Tasks Quotes
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Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
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Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.
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Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
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Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
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Where the kids routinely outscored the apes was in tasks that involved reading social cues.
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Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present.
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She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.
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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
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When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.
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Nothing about my birth - or yours - was random or accidental. I was born for this time - and so were you. We were each chosen for a particular, cosmically important task that can be done by no one else.
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I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
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Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.
