Task Quotes
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Drag is about whatever persona you put on to do a particular task. I could pick up trash in the morning and throw on my navy blue jumpsuit, and that would be that gig!
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
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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.
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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.
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Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
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Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You brain does its best when it is doing a task it can do well. That's basic brain science.
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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.
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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.
