Quotes About Task

To do even the most humbling tasks to the glory of God takes the Almighty God Incarnate working in us." Oswald Chambers

There are times when there is no illumination and no thrill, but just the daily round, the common task. Routine is God's way of saving us between our times of inspiration. Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

There is something so pleasingly pure about having a task to be accomplished and then accomplishing it. It is the exact opposite of writing, and pretty close to the opposite of teaching. In both writing and teaching, nothing is ever finished, only finished enough to let go.

Get over your fear of finishing. Being able to complete tasks doesn't just matter in kindergarten; it's a key skill for grown-ups.

If the organization doesn't invest resources in the development of the team, it will be more difficult to convince the team that their task really is relevant.

For the worker bee, life is given over to the grim satisfaction of striking a firm line through a task accomplished. On to the next, and the next. Check, check. Done and done. It explains—and solves—nothing to call this workaholism.

Souraya thought those days that she knew so many songs about the misery of love because pain kept love within the boundaries of time, and knowable, whereas what she was experiencing passed beyond the horizon of birth and death; it was like the eternal life the prophets spoke of. A gesture, a kiss, a task, a sentence had a golden elemental endlessness, like the scenes in the murals painted in the island houses.

Vale, cabezón y pececitos, hagamos un trato. Yo no os miraré por esa ventana tan aterradora si vosotros no me miráis mientras trabajo. ¿Hecho? Bien.

It is essentially an act of avoiding discomfort (i.e. the trouble of doing the intended task) and pursuing pleasure instead (i.e. substituting more enjoyable activities, plus the relief of not having to engage in the intended task).

It's like the fellah in the lavatory said, No job's over 'til the paperwork's done.

they were spread out over an area slightly larger than New Jersey. Considering they could have been scattered all over the planet, that wasn't so bad. Since, unlike Jersey, Karma had no traffic, and we were allowed to make left turns, it was only a difficult, not impossible, task.

People who are not historians sometimes think of history as the facts about the past. Historians are supposed to know otherwise. The facts are there, to be sure, but they are infinite in number and speak, if at all, in conflicting, often unintelligible, voices. It is the task of the historian to reach back into this incoherent babel of facts, choose the ones that are important, and figure out what it is they say.

three related ways: through the configurability of space, through the relationship of body to task, and through physical constraints.

No one is good; no one is evil; everyone is both, in the same way and in different ways. … It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of the common task.

It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.

It is not only the arduousness of the effort of memory that confers this unsettling character upon the relation, but the fear of having forgotten, of continuing to forget, of forgetting tomorrow to fulfill some task or other; for tomorrow, one must not forget...to remember.

A memory stabbed him, as sharp as a blade. He'd floated alone in an escape pod over Ryloth once, spinning high over its surface, after crashing a cruiser into a droid control ship. Another name bobbed up and broke the surface of the sea of memory. Ahsoka. He'd called her "Snips" sometimes. He pushed the errant recollection aside and focused on his task.

Just as objective social reality exists not by chance, but as the product of human action, so it is not transformed by chance. If humankind produce social reality, then transforming that reality is an historical task, a task for humanity.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

and one of their lessons was that the essence of the work was the doing of it.

the search for human freedom—freedom being the choice to be a creator of our own experience and accept the unbearable responsibility that goes with that. Out of this insight grows the idea that perhaps the real task of leadership is to confront people with their freedom. This may be the ultimate act of love that is called for from those who hold power over others.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”