Quotes About Task

There is neither the time nor the impetus for the nurturing of a quiet eye, much less the memory of its harvests. Behind our screens, at work and at home, we have sutured the temporal segments of our days so as to switch our attention from one task or one source of stimulation to another. We cannot but be changed. And we are—

A rebel! How glorious the name sounds when applied to a woman. Oh, rebellious woman, to you the world looks in hope. Upon you has fallen the glorious task of bringing liberty to the earth and all the inhabitants thereof.

A fragmented task takes more time than a blocked-time task.

Expressing what exists is an endless task.

The limping of philosophy is its virtue. True irony is not an alibi; it is a task; and the very detachment of the philosopher assigns to him a certain kind of action among men.

The task of critical reflection is not merely to understand the various facts in their historical development (...) but also to see through the notion of fact itself, in its development and therefore in its relativity.

Yours is the idea, yours the duty.

Were you hoping for a quest? A seemingly impossible task that you could relay to your queen afterward? Would you like to tell her that you found and slayed the dragon for love of her? -Queen Sorcha

One of the essential tasks in industry analysis is to distinguish temporary or cyclical changes from structural changes. P.29

Destiny has called you to be a god. Are you hero enough for the task? Will you switch on your inner "hero program", or slink off to the shopping mall or the sports stadium and put it off for yet another day? Maybe you'll take in a movie. So much easier to watch others doing the heavy lifting, and the actors are just faking it anyway. Where are the real heroes? Where are YOU?!

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.

It may be a dangerous and confusing job. But it's mine to do…

It is the task of Revelation, in part, to convince its hearers and readers that faithful discipleship has both costs and rewards.

Já vím, kamaráde. Snažím se tohle všechno nezapomínat, ale je to stejn? snadné jako sprchovat slona ve van?." "Hezká p?edstava, ale já mám spíš dojem, že sprchujeme hejno opic.

There was no real up-and-down structure, but merely a figure at the top and then everyone else scrambling for his attention. It wasn't task-based so much as response-oriented—whatever captured the boss's attention focused everybody's attention.

For Walsh, it was a daily process of managing an impossible task: almost as soon as she received direction from one of the three men, she would be countermanded by one or another of them.

It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life. When we are in flow, we are not happy, because to experience happiness we must focus on our inner states, and that would take away attention from the task at hand.

Family on mission is how we stop thinking of discipleship as a task that we do and start living out discipleship as a way that we are.

As a bridesmaid, on the morning of the wedding you will be unfolding the rusty metal legs of a banquet table and in the distance you will see a useless groomsman playing Frisbee with a dog. To rub salt in the wound, he might lightly ask, "Is there anything I can do to help?" knowing full well no self-respecting bridesmaid will task him with any job because he will do it too slowly.

If I went to the mall immediately and got a new sheet, then the chore wouldn't have time to gather weight. Once a task goes on the to-do list it settles in, grows roots—the trick is to preëmpt that.

On the day of judging the miserable, In the hour of doing their task. It is painful when the accuser has knowledge, Do not trust in length of years, They view a lifetime in an hour!

But as of late, I have been consumed with the significant task of revising the latest edition of my Practical Handbook of Bee Culture , while alternately putting the finishing touches on my four volumes of The Whole Art of Detection . The latter is a rather tedious, labyrinthine undertaking...

In truth, my purpose on earth is not fully accomplished yet so nothing can harm me. Once my task is completed, then it will be time to go, but until then I'm perfectly safe

Always have something to do, idleness is the worst disease to be avoided.