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• It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right.

  Arthur Twining Hadley

  Motivational, Done, Enough

  Arthur Twining Hadley (1807). “Baccalaureate Addresses, and Other Talks on Kindred Themes”, p.90

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• The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

  Paul Samuelson

  Kings, Decision, Use

  1948 Economics.

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• If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.

  Ralph Nader

  Powerful, Responsibility, Opportunity

  "Making Government and Business Accountable". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 16, 1991.

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• Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

  David Allen

  Motivation, Impact, Done

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2015

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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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• Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.

  William Feather

  Important, Business Success, Done

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• It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or 'reality.' For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's the 'the truth,' then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life Changing, Believe, Reality

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.134, Bantam

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• Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, People, Smoking

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.198, Canongate Books

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• The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

  David Lloyd George

  Done, Finest, Eloquence

  Speech at Paris Peace Conference, 18 Jan. 1919, in The Times 20 Jan. 1919

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• Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Democracy, Done, Nations

  Archibald MacLeish (1941). “The American cause”

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• Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

  Dee Hock

  Done, Lists, Careful

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• Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Gold, Democracy, Done

  Archibald MacLeish (1941). “The American cause”

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• Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.

  Colin Powell

  Loyalty, Integrity, Ego

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• I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

  Brian Clough

  Drinking, Beer, Done

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• I don't think intimidated is the word. I definitely get excited by it. I don't want to let anybody down. I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect. I do feel it when people hold me to high expectations.

  Nicki Minaj

  Thinking, Perfect, Expectations

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Worthwhile Things, People

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• Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Helping Others

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• What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

  Hyman Rickover

  Jobs, Attitude, Organization

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

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• I have seen flowers come in stony places
  And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
  And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
  So I trust, too.

  John Masefield

  Horse, Flower, Men

  John Masefield, Peter Vansittart (1984). “John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917”, Constable & Company Limited

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• The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.

  Simon Sinek

  Responsibility, Giving, Done

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2012

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• Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done

  Timothy Geithner

  Fog, Choices, Done

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• The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

  Bill McKibben

  Peace, Technology, Community

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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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• It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Nba, Over You

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• Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

  Clifford Geertz

  Names, Numbers, Done

  "Clifford Geertz on Ethnography and Social Construction" by Gary A. Olson, Journal of Advanced Composition 11.2, hypergeertz.jku.at. 1991.

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