Things Done Quotes - Page 5

• The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And we see many things done by the Gods to prevent it from making mistakes and to heal it when it has made them. Arts and sciences, curses and prayers, sacrifices and initiations, laws and constitutions, judgments and punishments, all came into existence for the sake of preventing souls from sinning; and when they are gone forth from the body, Gods and spirits of purification cleanse them of their sins.

  Sallust

  Art, Prayer, Mistake

  10 Copy quote

• . . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about his own corpulence and people loved it; took nothing from his inherent dignity. Lincoln eased tense moments with bawdy stories, and often poked fun at himself-and history honors him for this human quality. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Art, Fun, Communication

  5 Copy quote

• When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too.

  Richard Yates

  Reading, Writing, Order

  Richard Yates (2010). “Young Hearts Crying”, p.184, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church 'on the job training' in overcoming the forces hostile to God.

  Paul Billheimer

  Jobs, Prayer, Giving

  16 Copy quote

• I will get things done for America.... Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground.... Faced with adversity, I will persevere. I will carry this commitment with me this year. I am an Americorps volunteer.

  William J. Clinton

  Adversity, Commitment, Years

  4 Copy quote

• In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  America, Cabins, Valleys

  4 Copy quote

• The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

  William J. Clinton

  Trying, Done, Conservative

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Politics is not really different from marriage. You cannot get things done in your relationship if you tell your wife: Look, if you haven't made the bed and if you don't get the food on the table, I will go and just hire someone and you will become irrelevant. That is not how you make a marriage work.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Wife, Done, Tables

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Important, Done

  7 Copy quote

• You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.

  Barack Obama

  Done, Just Listen

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 3, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don't think they want more gridlock. I don't think they want more partisanship. I don't think they want more obstruction. They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel-cage match to see who comes out alive. That's not what they want. They sent us to Washington to work together, to get things done, and to solve the problems that they're grappling with every single day.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

  Barack Obama's remarks at GOP House Issues Conference in Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 29, 2010.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.

  Paul Cezanne

  Done, Studios

  26 Copy quote

• The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play.

  John Cleese

  Play, Curiosity, Done

  7 Copy quote

• The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Mean, Competition, Desire

  10 Copy quote

• If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.

  Woodrow Wyatt

  Running, Done, Enthusiasm

  7 Copy quote

• Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Children, Parent, Done

  4 Copy quote

• Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I mentioned it next day to the French purser, at whose table I was sitting. He nodded his agreement. "Stevenson is right," he said. "Indeed, if you will pardon my saying so, the idea applies particularly to you Americans. A lot of your countrymen keep so busy getting things done that they reach the end of their lives without ever having lived at all."

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Spiritual, Agreement, Ideas

  14 Copy quote

• What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.

  Franz Cizek

  Beautiful, Art, Children

  15 Copy quote

• Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

  Aravind Adiga

  Men, Done, World

  Aravind Adiga (2011). “Last Man in Tower”, p.229, Atlantic Books Ltd

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Justice, Done, Movement

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.143, Sheba Blake Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're defining the competitive landscape... of who can provide the most supportive services that make life easier, keep track of things, that complement human memory in a way that helps us get things done.

  Eric Horvitz

  Memories, Track, Supportive

  4 Copy quote

• Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Wise, Mean, People

  "Modern Feminism & Spirituality". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.eomega.org. May 8, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.

  Max Barry

  Simple, People, Use

  Max Barry (2003). “Jennifer Government: A Novel”, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Civilization, Priorities, Important

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source