Quotes About Task

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

Procrastination is a form of punishment

Sometimes success is just getting the laundry into the dryer before the mildew sets in

It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then more onto the next.

You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then move on to the next.

The woman picked up a broom and began sweeping the sand into small piles, then edging the piles back to the fence. New sand blew in as she swept.

On this score, for-profit managers have it easier. Market prices give them a clear yardstick against which to measure the value they create. Nonprofit managers face the same task, creating value, but without the clarity of that yardstick.

Easy and difficult things are juat small parts of life, the rest are what have to be done.

Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to list.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

It's all in the day's work.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

The hardest task to accomplish is to forgive and forget, but the benefits you reap are immense.

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Make your life an adventure, because every task leads you to new discoveries, new acquaintances and new experiences.

We can consider ourselves committed only when we have fixity of purpose and show sincerity and steadfastness in working towards its realization. Our commitment binds us emotionally to the task on hand. It infuses new energy and enthusiasm in us and acts as the driving force that makes us move ahead in a determined manner.

into the iron pot for flavor. It was also my task to skim the scum that boiled to the top of the broth as the bones simmered, leaving the broth clear and rich.

Do not leave to the morning the business of the evening.

And yet I go on; if we are tired isn't it then because we have already walked a long way, and if it is true that man has his battle to fight on earth, is not then the feeling of weariness and the burning of the head a sign that we have been struggling? When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing we fight a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

The unsurrogated narrator has the monumental task of transforming low-level self-interest into the kind of detached empathy required of a piece of writing that is to be of value to the disinterested reader.

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.

It is important for us to draw literally all working people into the government of the state. It is a task of tremendous difficulty. But socialism cannot be implemented by a minority, by the Party. It can be implemented by tens of millions when they have learned to do it for themselves.

One of the most important tasks of the Cultural Revolution affecting the wide masses is the task of systematically and unswervingly combating religion—the opium of the people.