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If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical. — Woodrow Wyatt

Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done. — Peter Ustinov

Considering some of the things I've done, touching another man's dick is not exactly going to send me into a moral meltdown. — Santino Hassell

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done. — Gene Hackman

I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person. — DMX

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script. — George Michael

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of. — Sugar Ray Leonard

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them — Benjamin Jowett

Well, you really made a mess of things,' he says. 'I'm not even done,' I tell him. — Suzanne Collins

Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water. — Tarryn Fisher

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done. — Boots Riley

Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do. — Anthony Trollope

When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done. — John Wooden

If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done. — Eli Roth

How would you have done things differently if you were not afraid? — Ruchi Sanghvi

We always regret the things we have not done, not the ones we actually had the courage to try. — Christine Pope

I did things I should not have done. But people make mistakes, especially at my age, when you feel you are so smart, but in fact you are an asshole. — Martina Hingis

I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose. — Paul Williams

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work. — Ayelet Shaked

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible. — Harvey MacKay

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. — Ayn Rand

No, Harry, I have done too many dreadful things in my life. I am not going to do any more. I began my good actions yesterday. — Oscar Wilde

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done. — George Eliot

Why not thank him for all the things he has done in your life that have brought you joy? — Barbara Kois

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools. — Benjamin Disraeli

I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do. — George Lucas

We're just hacking away at things and not thinking a whole lot about what the hacking's going to look like when we're done hacking. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done. — Baron De Montesquieu

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morning Prayer. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.{21} — Various

It's not fair. People claim to know you through the things you've done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself. — Hannah Kent

I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not. — Lucille Ball

TV actress Lucille Ball once remarked, 'I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I've not done.' This — Ashwin Sanghi

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you. — Angela Thirkell

Senselessly pontificating about things does not get anything done, doing something about it does. — Murad S. Shah

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses. — Tony Abbott

It's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with. — Charles Bukowski

It was men, not God, who had done those things... — Kameron Hurley

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself. — Sally Pearson

until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done. — Joan D. Chittister

Regret for things we have done can be tempered by time, it is regret for things we have not done that is inconsolable. — Sydney J. Harris

It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right. — Arthur Twining Hadley

You do not exist in this world to get things done. You exist to glorify God by doing good to others. — Tim Challies

Fame and glory belong to those who are the first to achieve things, not those who only think about it or do it after it's been done. — Nabil N. Jamal

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities. — Alan Cohen

I'm not usually comfortable to talk about things I haven't done yet. — Louis Garrel

Getting things done is not always about managing time; It is about finding that magical time of the day when you work at your best level — Vivek Naik

Other people labeled things impossible not because they couldn't be done, but because no one was doing them. — Gary Kinder

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun. — Bob Dylan

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done. — Sophocles

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done. — George Weigel

I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not — Lucille Ball

I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done. — Gary Sinise

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast. — Dennis Potter

A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said. — Henry David Thoreau

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized. — Patrice Leconte

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done. — Barry Diller

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result. — Elspeth Huxley

He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them — Joan Didion

I'm not sure what [my latest works are] about but I'm convinced they're the best things I've done and I'm going to the world's best museums with them. — Mark Kostabi

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of. — Andrew Solomon

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Jesus is not glorified by our "doing" things for Him. He is glorified by our resting in and receiving what He's done for us. — Tullian Tchividjian

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before. — Martin Freeman

I'm not under the influence anymore. Much. Even if I was, I've done things way worse than you that I've never regretted. — Abigail Roux

In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done — Michael Scott

I would rather regret the things that I have done than those I have not. — Garikai Nhongo

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women. — Peter Zumthor

Guillermo was lonely and serviceable and always rushed in to do the things one wanted in a way one did not want them done. — Sybille Bedford

I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved. — John Paul Warren

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well — Cristiano Ronaldo

It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. — Mitch Albom

Some things you do, not because they're pleasant, but because they have to be done. — Joe R. Lansdale

Does she love you?"
"Not yet," Elliott says. "But she will. Araby's used to loving people who've done terrible things. — Bethany Griffin

I believe it's worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures. — Jason Clarke

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. — Giacomo Casanova

Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world. — Zinedine Zidane

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone. — Anneli Rufus

A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious? — Peter Saul

We had started thinking of ourselves not in terms of things that we had done, but in terms of what we were going to do. — Heather O'Neill

Not regretting it later is the reason I've done at least three-quarters of the best things in my life. — Cheryl Strayed

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths. — Louise Rennison

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger. — Christine Quinn

... there was a pattern to how things were done, rules we followed. Not following meant not knowing what might happen. — Gin Phillips

He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest. — Neal Shusterman

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. — George Allen, Sr.

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done — Chad Michael Murray

Regret for the things you have done can be tempered with time, It's regret for the things you have not doen that is inconsolable. — Reader's Digest Association

Regret for the things we have done will be tempered by time. It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. — Sydney J. Harris

If you've done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe? — Douglas Adams

Remember the unremembered; love the unloved; salute the unsaluted; hear the unheard; do the things which have not been done! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Can you be brave?' I did not know. I did not think so. It seemed to me that all I had done so far that night was to run from things. — Neil Gaiman

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do. — Rory Cochrane

Loving me will not be easy. Some days I will be a stuttering apology
and you won't know how to handle all the things I've done wrong. — Meggie Royer

if you're communicating with others only to tell them how you want things done, you're not communicating effectively. — Cameron Herold

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done. — Richard Rogers

I know that I have done many things to give you reason not to listen to me — Sinead O'Connor

Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape. — Anonymous