“Would you look at me I'm crazy
But I get the job done
Yeah, I'm crazy but I get the job done.”
Ben Folds (1966) American musician
"Philosophy", Ben Folds Five (1995).
Song lyrics, With Ben Folds Five
“The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem.”
As quoted in "Close-up : I'm looking for a market for wisdom. : Leo Szilard, scientist" in LIFE magazine, Vol. 51, no. 9 (1 September 1961), p. 75
Context: The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.
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“Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it.”
Leó Szilárd (1898–1964) Physicist and biologist
As quoted in "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace", LIFE magazine, Vol. 51, no. 9 (1 September 1961), p. 79
Context: In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
“Violence is useless. Civil disobedience is a necessary and effective tool to get the job done.”
Reza Pahlavi (1960) Last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran
As quoted by Michel Bole-Richard, The regime is archaic. The country is on the brink of explosion http://www.rezapahlavi.org/details_article.php?article=4&page=6, Le Monde, June 18, 2005. <br class="br">Interviews, 2005 <br class="br">Context: Violence is useless. Civil disobedience is a necessary and effective tool to get the job done. The system must be paralyzed and national reconciliation facilitated. A police State can not control a massive uprising. Iranians, in particular the youth, are aware of what is going on in the world. The regime is archaic. The country is on the brink of explosion. But this should not happen in anarchy. What we want is a democratic and peaceful implosion. If the champion of reforms, Mohammad Khatami, couldn't do anything, it is not Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, the most detested and most corrupt individual in the country, who can bring about change. What we have is a paralyzed mafia regime.
“Life's most important questions are, for the most part, nothing but probability problems.”
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) French mathematician and astronomer
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"Les questions les plus importantes de la vie ne sont en effet, pour la plupart, que des problèmes de probabilité."
Howard Williams (humanitarian) (1837–1931) English humanitarian
The Ethics of Diet, Preface http://www.ivu.org/history/williams/preface.html from the 1st edition, 1883.
“The most important questions of life… are indeed for the most part only problems of probability.”
Pierre-Simon Laplace book Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1902)
Context: The most important questions of life... are indeed for the most part only problems of probability. Strictly speaking it may even be said that nearly all our knowledge is problematical; and in the small number of things which we are able to know with certainty, even in the mathematical sciences themselves, the principal means for ascertaining truth—induction and analogy—are based on probabilities.<!--p.1
“Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.”
Jack Welch (1935) American executive: General Electric CEO
Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 24.