Things done Quotes · Page 2

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

— Mary Parker Follett

The great contest for the presidency is about the future, who can lead, who can get things done.

— George W. Bush

There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in…

— Bill Drayton

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

— Charles Schumer

Passion isn't always available. The committed get things done even without it.

— Ron Kaufman

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing…

— Louisa May Alcott

I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

— Samuel Pepys

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Stephen Mansfield

It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get…

— James M. Kouzes

The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church…

— Paul Billheimer

A scarf has to be the most beautiful thing ever invented to wear! It's a winding, a continuity, an infinity! I love…

— Sonia Rykiel

I think it does give me different stuff and I feel like television moves a lot faster than movie sets do. It's…

— Ludacris

I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots when the broader reality is that we…

— Scott McClellan

A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate,…

— Jon Stewart

Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it's not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym…

— Gretchen Rubin

Michele Fiore is a fighter for her constituents who gets things done in Carson City. I can always count on Michele to…

— Brian Sandoval

Whatever I'm already doing becomes enhanced when I smoke pot. It can also be demotivating, because if I'm not doing anything and…

— Chrissie Hynde

In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of…

— Richard Mitchell

The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And…

— Sallust

Sometimes I catch myself doing something that I've already done. The more I've done, the more that's likely to happen. Then I…

— Bruce Cockburn

I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their…

— Barack Obama

I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in…

— Hillary Clinton

A lot of great thinkers- like Einstein and Newton- come up with their best ideas when they're young because they don't yet…

— George Lucas

My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then…

— Laura Schlessinger

I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that…

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to…

— John C. Maxwell

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.

— Seth Godin

In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.

— Charlie Pierce

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

— Hyman Rickover

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done…

— Emma Goldman

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done

— Peter Criss

Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

— Bill McKibben

The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the…

— Paul Samuelson

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

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

— Nellie L. McClung

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for…

— Marianne Moore