Things Done Quotes - Page 8

• The real world doesn't reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Real, People, Done

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• Be the person others can count on to get things done

  Larry Winget

  Done, Persons

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• Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Sports, Workout

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

  Samuel Pepys

  Kings, Men, Done

  'Diary' 21 July 1662

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• Life is rich it's full of gifts-the more you have the more there is to share. You know its men with small souls who think there isn't enough to go around. They fight to keep their little grasp on their tiny piece of the world and they're always angry because they're never satisfied. They're cursed with a hole they can never fill. They may get things done but they can never keep what they've achieved.

  Phyllis Curott

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Sports, Done

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• Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Power, Political, Needs

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• Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards

  Bram Stoker

  Men, Long, Done

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

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• Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Done, Patience Is A Virtue, Impatience

  Chelsea Clinton (2015). “It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!”, p.264, Penguin

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• No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.

  Ulpian

  Want, Done, Injustice

  Corpus Iuris Civilis Digests, bk. 47, ch. 10, sec. 1. Commonly quoted as "Volenti non fit iniuria" (To a willing person it is not wrong).

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• One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

  Patrick Collison

  Technology, Clouds, Important

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• In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign citizens, who have finally broken free of worshipping a ruling class and begun thinking for themselves. Democracy can seem frustrating and messy at times, but it delivers.

  David Brin

  Thinking, Self, Civilization

  David Brin, Matthew Woodring Stover (2013). “Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time”, p.48, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Caring, Government, Jail

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Nov 07, 2013

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• ... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.

  Neal Shusterman

  Girl, Goal, Weakness

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• Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.

  Stephen Mansfield

  Yield, Done, Sporadic

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• The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

  Marianne Moore

  Always Trying, People, Done

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

  Octavio Paz

  Progress, Giants, Done

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.121, Arcade Publishing

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• I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

  Bob Dole

  Trying, Done, Helping

  "Bob Dole: Great American" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. June 25, 2012.

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• For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

  Cai Guo-Qiang

  Artist, Essence, Influence And Power

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• Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

  Donna Edwards

  Issues, People, Done

  "What I've Learned: Representative Donna Edwards (D, Md.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 15, 2010.

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• It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Humble, Men, Differences

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.255, Cosimo, Inc.

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