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Quotes About Tasks

Nh?ng công vi?c ? ngay trước m?t ta ph?i coi là quan tr?ng nh?t, và ??ng b?n tâm tá»›i nh?ng công vi?c còn m? m? t? xa
~ Dale Carnegie
Organizational theorists, at least since Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 in what came to be called the contingency school, have recognized that centralization is appropriate for organizations with routine tasks, and decentralization for those with nonroutine tasks.
~ Charles Perrow
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
~ Andy Rooney
However, there are actually few good data, or much theory, as to why relative brain size is the best indicator of cognitive ability, other than a general feeling that large animals need large brains. Instead, there is increasing evidence from structural analyses of brains, as well as from attempts to test species with different-sized brains on comparable tasks, that absolute size may be a better general measure of cognitive ability.
~ Hal Whitehead
This love of Christ and for Christ impels us day after day, taking up our tasks one after another, in full knowledge that our work no matter how tiring and repetitive is really his own. We have nothing to give to others that we ourselves have not first received. His gifts of forgiveness, life, and salvation are inexhaustible.
~ Harold L. Senkbeil
the wilderness. Who in his right mind would not want someone to take care of these unpalatable household tasks?
~ LaVyrle Spencer
I'm so tired of asking Andrew to do things around the house. No one has to ask me. You know why? Because I just get on with it.
~ Jancee Dunn
She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth knows how to relax in her own house.' And then she would shake her head, as if Elizabeth had remarkable powers.
~ Jane Smiley
The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.
~ James Surowiecki
I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.
~ Lucy Hawking
Having been a caregiver more times than I care to count, 'StandWith' lets caregivers and patients easily update their community and post targeted tasks that community members can accept.
~ Yael Cohen
Housework is what woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
~ Evan Esar
As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
~ Mae Jemison
We are drawn to tasks where we can receive validation through results, but I've learned that true fulfillment comes from love of the process. Look for something where you love the process, and the results will follow.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I needed to get out of my inbox and back to my own to-do list.
~ Timothy Ferriss
More than just being paid to produce works of art, these artists performed a number of tasks in exchange for protection, food, and gifts. One of the roles was that of an anteambulo—literally meaning "one who clears the path." An anteambulo proceeded in front of his patron anywhere they traveled in Rome, making way, communicating messages, and generally making the patron's life easier.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Robienie rzeczy niewa?nej sprawia, ?e nie zrobisz czego? wa?nego. Zadanie wymagaj?ce czasu wcale nie staje si? wa?ne tylko z tego powodu. Od tej chwili zapami?taj sobie na zawsze, ?e to, co robisz, jest niesko?czenie wa?niejsze od tego, jak to robisz. Wydajno?? jest wa?na, ale bezu?yteczna, je?li nie odnosi si? do w?a?ciwych rzeczy.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Je?li chcemy mie? wi?cej czasu, musimy robi? mniej – to kluczowy warunek. Istniej? dwa sposoby osi?gni?cia tego stanu, które najlepiej zastosowa? równocze?nie: (1) przygotuj krótk? list? rzeczy do zrobienia; (2) przygotuj list? rzeczy, których nie nale?y robi?.
~ Timothy Ferriss
two primary goals or tasks per day.
~ Timothy Ferriss
The Checklist Manifesto.
~ Timothy Ferriss
The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Wunderlist: app/herramienta de gestión de tareas pendientes para ayudarte a hacer cosas.
~ Timothy Ferriss
My job on that first day, like for most green cooks, was official kitchen gofer. Whatever any other cook needed doing, I did it.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt