Tasks Quotes - Page 32

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

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list

Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

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

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners.

[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations.

Our task is to relate our lives to God, and let Him work through us.

The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to speak even when my words are not received; free to act even when my actions are criticized, ridiculed, or considered useless.... I am convinced that I will truly be able to love the world when I fully believe that I am loved far beyond its boundaries.

Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.

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 search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule. The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion

What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. It’s about showing that you’re willing to accept them for whatever they are, that they should not feel insecure or self-conscious in your presence, which can be a hard task to achieve.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

There are so many people afraid of a task. They get so overwhelmed by the obstacles in front of them that they shy away from reaching beyond a position of safety.

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time.