Tasks Quotes

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My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders… — Pierre Loti
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort. — Thomas Lynch
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the… — Yo-Yo Ma
As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time… — Harvey Mackay
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. — Og Mandino
Be larger than your task. — Orison Swett Marden
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to… — Orison Swett Marden
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. — Orison Swett Marden
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. — W. Somerset Maugham
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. — Donella Meadows
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town,… — Felix Mendelssohn
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. — Michelangelo
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. — Maria Montessori
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. — Maria Montessori
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. — Maria Montessori
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To… — Maria Montessori
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the… — Henry Moore
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. — Iris Murdoch
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as… — Thomas Nagel
Art is the proper task of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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