Quotes About Task

You can take a thing when no one's looking. But defending it, even with all the advantage on your side, is no easy task,' Madoc told her with a laugh. She looked up to find him offering her a hand. 'Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.

Whoever was doing the crossword was halfway through

I know my role and I play it well.

The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

It's about identifying the patterns and the attributes that construct them. It's about making form work for your writing task

Foreign Narcotics Operations Task Force in Dallas. A.k.a. the Cartel Busters.

It was a tricky job.

For ten-on-the-table nights, I memorized the take-out menus of every restaurant within a ten-block radius of West Eleventh Street, which was no small task.

In a boat, I have always noticed that it is the fixed idea of each member of the crew that he is doing everything. 

life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work. 

Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful. She feels the sun scorching the back of her neck. The heat is at its worst now, the rains still a few months away. The task satisfies her. It passes the time.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

Some people come to work and that's exactly what it is - work.

I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.

Someone has to do everything that is done.

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

If you are already an awakened soul, Then you must realise That God has already given you A supreme task to perform: He wants you to work For His Vision's world-blossoms.

I'd rather work than not.

I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.