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“Before trying to get more of everything done, get the most important things done first.” — Mark Horstman Copy Share Image
“We all know that the way to get something done is to give it to a busy person.” — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
“First I make a list of priorities: one, two, three, and so on. Then I cross out everything from three on down.” — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“Emotional control typically relies on various subtle tricks, such as changing how one thinks about the problem at hand, or distracting oneself. Hence,” — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“the British humorist Sir A. P. Herbert nicely described the conflicting set of symptoms: “Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again!” he announced.… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“We’ve seen parents successfully use a variant of this approach when an infant cries to be fed. Instead of immediately feeding the crying child,… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“We’ve said that willpower is humans’ greatest strength, but the best strategy is not to rely on it in all situations. Save it for… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“The ones who wrote about what they had already achieved had higher satisfaction with their current tasks and projects, as compared with the ones… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“Napoleon once summarized his idea of strategic military planning: “You engage, and then you wait and see.” By making contact with the enemy and… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“What stress really does, though, is deplete willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions.” — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man, “The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“Religion deals with the highest levels of meaning. As a result, it can interpret each life or each event in a context that runs… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“The page-a-day folks had done well and generally gotten tenure. The so-called “binge writers” fared far less well, and many had had their careers… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Our Cuba policy was a major obstacle to getting things done in the hemisphere and a source of tension around the world. — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
“I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.” — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Most of the time, excuses are made out of pure laziness. For people who are constantly making excuses...the negative energy it takes to do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger. — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
Startup culture fosters laughter, debate, and a passionate, non-politically-correct focus on getting things done. And this startup of culture is something entrepreneurs struggle to… — Clay Clark Copy Share Image
“Leadership is not always about getting things done “right.” Leadership is about getting things done through other people…When a leader can’t find someone to… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“This" Today, my love, leaves are thrashing the wind just as pedestrians are erecting again the buildings of this drab forbidding city, and our… — Ralph Angel Copy Share Image
