397 Quotes About Tasks

The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated caution, toward the door; these movements it performed in the manner of a prodigiously shitfaced man intent on demonstrating that he had only had a couple of sherries with dinner.

Multitasking is overrated - I'd rather do one thing well than many things badly. Quality supersedes quantity every time.

I shall not lie!" Eilonwy cried, "not for this traitor and deserter." "It is not for him," Taran said quietly, "but for the sake of our quest." "It isn't right," Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes. "We do not speak of rightness," Taran answered. "We speak of a task to be finished.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago, but I have no concentration: the time slips through my fingers like water.

I keep a list as close as my phone, and draw a deep sense of satisfaction each time I strike a task from it. In such erasure lies joy. No matter how much I give of myself to household chores, each of the rooms under my control swiftly unravels itself again in my aftermath, as though a shadow hand were already beginning the unwritten lists of my tomorrows…

We SPEND TIME, we PRIORITIZE TASKS, and we MANAGE LIFE.The first person to lead is YOURSELF.The first thing to manage is YOUR LIFE.The first area to focus on is YOUR PURPOSE.

The voice of Fr. Stephen came to him across the years as it often did. He had been in despair one day at the monastery over a task given to him by an elderly irascible Monk. “There are impossibilities in your mind that not impossibilities in the small world of your living,” Father Stephen said. “Before you reject a task as Impossible, ask yourself why God presented you with this thing to be done.

I guess I was actually sort of grateful that someone else was taking over my life. I mean, I'm obviously pretty terrible at managing my own life, so it was nice to know that it was in good hands. But also it was nice to have all these concrete tasks to do and be sort of distracted and consumed by them. It kept me from thinking about every depressing and weird thing that was going on at that time.