Defy the Precedent

“It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent.”
--Clara Barton

Be a Leader

“To be a leader make a short list of all the things done to you that you abhorred. Do not do them to others, ever. Make another list of things done to you that you loved. Do them to others. always.”
--Dee Hock

Expensive Words

“Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: ‘We’ve always done it that way.’”
--Catherine DeVry

Mind Made Up

“When one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
--Rosa Parks

Listen to Experts

"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it."
--Robert A. Heinlein

Mediocre Fear

“Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.”
--Chet Atkins

Men and Mountains

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” --William Blake

Done Much Today?

“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.”
--Mikhail S. Gorbachev

Get Things Done

“A plan is what, a schedule is when. It takes both a plan and a schedule to get things done.”
--Peter Turla

Done in Haste

“Often what is done in haste, we regret at leisure.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Love Many Things

“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
--Vincent Van Gogh

Poor Estimation

“You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.”
--Bill Gates

Always Doing

“It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.”
--Thomas Jefferson

Supposed To Be Hard

“The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way. It's supposed to be hard.”
--Regina Dugan

Nothing Done

“Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.”
--John Henry Newman

Bad Measures

“A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.”
--Daniel Webster

Get 'er Done

“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.”
--Dale Carnegie

See Ahead

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
--Alan Turing

Finest Eloquence

“The finest eloquence is that which gets things done ... the worst is that which delays them.”
--David Lloyd George

Blessed Work

“The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
--George Eliot