Tasks Quotes

I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to multi-task to survive in the entertainment industry.

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.

The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Our law enforcement must have every tool necessary to find and disrupt terrorists at home and abroad. That's the task of the 21st century.

Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.

Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

Securing food is the basic task for all humans.

I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.

I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.

Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.

The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense faith and experience.

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one.

The task of building a great university is never simple.

Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them.

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer.

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.

The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.

Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn’t be so inclined to jump up and strangle my grandmother.

I prefer to concentrate on my task of leading Europe to the success that our citizens expect. We have to look forwards now because what is at stake is what makes Europe Europe.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.

You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

Writing rules is not one of the more 'glamorous' aspects of working on games. It is a task that is, in general, more drudgery than glory.

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.

Now I spend hours on headlines - days if necessary. And when I get a good headline, I know that my task is nearly finished.

Our task is to accept each moment and move on from there, continuing to do our level best.

Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

No apology is equal to the task set before it.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

The task that lies before me is daunting and the rewards are uncertain. I should probably let someone else do it.