. I don't want to let anybody down. I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect. I do feel it when people hold me to high expectations.

  Nicki Minaj

  Thinking, Perfect, Expectations

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

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• After you do one thing, you've got one thing done.

  Mike Caro

  Done, One Thing

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• One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Worthwhile Things, People

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• Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Helping Others

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• I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, Men, Evil

  Teresa of Avila (2013). “The Interior Castle”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving .

  Kevin Cashman

  Leader, Inspire, Done

  Kevin Cashman (2012). “The Pause Principle: Step Back to Lead Forward”, p.4, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Failure, Two

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Beyond Talent: Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots, when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people.

  Scott McClellan

  Thinking, Reality, People

  "Ports Showdown Averted, White House Relieved". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2006.

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• My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Life, Done, Way

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• For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need to think about designing the types of institutions we need to get things done in this rapidly accelerating world.

  John Seely Brown

  Thinking, Design, Needs

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• Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.

  Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington

  Trying, Climate, Lobbyists

  "Sandbagged: Dealing a blow to carbon trading" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2008.

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• Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

  Clifford Geertz

  Names, Numbers, Done

  "Clifford Geertz on Ethnography and Social Construction" by Gary A. Olson, Journal of Advanced Composition 11.2, hypergeertz.jku.at. 1991.

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• It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Nba, Over You

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• The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

  Robert Breault

  Order, Done, Lists

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• The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

  Bill McKibben

  Peace, Technology, Community

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• Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done

  Timothy Geithner

  Fog, Choices, Done

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• The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.

  Simon Sinek

  Responsibility, Giving, Done

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2012

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• I have seen flowers come in stony places
  And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
  And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
  So I trust, too.

  John Masefield

  Horse, Flower, Men

  John Masefield, Peter Vansittart (1984). “John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917”, Constable & Company Limited

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• What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

  Hyman Rickover

  Jobs, Attitude, Organization

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

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• When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done

  Tom Reed

  Thinking, Trying, Groups

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