Get It Done Quotes

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.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn’t be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself “I’ll just get it done this weekend.”

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

It’s a bad day when you don’t get the work done that you need to get done or you don’t get it done to the satisfaction.

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

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.

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.

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

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.

I think people often miss the fact that things often start in a swashbuckling like low cost just get it done kind of way, even when they grow into these iconic brands.

There’s just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

I worked on three independent movies in close succession and I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship.

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.

It’s all about chemistry. Talent alone won’t get it done.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.