Top 1200 Getting Things Done Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

You're always going to feel disrespected because you're getting traded. Evidently, you ain't doing something right or you ain't getting it done or they don't believe in you.

Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.

For me, working in the fashion industry is about getting to meet the minds behind the brands. Sure, there are nice dinners, events and shows - even the occasional freebie - but the best part is getting to sit down with and talk to people that have done great things. You quickly realize that no matter who you're talking to, how famous, brilliant or wealthy they are, they are just "people."

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.

None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.

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

One of the cool things about getting to audition for things on short notice is that it teaches you to memorize efficiently. So I've never been afraid of getting text down quickly.

You can't just think that you will get a job for no good reason... And I think that the other part is you have to work your way up, you know I did a lot of Xeroxing and getting coffee...I always did what I was asked to do. I delivered. People knew that I would get things done and get them done well. And that is a big part of our resumes, are based on being responsible and being willing to do what needed to be done.

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

Whether you agree or disagree with Barack Obama, he is getting some things done, though not in the way most Americans would prefer or what is actually best for them.

Getting help for my issues was one of the hardest things I've ever done, because when I get dangerously sad or manic, those feelings seek to perpetuate themselves.

Employees get things done. Partners get things done done. But owners get things done done done.

I think Ive done the best I could have done. But I keep wanting to play better, go further. There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I havent yet done. When I was younger I thought maybe Id reached that peak. But Im 86 now, and if I make it through to next month, Ill be 87. And now I know it can never be perfect, it can never be exactly what it should be, so you got to keep going further, getting better.

There's no question that, in nearly seven weeks of nightly demonstrations, the police have done many things right, and they've done some things wrong as well.

So many of us who've been thinking about the ecological crisis have had this horrible creeping feeling, like nothing was getting done and it was getting worse.

I moved out to L.A. in July and Hot L Baltimore started in September or October. So I had done a few things. I'd done a Mary [Tyler Moore]. I'd done a Waltons. I hadn't done a Rhoda yet I don't think.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.

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.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.

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.

Trump is trying to do a lot of really big things. And he's actually getting a lot of big things done.

I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.

I'm not saying Brad Stevens should not be getting praise for the job that he's done, because I feel like he's done an outstanding job. I'm just saying the amount of praise he's getting, you'd think he won a championship or two. They don't give Steve Kerr that much love. Come on.

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

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.

There will always be people saying things can't be done. And history shows that time and time again things 'couldn't be done' and they were done.

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

From politics to getting replaced by another actor or not getting references, I'm done with all of it.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you're not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you're satisfied and make you happy, you're not getting stronger. You're staying where you're at. Either you're getting better, or you're getting worse. You're not staying the same.

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.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

A lot of what is preventing us from getting things done on the federal level is that there is too much influence from special interests over members of Congress.

Mr. Bachchan is too used to getting things done his way. I had always thought of him as an elegant, articulate, sophisticated, refined gentleman. What a let-down he was! What a shame!

In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions, often with limited information.

I have done some pretty dumb things. I am not going to lie. I see the things I have done. And I have done some dumb things.

Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.

The Seekers have done most things that you'd want to do and when we broke up in the '60s it was partly because we sort of felt we'd done all the things that you could do. There was nothing new.

When I make films I'm very intuitive; I'm instinctive. When you are shooting there's little time to think about abstract ideas, it's about getting things done, getting them right, and trying to channel the energies and get the best of whatever you have on your set. It's only once the film is finished that it's like, "Okay, let's try to figure out what happened." Try to figure out exactly what I did.

I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.

There was plays where I had to do certain things, but I wouldn't even know who caught the ball because I was so focused on getting my job done.

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

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining; I'm about getting things done.

I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.

Every Republican will tell you they are for school choice, shrinking government, cutting the government workforce and getting rid of Common Core. But talk is cheap. Talk is just talk. I haven't just talked about these things. I've actually done these things.

In city government, it's about getting things done, not being judged on a scorecard of whether you said yes or no on a certain thing.

I look at sports entertainment/professional wrestling, whichever you want to call it, I look at it as never done. You're never done learning or getting better or listening, and never done honing your skill.

I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.

I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots, when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people.

Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.

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

I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.

For me, when I'm not working, the day goes by so fast. I never have enough time - getting a manicure, getting a pedicure, getting my workout in, making sure that I ate healthy. Those things can become treacherous to the mind.

Women are focused on getting things done and bring fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to a political system that's crying out for change.

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.