Quotes on Getting Things Done

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can’t be done. People who live with excuses have things that can’t be done hovering around them all the time.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Well done is better than well said.