Task Quotes - page 10

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.' (Quincy Jones)
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
If you are facing a difficult task don't put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you. View quote
Joyce Meyer
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters. View quote
Idries Shah
The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. View quote
Arthur Bloch
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. View quote
Yousuf Karsh
For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task. View quote
Ed O'Brien
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. View quote
Wendell Berry
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival. View quote
Gerard O'Neill
Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off. (Jeffrey Pfeffer)
A hundred people is rather a large handful for the four of us to take on," Malcolm pointed out. "Do you have any ideas about how we're going to handle that task?" "Simple," Halt told him. "We'll surround them. View quote
John Flanagan
Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task. View quote
John Flanagan
Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left. View quote
Itzhak Perlman
Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog. View quote
Nate Ruess
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task. View quote
David Heinemeier Hansson
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love. View quote
Olivia De Havilland
The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs. View quote
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on. View quote
Alana Stewart
Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. (Aldrich Ames)
Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days. View quote
Ali Landry
I think if I'm guilty of anything, I'm guilty of always being incredibly focused on the task at hand. So wherever I've worked, I've just always tried to do my best, achieve my best, build a great team around me. View quote
Angela Ahrendts
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else. View quote
Anna Garlin Spencer
That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions. View quote
Arne Jacobsen