Getting Things Done Quotes

• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Real, People, Done

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• If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 02, 2017

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing

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  No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jun 03, 2012

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• What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Life Changing

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Sep 08, 2015

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• The secret of getting things done is to act!

  Dante Alighieri

  Secret Love, Done, Getting High

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• All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.

  Tony Robbins

  Travel, Live Life, Motivational Workout

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• Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Struggle, Mean, Doe

  Twitter post from Apr 23, 2013

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• Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

  David Allen

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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  If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

  Toni Morrison

  Giving Up, Want, Ifs

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• When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

  Colleen Barrett

  Work, Memorable, Needs

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• you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

  Les Brown

  Education, Motivation, Writing

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• You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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• You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

  David Allen

  Steps, Action, Projects

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.58, Penguin

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• Well done is better than well said.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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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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  Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Motivational, Time, Art

  "Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.

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• If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2009

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• You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.

  David Allen

  Taken, Done, Outcomes

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.58, Penguin

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• The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Relax, Wonderland

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