Task Quotes
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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
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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
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After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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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
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Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
Seneca the Younger
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I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
Thomas Lynch
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When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.
Elena Ferrante
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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
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
Tim Ferriss
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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
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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
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
Isaac Newton
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Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.
Alfie Kohn
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If you want something done, ask nicely. If a subordinate forgets to perform a task, don’t take it personally; just remind them nicely. In any organization, everyone has a “to-do” list. While juggling these tasks, some things will inevitably fall through the cracks. When that happens, don’t assume that the subordinate is lazy or stupid. Simply re-engage them on the task and, if necessary, emphasize why it’s a priority.
Hal Moore
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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
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You brain does its best when it is doing a task it can do well. That's basic brain science.
Edward Hallowell
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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
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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
