Quotes About Task

When a man finds it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

It is for men to make wage war and make peace; for that task is theirs.

The focused mind only picks up on those aspects of a situation that are needed to accomplish the task at hand.

To undertake executions for the master executioner [Heaven] is like hewing wood for the master carpenter.Whoever undertakes to hew wood for the master carpenter rarely escapes injuring his own hands.

I go out to dinner, I wind up I with a homework assignment.

The apprenticeship model tends to throw people into a task and then come alongside to help as needed.

Strategizing boosts efficiency; planning your toughest work for the time when you have the most energy means a task might take one hour instead of two.

the task was critical. Aboard a swaying ship, the ampolletas were the only reliable timepiece

King Manuel of Portugal protested, Ferdinand, shading the truth a bit, explained that Solis's task was simply to find the line

there, on its banks, build a raft to cross it. The river lay many miles to the north, and the task

Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand.

This feeling that Jung had that if man lived his life religiously, if he lived his life symbolically, then it was almost as if what the theologians called God and my Zulus called the first spirit, the first spirit had passed over some of his power and some of his responsibilities to the human being and that the human being had a God-like task to perform in creation. And the extent to which he performed it, he derived his meaning.

My work had been successful. I cannot disclose the nature of the operation as the agency may have other work to do on it.

There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

There's light enough for wot I've got to do.

Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

It is indeed a much greater thing that I do now than I have ever done.

He executed his commission with great promptitude and dispatch, only calling at one public-house for half a minute, and even that might be said to be in his way, for he went in at one door and came out at the other[.]

When God calls you to a task or allows a trial, He assumes full responsibility for removing the hindrances that would keep you from succeeding. Therefore, you must respond in faith.

we need to mark the difference between what another may offer, threaten, or refuse while respecting my liberty and what offers, threats, and refusals violate it. It is the line between my rights and the rights of another. Marking that line is liberty's most difficult intellectual task.

The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday.

Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…

Rose with the odd consciousness of being free of my daily task. I have heard that the fish-women go to church of a Sunday with their creels new washed, and a few stones in them for ballast, just because they cannot walk steadily without their usual load. I feel something like them, and rather inclined to take up some light task, than to be altogether idle.