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Quotes About Task

The potential consequences of any task or activity are the key determinants of how important a task really is to you and to your company.
~ Brian Tracy
Your "frog" is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don't do something about it. It is also the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on your life and results at the moment. The
~ Brian Tracy
Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
~ Brian Tracy
A major reason for procrastination is a feeling of inadequacy, a lack of confidence, or an inability in a key area of a task. Feeling weak or deficient in a single area is enough to discourage you from starting the job at all.
~ Brian Tracy
Effective, productive people discipline themselves to start on the most important task that is before them. They force themselves to eat that frog, whatever it is. As a result, they accomplish vastly more than the average person and are much happier as a result.
~ Brian Tracy
Whenever you complete a task of any size or importance, you feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. The more important the completed task, the happier, more confident, and more powerful you feel about yourself and your world. The completion of an important task triggers the release of endorphins in your brain.
~ Brian Tracy
The ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success
~ Brian Tracy
El hecho es que el tiempo que se requiere para completar un trabajo importante suele ser el mismo que se requiere para hacer un trabajo sin importancia.
~ Brian Tracy
Your frog is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don't do something about it. It is also the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on your life and results at the moment.
~ Brian Tracy
A great life, a great career is built by performing one task at a time, quickly and well, and then going on to the next task.
~ Brian Tracy
The completion of an important task triggers the release of endorphins in your brain. These endorphins give you a natural "high." The endorphin rush that follows successful completion of any task makes you feel more positive, personable, creative, and confident.
~ Brian Tracy
Your subject should always answer the question "What is the problem to be solved?" or "What is the job to be done?" A
~ Brian Tracy
There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.
~ Bruce Rosenblum
If, of course, to serial and redescription you add… how would I put it, punctual? …Or the key with which they maintain their subsistence. And in that sense serial redescription seems to be a very good definition for the social sciences as well as for philosophy. We accompany the task of the entities in their survival, so to speak, and their maintaining their subsistence in a very, very practical manner.
~ Bruno Latour
This looks very much as if the integration of the day's experience into our memory, the forging of new neural links, is either an easier or a more urgent task. As the night wears on and this function is completed, the more affecting dreams, the more bizarre material, the fears and lusts and other powerful emotions of the dream material emerge.
~ Carl Sagan
We're on a mission from Glod.
~ Terry Pratchett
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo. And I am afraid to say that these days all I get is moo.
~ Terry Pratchett
Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards—not not doing magic because they couldn't do magic, but not doing magic when they could do and didn't. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn't been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again.
~ Terry Pratchett
he'd experienced the lovely warm feeling of a bad job well done.
~ Terry Pratchett
Charles threw down the knife. Its thud was lost in the high-spirited bedlam of young men let loose upon a task so gruesome, the only sane response was perverse frivolity.
~ Tess Gerritsen
The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
this was going to be easy peasy.
~ Theodora Goss
He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent non the task at hand that he never looked over his shoulder, even if his cloak got caught in a thorny bush. When he did turn to speak to somebody, he used to swing his entire body and dress him full face. When he shook hands, he was never the first to withdraw his own. He inspired such confidence that he was known as al-Amin, the Reliable One.
~ Karen Armstrong
For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have.
~ Karl Rahner