Tasks Quotes - Page 38

• This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Children, Powerful

  "Obama's Newtown speech - full text", www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2012.

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• If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Effort, Challenges

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• 'Get Out' takes on the task of exploring race in America, something that hasn't really been done within the genre since 'Night of the Living Dead' 47 years ago.

  Jordan Peele

  Night, Years, America

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.

  John Perry

  Bars, Common, Fantasy

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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• Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.

  John Perry

  Assessment, Perfection, Degrees

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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• I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as an artist is to reach some form of catharsis yourself, and express something that allows an audience to have some form of catharsis. If there's no discovery in what you do, if there's no struggle in what you do to have that discovery, then, there's no meaning in what you do.

  Scott Cohen

  Struggle, Artist, Thinking

  Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com

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• I'm still learning to be the best actor I can be, and I have a long way to go to get to the level I would like to be at. My focus is still 100% acting acting acting. Once I hit a point where I feel very comfortable as an actor - because you can never stop learning, I don't care how comfortable you get, you can never stop learning - but once I hit a point where I can get that comfort level of taking on the task of directing and having the confidence in myself to have people's respect when I give them direction, that's definitely something I want to do someday.

  Sean Faris

  Long, People, Giving

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you start with community and want to be faithful to community, you have to realize that what binds you together is not mutual compatibility or common tasks, but God. In order to stay in touch with that call to community, we always have to return to solitude.

  Henri Nouwen

  Order, Community, Solitude

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• 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.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Needs, Wrong Person

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Discovery, Clay

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Each horizon, each place holds its own evolutionary power be it the prairie or the plateaus, the mountains or the marshes at Great Salt Lake. For me, this is the nature of peace. Our task is to learn how to see it, feel it, hear it, and care for these places as our own home ground.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Lakes, Mountain

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I believe that it's our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Prayer, Believe, Moving

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• People ask what your vision is, what is your big vision? I say 'bhai', I got here by way of selling tea. I am a simple Chhota man. I like focusing on simple and small tasks. I want to accomplish big things for the little guy.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Simple, Men

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• A wonderful blend of technology & people power for India's growth, 'MyGov' has several discussion forums, on-line & on-ground tasks. I am delighted to invite you to join 'MyGov' & contribute towards taking India to greater heights of progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, People, Growth

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• Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful.

  James Surowiecki

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• 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.

  James Surowiecki

  Thinking, Degrees, Done

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you have a heightened emotional sensitivity and you have the ability to listen to multiple conversations at one time and multi-task.

  Ondi Timoner

  Emotional, Way, Firsts

  "SXSW Women Directors: Meet Ondi Timoner – ‘BRAND: A Second Coming’ and ‘The Last Mile’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 12, 2015.

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• God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Spiritual

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.56, Moody Publishers

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• The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love.

  Charles Fillmore

  Lying, Helping Others, Deeds

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• "If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane of art when love for the task-loyalty-is fused with the effort. Loyalty is the great lubricant of life. It saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. The man who is loyal to his work is not wrung nor perplexed by doubts, he sticks to the ship, and if the ship founders he goes down like a hero with colors flying at the masthead and the band playing."

  Thomas Watson

  Loyalty, Art, Hero

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• The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Leadership, Past, Needs

  Malcolm Fraser, Denis M. White, David Alistair Kemp (1986). “Malcolm Fraser on Australia”

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• The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.

  Virgil

  Lying, Night, Views

  Virgil (2015). “The Aeneid: "Illustrated"”, p.176, eKitap Projesi

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• It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Understanding, Approval

  Graham Greene, Marie-Françoise Allain (1991). “Conversations with Graham Greene”

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• When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

  Robert Townsend

  Leadership, Failure, People

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• Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

  David J. Schwartz

  Genius, Pay, Sticks

  David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.31, Random House

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