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Quotes About Task

I'll set up a cron job to do it right now," Corvallis said. "Once an hour?" "I was thinking once a minute.
~ Neal Stephenson
I always make lists of things I need to get done. I like the sense of having completed one thing so I can move on to the next.
~ Mette Frederiksen
Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that's been good, and it's just a case of trying to get stuff done when I am there and just being efficient with managing my time.
~ Hannah Murray
Congratulations, you have been chosen to act as Death, it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
~ Christopher Moore
As difficult as it is, you have to learn to put aside your troubles and concentrate entirely on the task at hand. Find peace within yourself and let your actions flow from there.
~ Christopher Paolini
Let go of your worries and focus only on the task at hand. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.
~ Christopher Paolini
Pekerjaan laki-laki, atau pekerjaan perempuan, adalah pekerjaan yang harus diselesaikan - Roran
~ Christopher Paolini
Deshazte de tus preocupaciones y concéntrate solo en la tarea que tienes delante. El futuro será el que tenga que ser, y preocupándote por él solo aumentarás la probabilidad de que tus miedos se hagan realidad.
~ Christopher Paolini
The doing is the thing.
~ Christopher Paolini
Jaynes (1976) suggested that task persistence is a uniquely human strength. With some exceptions, most animals do not persist at any given task longer than 20 minutes before moving on to the next task.
~ Christopher Peterson
Descubrí, pues, que una novela no tiene nada que ver, en principio, con las palabras. Escribir una novela es una tarea cosmológica, como la que se cuenta en el Génesis (ya decía Woody Allen que los modelos hay que saber elegirlos).
~ Umberto Eco
Libertà e liberazione sono un compito che non finisce mai.
~ Umberto Eco
went down the supermarket for my messages
~ Val McDermid
Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
~ Victor Hugo
You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a slave.
~ Victor Hugo
Every difficult task that comes across your path—every one that you would rather not do, that will take the most effort, cause the most pain, and be the greatest struggle—brings a blessing with it.
~ L.B. Cowman
Indeed, Hilda was always putting her oar in, constituting herself the voice of conscience; she was a task-mistress, leading the chorus, undefined, unrecognised, but clearly felt, of those who thought he ought to try more, do more, be more, than he had it in him to try, or do, or be.
~ L.P. Hartley
Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.
~ Cassandra Clare
Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a maiden in a tower—" At this the Witch spat, again rolling her marvelous eyes. "Those revolting creatures are always getting themselves locked up. If only they would stay that way.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Theology is the happy science concerned with the task of pointing to him whose yoke is easy, whose burden is light. Theology is not in the business of absolutizing itself, but rather of pointing beyond itself to the one who gives
~ Gerhard O. Forde
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.
~ Giacomo Casanova
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every culture is first and foremost a particular experience of time, and no new culture is possible without an alteration in this experience. The original task of a genuine revolution, therefore, is never merely to 'change the world', but also - and above all - to 'change time'.
~ Giorgio Agamben
Comunicar los deseos imaginados y las imágenes deseadas es la tarea más ardua.
~ Giorgio Agamben