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

  Larry Winget

  Done, Persons

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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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• There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

  John Wooden

  High Standards, Done, Littles

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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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• Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved... To love a person without any conditions, without any expectations. Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace. To love, it is necessary to give. To give, it is necessary to be free from selfishness.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Great Love, Expectations

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• I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power?... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'

  John Travolta

  Believe, Power, Trying

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• Michele Fiore is a fighter for her constituents who gets things done in Carson City. I can always count on Michele to be a passionate advocate for her district who will make the tough votes for our future generations instead of her next election. I hope you will join me in supporting Michele Fiore for Assembly District 4.

  Brian Sandoval

  Cities, Generations, Passionate

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• The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.

  Seth Godin

  People, Done, Problem

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

  Stephen Mansfield

  Yield, Done, Sporadic

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations.... This is the way we get things done in America. One man tells another, does what he can, till the sum of these efforts grows into a national aspiration-a precious goal. Then occurs our miracle of democracy: because the groundwork has been surely laid, the goal is already within our grasp.

  Newton B. Drury

  Determination, Moving, Men

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