Quotes About Get It Done

“The job is the job, and I have no choice but to get it done. Bitching about it will only distract me, and let's be honest, has bitching about anything ever helped anybody?”

— Shane Kuhn

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

— Bruce Lee

“If your boss asks you to do a task ... You'll stay late for work to make sure it's done. You'll be confident that your boss wouldn't have asked you if he/she didn't trust that you could do it. You wouldn't allow anyone or anything to distract you. No matter how hard it is, it's not an option, you'll find a way to make it happen. You'll not only find time, you'll try to get it done before the deadline. So, why when God gives you a task ... you allow fear to consume you, find excuses, allow distractions, care about what people think and assume it's impossible? If He gave it to you, He trusts you CAN get it done. Yes, they'll be distractions. And no it's not going to be easy, but know that it is POSSIBLE!!! Answer the call!”

— Yvonne Pierre

“You don't want to wait for Owen?"
Ryder just sneered at him. "Afraid of a little sweat, sweetheart?"
"Sunstroke maybe."
"Find your balls, and let's go get it done.”

— Nora Roberts

“Anytime you announce your dream; two things happen, it's either it motivates you to get it done or the feeling of accomplishment sets in and discourages you from pursuing it”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

“I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know? It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy.”

— Afrojack

“I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.”

— Allen Iverson

“Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!”

— Rachael Ray

“They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.”

— Markus Zusak

“I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.”

— Gary Hamel

“Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.”

— Laura Miller

“That's the one thing I probably don't like about politics - the focus on the individual. To me, it's more important to get it done, whether I get the credit for it or not.”

— Grace Meng

“If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don't, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.”

— Ilana Glazer

“This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.”

— Jackie Robinson

“I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can get it done. Just because you're African American, you still can touch the masses. And that's my goal. I won't stop until that goal is continued to push it hard to the world that we are the universal person as well.”

— Cory Hardrict

“At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.”

— Tracy Kidder

“I think that terriers are not really the prettiest dogs, but they're scrappy and they're loyal, and they get it done, you know what I mean?”

— Michael Raymond-James

“Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop. An”

— Brian Tracy

“There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.”

— James Taylor

“I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.”

— Joss Whedon

“Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get it done, I'll jot it down, but I never write a rap out, ever.”

— Big Sean

“I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.”

— Laila Ali

“The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.”

— Xavier Becerra

“Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.”

— Ralph Marston

“I want my movies to be commercial, fun thrill rides but I also want them to have substance to them. The fun part is knowing how to roll up your sleeves and get it done.”

— Ric Roman Waugh

“I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule.”

— Ridley Scott

“Women could get it done ... That's why we need more women to run so we have more women in power to make decisions.”

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

“On the X-Men films, people are always throwing out ideas and trying to get the shot to look the best and make the most sense, and to get it done efficiently. Everybody collaborates and everybody is very open to new ideas.”

— Evan Peters

“We can't wait around for Superman to come in here and save the town, save the team. It's up to us to get it done.”

— Jermaine O'Neal

“I've been around the government system and believe me it's built to spend. You've got to change the system, otherwise it's like asking a cultivator to do what a combine does, it just doesn't fit, it won't get it done. You've got to change the system.”

— Sam Brownback

“I want a movie to be satisfying for an audience. That sense of having to get it done, no matter what cost, is what I like.”

— Sam Worthington

“We may still have as many questions after the game as we did before the game. But that's OK. Good teams answer their questions as they go, but they do it with wins. We didn't get it done last week - we found a way to get it done this week.”

— Greg Schiano

“I think the team will think this was an O.K. year. Some guys had career years, but the reality is that we didn't get it done at the end of the day.”

— Mike Young

“It's got to be done and done quickly, so let's get it done.”

— Henry H. Arnold

“It's all about chemistry. Talent alone won't get it done.”

— Brett Favre

“In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.”

— D.A. Wallach

“Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to do months in advance. If something's taking me a little bit longer to research, that's not okay. I can't take longer. I have to just get it done.”

— Karina Longworth

“You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.”

— Sam Altman

“It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.”

— Matt Damon

“You know something is important when you're willing to let someone else take the credit if that's what it takes to get it done.”

— Seth

“They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

“It's just one more win. I don't give a [bleep] how we do it, as long as we get it done. Did I say [bleep]? I'm sorry.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

“Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.”

— James Surowiecki

“When God calls you to do something, He provides everything it takes to get it done.”

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“You're not ever going to get it done. Every time you evaluate contrast and conclude and then line up your Energy and allow it into your experience ... at the same time you are achieving the result that you intended, you also achieve a new perspective from which to intend. You can't stand still. In every moment, there is a whole new set of stuff ... new ideas, new desires being born.”

— Esther Hicks

“I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.”

— Bill Gates

“"Shouda, coulda, and woulda" won't get it done.”

— Pat Riley

“The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?”

— Garry Winogrand

“Don't let people interfere with you. Boot 'em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.”

— Ray Bradbury

“The more you have to do, the more you have only NOW to get it done. That's why busy people get the most done.”

— Robert G. Allen