Tasks Quotes
1915 quotes by 1287 authors
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Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of…
— Peter Forsyth
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Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task that they are…
— Richard E. Blackwelder
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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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The Spirit has his own existence and personal function in the inner life of God and the economy of salvation: his task is to bring…
— John Meyendorff
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A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's…
— Peter Drucker
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I watched them carefully, as always, searching for a sign of mental weakness. But there was none. Every man was coping well with the hardship,…
— Daniel Topolski
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We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.
— Paul Saffo
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Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task…
— Bobbi Brown
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Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy;…
— Laozi
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Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat,…
— Konrad Lorenz
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The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be.…
— Og Mandino
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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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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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The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy. However "sacred" a calling may be, as it…
— Meister Eckhart
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Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.
— Shawn Achor
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Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on…
— Thomas Merton
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Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to…
— B. J. Fogg
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Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.
— Donald A. Norman
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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this,…
— George Eliot
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There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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