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Quotes About Tasks

Praying with You Lord, so often we are overwhelmed by all the tasks ahead of us. Today help us to turn our eyes to You so that we can discern between the truly important tasks and those that will not add any real value to our lives. May we look to You as our Peace today. Amen.
~ Sally Clarkson
The brain handles tasks sequentially but can switch attention between tasks so quickly that we're given the illusion that we can perform multiple tasks together. So if you want to get more done using less effort, aim to work on what's called your attentional ability: focus and concentrate on one sequence—one task—at a time and avoid distractions.
~ Sanjay Gupta
The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.
~ Brian Tracy
I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.
~ Luis von Ahn
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
~ Harriet Martineau
Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.
~ Shawn Achor
I have so much to do! And there's so little time!
~ John Gunther
Not everyone can find a cure for cancer. Someone has to make the dinners and sort the socks.
~ Marian Keyes
Important describes what I have to do by April 14. Important describes my license renewed, my bills paid, payroll... Abby. You're not important. You're everything.
~ Shiloh Walker
There was a great deal of fussing to be done before Mr. Summers declared the lottery  open. There were the lists to make up­­ of heads of families, heads of households in each family, members of each household in each family.
~ Shirley Jackson
conversion is the creation of new desires, not just new duties; new delights, not just new deeds; new treasures, not just new tasks.
~ John Piper
Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These tasks can be transposed into worship.
~ John Piper
Four of the directors were there to perform more mundane tasks. Kaufman, Earle, Raskob, and du Pont would supply the requisite start-up funds, but not even those millionaires were willing to put up the cost of the entire undertaking. The issuance of stock was not deemed suitable. They needed a $27.5 million loan. They
~ John Tauranac
Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, said the following to the New York City School Teachers Association in 1909: "We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forgo the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Desde que tenía memoria, William Stoner había tenido obligaciones. A los seis años ordeñaba las vacas macilentas, alimentaba a los cerdos en el chiquero que estaba a pocos metros de la casa y juntaba
~ John Williams
T)he only way we can prove ourselves worthy of a big trust is by doing well the tasks that belong to each day.
~ Elizabeth Yates
To be taskipated simply means to be overwhelmed with tasks (challenges, difficulties or hardships). But, you shouldn't be overwhelmed with tasks. Rather, you should boldly confront and overcome your tasks (challenges, difficulties or hardships). I mean, face and tackle your tasks squarely until you are through with all of them. For, you are more powerful and capable than you think or imagine. ~Emeasoba George.
~ Emeasoba George
There's time for everything except the things worth doing.
~ George Orwell
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
When our schedules are busy, and we are working hard on the tasks immediately at hand, it can be difficult to see that big, potential breakthrough idea right in front of us, much less act on it.
~ Dinesh Paliwal
She'd read somewhere that if you gave your brain tasks to do it stopped overthinking. She'd given herself a lot of tasks. Sometimes she felt like a robot. It seemed like a lifetime since she'd felt human.
~ Sarah Morgan
killing rats wasn't in my job description.
~ Scott Douglas
I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.
~ Tim Ferriss