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• I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

  Rob Portman

  Thinking, Trying, Done

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• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  Walter Isaacson

  Done, Tough, Wonder

  "Walter Isaacson: the right man for the Jobs job". Interview with Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. November 26, 2011.

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• People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Clever, Memories

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  Cameron Diaz

  Mean, Facts, Needs

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 6, 2005.

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• If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

  Ari Fleischer

  Moving, President, Done

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• Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

  Confucius

  Achievement, Desire, Done

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Essentialism is not about how to get more things done, it's about how to the get the right things done. It doesn't mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.

  Greg McKeown

  Mean, Order, Energy

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• I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  History, Done, Want

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• What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.

  Isabel Paterson

  Doe, Done, World

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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• In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can’t be done. People who live with excuses have things that can’t be done hovering around them all the time.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Order, People, Hovering

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• Greatness is a lot of small things done well.

  Eric Thomas

  Greatness, Done, Wells

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• Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

  John Ruskin

  Morning, Short Life, Dawn

  "Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870".

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• It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.

  James M. Kouzes

  Common Purpose, People, Atmosphere

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2010). “The Leadership Challenge”, p.318, John Wiley & Sons

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• The achievement of great things though comes from the ability to manage yourselfvery, very, very well. Or at least well enough where you almost become compulsive about getting certain things done. You have to set a standard for yourself that's.very, very, very high and you have to manage your thoughts to where they need to be allow yourself to be successful, at what your trying to do.

  Kai Greene

  Successful, Achievement, Trying

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• I care about this state... and I feel a responsibility to get things done. If we stay healthy and play smart we can be a playoff team. I think we're on the right track.

  Steve Mariucci

  Smart, Team, Responsibility

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• I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Teaching, Opposites

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

  Sam Wyly

  Integrity, Team, People

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