Quotes About Task

Vanquishing the imagined opinions of others is a mighty task.

In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project.

For the past few years I've been on a quest to find a good definition of the imagination. To begin with, the task is rendered difficult by the general suspicion on the part of many decent Muggles1 that the imagination—loosely understood as the image-making faculty—is somehow evil or at least something we're supposed to grow out of.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it's a waste of time.

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

Getting it done is my reward.

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.

Por eso afirmaba que, para contrarrestar el estado de ignorancia y estupidez que podía acarrear a los trabajadores lo mecánico de su tarea, la educación era indispensable y debía ser financiada, para quienes no podían costeársela, por el Estado o la sociedad civil.

Thou art a minister of the Word; Mind thy Business!

La diferencia entre lo trivial y lo importante depende de la persona que hace el trabajo.

People who consistently succeed are those who can commit all of their resources, mental and physical, to work together toward achieving a task.

That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.

was it not all said and done and arranged with reference to his and her own popularity? When a man wants to be Prime Minister he has to submit to vulgarity, and must give up his ambition if the task be too disagreeable to him.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.