Tasks Quotes - Page 38

The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.

A couple's first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too.

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.

The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized.

Regrettably, to deactivate an entire cartel also proved to be a difficult task for my father and with all the enemies he had, even more.

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.

As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.

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

I am not well suited to the tasks that are set before me today. Most of what I must do is either insulting to my intelligence, or far beyond my capabilities. This explains why I am so frustrated and full of rage most of the time.

The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.

He was a superb military officer but he was also an extraordinarily gifted politician. That he was an unusually open, honest and no-nonsense politician did not make him unsuited for the profession, only uncommon. In uniform and in politics Barry's purpose was always the defense of freedom. And nobody before or since managed the task more ably or more colorfully than Barry Goldwater.

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.

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

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.

No apology is equal to the task set before it.

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

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

If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rather than social need. Now it is a work of necessity.

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

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

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.

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?