Task Quotes

• They were accustomed to think of the Abbé as one of those men who pass rapidly from point to point, from task to task, so intent on redeeming the time because the days are evil that they have no leisure to pause and enquire if perhaps the bad days have a few good points about them after all.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Point Of View
  • Pause
  • Bad Days

• The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Purpose
  • Task
  • Provisional

• If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.

  

  Saul David
  • Book
  • Task
  • Signing

• What the global delivery model allows is, it allows you to take previously geographically core-located tasks, break them up into parts, send them around the world where the expertise and the cost structure exists, and then specify the means for reintegrating them.

  

  Nirmalya Kumar
  • World
  • Task
  • Delivery

• Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Important
  • Task
  • Requiring

• When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis - the thought doesn't occur to him that 'There is someone better than me,' or 'There is someone equal to me,' or 'There is someone worse than me.'

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Goal
  • Destroyed
  • Monk

• Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.

  

  James Loeb
  • Task
  • Series
  • Desirability

• It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Means
  • Task
  • Centimeters

• When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Passion
  • Task
  • Urgency

• Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

  

  Ernest Shackleton
  • Poetry
  • Teachers
  • Imposition

• The tension of constructing an explanation, from A to B to C to D, apparently so simple a task, irritates many people with ADD. While they can hold the information in mind, they do not have the patience to sequentially put it out. That is too tedious. They would like to dump the information in a heap on the floor all at once and have it be comprehended instantly.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Information
  • Patience
  • Task

• I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

  

  Thomas Lynch
  • Effort
  • Jump
  • Task

• Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  

  Rumi
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Seek

• With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.

  

  Johannes Stark
  • Task
  • Atoms
  • Experimental

• To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Reality
  • Ignore
  • Inner Life

• There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

  

  George W. Bush
  • Task
  • Protecting
  • Homeland

• Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Tomorrow
  • Task
  • Depend

• Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

  

  John Bradshaw
  • Growing Up
  • Task
  • Adult

• The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.

  

  Nathan M. Pusey
  • Teacher
  • Facts
  • Task

• So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Human being
  • Task
  • Conduct

• You brain does its best when it is doing a task it can do well. That's basic brain science.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Science
  • Brain
  • Task

• When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Program
  • Task
  • Solve

• The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Think
  • Task

• We value task accomplishment over relationship building and either are not aware of this cultural bias or, worse, don’t care and don’t want to be bothered with it.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Relationship
  • Accomplishment
  • Don't Care

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