Task Quotes

“Feeling confronted with the absurdity of life may sometimes nurture a personal satisfaction for those who like to set a paramount task or to create a compassionate mission. In so doing, the seal of absurdity becomes less unbearable, while it confers them a ‘Sisyphus’ status that transmutes them into heroes of human resilience. (“Sisyphus on the hill.)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“It is when things are at their worst that Allah will raise the best generation. The generation that the Prophet would be told Sahabat should look up to. So maybe the fact that you are living in the darkest of time means that Allah thinks you can be the strongest source of light.

Allah thinks you -- you -- were born for this time. That's Allah's decision. Which means you have something significant to offer the world. You have some serious trees to plant. And you have to not get overwhelmed with the news around you. Even if dajjal is tapping you on the shoulders. Say (to Dajjal), "Hold on, I'm planting a tree".

You do what you gotta do. You gotta focus.”
― Nouman Ali Khan

“If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."
This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.”
― Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.”
― Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else wanted, but I had treated each task as if it had been essential to do well -- a trick I had learned from my father.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Touch of Power

“The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is bad for people, whether they are good or bad for society in a period of evolution. May be a "voice crying in the wilderness", but only if that voice remains lively and uncompromising, it is possible to transform the desert into fertile land.”
― Erich Fromm, Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics

“The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.”
― Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“Put your heart and soul into whatever you do – but you won’t be able to do so until you have complete faith in whatever you are doing.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“There are certain things in this world that a person must do, even if they know it's impossible.”
― Meng Xi Shi, Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel), Vol. 2

“Dostoyevsky developed the theory that the worst torture one could possibly devise would be to force someone to endlessly perform an obviously pointless task.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“There were times I was so fatigued and confused at the end of my extreme night shifts that I could not shut down the facility. I would have to wait for the day staff to show up and let them take over the task.”
― Steven Magee, Night Shift Recovery

“Leadership is not child's play; it's a great responsibility like steering a ship and leading sheeps to the right destination.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“It is, indeed, very important for the moral philosopher to come up with new, illuminating theories about life and what is the best way to live it. But her toughest task is to live according to her teachings and to bring theory and practice as close as possible.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“The most challenging task in the world is to come out of our comfort zones.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“It takes a bit of conscious observation to recognize simplicity.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Half of the time I don’t know what I’m doing. The other half I think I know what I’m doing (which means half of that time I don’t know what I’m doing either). And sadly, whatever bit of me actually knows what it’s doing is often plagued by the doubt that it actually does.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Anointing is the divine enablement to fulfill a specific assignment in our life”
― Lucas D. Shallua

“If you have entered a path that no one else has taken, if you have embarked on a task that no one else has dared to do, you will have a rank that has not been given to anyone, and a destiny that has not been granted to anyone!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Despite I was tired, it was a comfort to stare at the red and brown stripes of the blanket in the lantern light and move my fingers along them. It was a steady, dependable task, as opposed to every other thing in my life at that moment, which was not currently steady.”
― Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone: A Novel

“Focus on one task at a time.”
― Chidiebere Orji Agbugba

“If the vision is consumed in the task of completing it, I have squandered both the vision and the task.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Fatigue might dictate the end of our efforts, but it rarely determines the conclusion of the task.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It's not our schedule that prevents us from timely completion of tasks, it's our failure to categorize the task based on its importance. Every task becomes less or more important if we figure out why.”
― Shahanshah Hafeez

“If it’s gone from a dream to a task, the dream was that it was a dream in the first place.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough

“The degree of risk is the measure of both the task itself as well as the person who has determined to undertake it.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough

“In an ever-changing world, keeping your brand up-to-date should be a serious and daily task.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“Time is so fast.
Life is too short.
Get that thing done!”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“Concentrate all your energies in completing the task at hand.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I was happy like I always was when existence was reduced to completing a single task or series of tasks. When I ceased to be a mind in charge of a body and became just the body itself.”
― Emma Sloley, The Island of Last Things