Quotes About Task

What I must do is all that concerns me

Nunca podremos ser como Dios, pero sí podemos concluir la tarea que nos ha asignado.

Nunca podremos ser como Dios, pero sí podemos concluir la tarea que nos ha asignado. Por eso, Jesús demostró que la mejor manera de cumplir el propósito de Dios es obedecer siempre la voluntad del Padre, aun cuando él parezca distante.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

She was engaged in the task of defending her position in life, said Heyst. It's a very respectable task.

My task...is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to make you see. That - and no more - and it is everything.

He knew the magic monotony of existence between sky and water: he had to bear the criticism of men, the exactions of the sea, and the prosaic severity of the daily task that gives bread1—but whose only reward is in the perfect love of the work.

Just pass the work I assign along to somebody else and trust to luck. We call that delegation of responsibility.

At the public level, Morris's chief task was to restore the credit of the United States government. (Actually, restore is not right, since nothing had existed beforehand to be restored.)

If you are facing a difficult task don't put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, even put one in trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it. As

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.

The task of prophetic imagination is to cut through the numbness, to penetrate the self-deception, so that the God of endings is confessed as Lord. Notice that I suggest for the prophet in a really numbed situation a quite elemental and modest task.

The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.

The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

Remember that you are an actor in a play of whatever kind the producer may choose. If a short one, short; if a long one, long. If he wants you to play a beggar, see that you act even this part naturally; or a cripple, or a ruler, or an ordinary citizen. Your task is to give a good performance of the part that you are assigned. To select the part belongs to someone else.

remote associations—"like when we think of 'table' and the idea of 'under the table'"—require more of a neural reach. The brain's right hemisphere, made up of cells with longer branches, is better suited for this task.

Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.

My whole course of life," I observed, "has been desultory, and I am unfitted for any periodically recurring task, or any stipulated labor of body or mind. I have no command of my talents, such as they are, and have to watch the varyings of my mind as I would those of a weathercock.

Everything is at its best when it's doing exactly what it was created for. A lamp gives light. An apple gives sustenance and refreshment. A chair is perfect in being exactly what it is--a chair.

The right tool turns work into fun."

If imagination is not set to the task of building a creative life, it busies itself with weaving a web of inner fears and doubts, blame and excuse. —LAURENCE G. BOLDT

It is wrong to blame anyone for failing to forecast accurately in an unpredictable world. However, it seems fair to blame professionals for believing they can succeed in an impossible task. Claims

Flow neatly separates the two forms of effort: concentration on the task and the deliberate control of attention.