Quotes About Task

W]here there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them...

For the carpenter's and the geometer's inquiries about the right angle are different also; the carpenter restricts himself to what helps his work, but the geometer inquires into what, or what sort of things, the right angle is, since he studies the truth. We must do the same, then in other areas too, [seeking the proper degree of exactness], so that digressions do not overwhelm our main task.

Freedom is a property of the will which is realized through truth. Freedom is given to man as a task to be accomplished.

And without the power to concentrate—that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience—true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.

Pinner. 'Thank you very much,' said he; 'I fear that I underrated the difficulty of the task. This list will be of very material assistance to me.' 'It took some time,' said I.

You've got to live in the moment. Do what has to be done right now. Prepare for what will need to be done later.

This is why a new task faces us which did not exist before, the task of investigating the relationship of the manifest dream-content to the latent dream-thoughts, and of tracing the processes by which the latter turned into the former.

T]he ego has to try from the very outset to fulfil its task of mediating between its id and the external world in the service of the pleasure principle, and to protect the id from the dangers of the external world. [...] Thereafter, under the influence of education, the ego grows accustomed to removing the scene of the fight from outside to within and to mastering the internal danger before it has become an external one; and probably it is most often right in doing so.

getting clear about the right categories with which to understand human motivation, is an important practical task.

Existence asserts itself as an absolute which must seek its justification within itself and not suppress itself. To attain this truth, man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.

L'intelligence n'a rien à trouver, elle a à déblayer. Elle n'est bonne qu'aux tâches serviles.

They had something to do. They could escape from themselves.

The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music for the people he cannot see. The writer as conductor also gets to compose the music and play all of the instruments, a task less formidable than it seems.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

Get into the habit of rewarding the intellectual exertion your child puts into a given task rather than his or her native intellectual resources.

That's why a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task and makes up to 50 percent more errors.

Our evangelistic task is not to persuade people that the gospel was made for their felt needs, but that they were made for the soul-satisfying glory of God in the gospel.

Looking around me, I saw that all my colleagues were busy at the same task. Eyes were rolled up, mouths hung open, here and there a finger twitched. It had to be either a day trip from the Catatonic Academy, or the modern press at work.

A system of logical instructions that an automaton can carry out and which causes the automaton to perform some organized task is called a code.

Procrastinate later.

These are the thinking zone, programming zone, and performance zone.

Working memory is the type of memory that allows us to both hold information in mind and work on it as needed.

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.