Tasks Quote by James Surowiecki Download Open image “Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful.” — James Surowiecki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Tasks
Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters. — Mark McCormack Copy Share Image
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“You can overcome any big task by converting it into smaller, manageable tasks and then following self-discipline to do all of those small tasks.” — SuccessCoach Nilesh Copy Share Image
Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time. — Gary W. Keller Copy Share Image
Multi-tasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously. — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Regardless of how little time and work someone takes to perform a task, there has to be a more efficient and effective way to… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
“By simply braking down the task into more manageable pieces much can be accomplished in a year.” — Annika Sorensen Copy Share Image
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a… — Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Copy Share Image
God has given believers the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to all the world, and we need to use all at our disposal to… — Theodore Epp Copy Share Image
Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
