Quotes About Task

Lai Tsin immediately set about his work.

had the feeling that I was a historical fragment, an excerpt for which the preceding and succeeding text was missing…. 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 to be born again because I had not fulfilled the task that was given to me. —CARL JUNG

They were accustomed to think of the Abbé as one of those men who pass rapidly from point to point, from task to task, so intent on redeeming the time because the days are evil that they have no leisure to pause and enquire if perhaps the bad days have a few good points about them after all.

Only that which is done

Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work — whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty — is the great task of our generation as a whole.

The shortest answer is the doing the thing.

A behavior is something you can do right now or at another specific point in time.

The important thing to remember about procrastination is that the perception of difficulty can be just as important as the actual difficulty. In addition, every day you don't do the task, it grows in your head, which makes the task seem more and more difficult.

At the end of the day, a point guard's got to do his job.

When I'm driving, the fewer distractions there are, the better it is to focus on the job in hand.

How many consultants does it take to change a lightbulb? I'll have an estimate for you a week from Monday.

Theology is "practical" in the fullest, most robust sense: it is a matter not of building systems of ideas so much as it is of world-building, or rather, of building up the world into the fullness of Christ (Eph. 1:22–23). Being biblical, then, ultimately refers to what may be termed a "political" task: building the city of God amidst the ruins of the city of Man.

There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it in myself, and I do not believe there is another man in the world so hideously lacking in it.

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

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Mr. Tulliver did not willingly write a letter, and found the relation between spoken and written language, briefly known as spelling, one of the most puzzling things in this puzzling world. Nevertheless, like all fervid writing, the task was done in less time than usual, and if the spelling differed from Mrs. Glegg's,- why, she belonged, like himself, to a generation with whom spelling was a matter of private judgment.

sacred is the task of the artist when he undertakes to paint the life of the People. Falsification here is far more pernicious than in the more artificial aspects of life.

Mr. Tulliver did not willingly write a letter, and found the relation between spoken and written language, briefly known as spelling, one of the most puzzling things in this puzzling world. Nevertheless, like all fervid writing, the task was done in less time than usual, and if the spelling differed from Mrs. Glegg's,–why, she belonged, like himself, to a generation with whom spelling was a matter of private judgment.

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

'Gone Home' is a game about exploration, and everything you'll experience is tied intimately to the space of the spooky house around you. Your task is simple: Poke around.

To take a task that could be accomplished by pushing a button or flipping a switch, and instead complete it only after spending a full day grunting and groaning from the physical effort, and all in the name of the beauty of sweat and the joys of labor—now that is a stupid idea.

The engineers were under imperative orders

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.