Tasks Quotations | Page 8

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.

I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved.

The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.

There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

I'm after something far more esoteric than a virginal shag. Though, if you'd like, darlin', I'm certainly up for the task.

Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster. No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.

The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit.

Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.

Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.

All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.

Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass...if we do not take [tasks] one at a time and let them pass...slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own...structure.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.

The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.

A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.

My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less.

Tasks that we thought in the past as impossible will now be rather simple, ... We are going to lead the way in XML advances.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves....

And the most difficult of tasks to keepHeights which the soul is competent to gain.

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

If you think you can or cannot accomplish a task, you will be correct in either case.

Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to accomplish in life.

Our attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its outcome more than anything else.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?

We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government.

I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

When you have set yourself a task finish it.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing.

Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation...

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

An employer has no business with a man's personality. The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant