Quotes About Tasks

las personas no tienen claro el objetivo, no están comprometidas con él, no saben qué tareas específicas les corresponden y no hay rendición de cuentas para supervisar que todos cumplan con sus responsabilidades.

[Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their 'to do' list.

Every task that requires completion today, left undone, turns into a double task for tomorrow.

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

I'm learning to trust other people to do things. My time is limited, and I'd rather be spending it with my kids.

I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.

In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at things. Cars move through the congested streets of London no faster than horse-drawn carriages did a century ago. Computers have no effect on productivity because people learn to complicate and repeat tasks that have been made easier.

Effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships around principles; ineffective people attempt to manage their time around priorities and their tasks around goals. Think effectiveness with people; efficiency with things.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. And

The key is to not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

It's not what we do that makes us tired—it's what we don't do. The tasks we don't complete cause the most fatigue.

What sort of signal does a college diploma send to a potential employer? That its holder is willing and able to complete all sorts of drawn-out, convoluted tasks.

Hire a marketing manager after two to three years. Read StoryBrand by Donald Miller. If your business is going to survive, you need to perform many tasks well at the same time.

Identify your 70/20/10 (or 60/30/10 depending on risk appetite). Most people know of this allocation from the innovation approach that Eric Schmidt pioneered at Google: 70 percent of time allocated to core business tasks, 20 percent to projects directly related to the core business, and 10 percent dedicated to projects unrelated to the core business.

You'll be feeling more than impatience if you keep giving me rubbish tasks like this! he predicted mutinously.

Oh, Lord, let me feel at one with myself. Let me perform a thousand daily tasks with love, but let every one spring from a greater central core of devotion and love.

In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be.

I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.

I started to apply the "one-minute rule"; I didn't postpone any task that could be done in less than one minute.

These tasks weren't urgent (which was the reason they didn't get done), but because they weighed on my mind, they sapped my energy.

People's biggest worries include financial anxiety, health concerns, job insecurity, and having to do tiring and boring chores.

I've done work wearing full cold-weather gear hanging off of scientific towers in the Antarctic and the Arctic. Having to actually do small, delicate tasks on scientific equipment while you have no dexterity or tactile feedback is something that's very transferrable.

There are so many options, so much to do, so many demands on Women. There is no point in taking one hour to do a ten-minute task, nor should we slap together an hour-worthy project in ten minutes.

A good pastor knows how to trust people and how to give them authority to fulfill all kinds of tasks. He tries to make himself unnoticed and unnecessary. Don't be indispensable!