Top Getting Things Done Quotes

Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.

Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

Why start if you are going to do a half-assed job anyway?

If your faith doesn't remove the mountain... Get to climbing.

While others were dreaming about it - I was getting it done.

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.

I wouldn't have wished for something hoping that I wouldn't get it. I wouldn't have wished for it knowing that I'd get it

You may not need to do it all, design it all or direct it all. But when it comes to making things you want to happen to happen you may well have to inspire and drive it all.

His success in public relations had been due primarily to his masterful utilization of a single public relations technique: identifying himself with a popular cause. This technique was especially adva...

The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done.

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

Reality always wins.

I have a plan, and I’m following it. I can focus on doing what is within my control, and I don’t need to be afraid of the results.

Secret to Productivity is single tasking: Focus only on one task at hand. And don't start another till that one is completely done

When everyone is hungry and waiting – when things need doing urgently and the clock is ticking - it’s often wiser to get cooking and present a ready-made dish they’ll find tasty to eat rather than get...

There is no " i " in team. But there are two in motivation.

Just going outside put me at risk of winding up dead or captured. If I let that daunt me, I'd never do anything.

Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.