Quotes About Mundane Tasks

#1. The truth of the matter is, these mundane tasks must be done. There is no getting around them. Almost everyone has to do a task on a daily basis that is less than fun. The key is to find pleasure in the task and to not wish you were doing something else while doing it.

Jennifer L. Scott

#2. Story cannot be "studied." It is learned through assimilation, through living in its proximity with those who know it, live it, and teach it - more so through all the day-to-day mundane tasks of life, much more than the clearly ceremonial times. The

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#3. It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom ... So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving ... help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow ... from small but deliberate deeds!

Spencer W. Kimball

#4. Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

Aaron Swartz

#5. But I was not, in the true sense of the word, alive. I simply performed the mundane tasks that were handed to me, one after another

Haruki Murakami

#6. , But the streets need cleaning, brother," Gromph said.
"That is why the gods gave us magic, brother," Jarlaxle replied in the same smug tone. "To perform the mundane tasks of life.

R.A. Salvatore

#7. As a woman you must unite with other women for a while and perhaps even reject the world of men, just to balance yourself.

Frederick Lenz

#8. If, when reading and walking at the same time, he bumped into a lamppost, he would apologize and check that the lamppost was unhurt.

Katherine Rundell

#9. I was surprised to see that the pupil remained small and did not noticeably dilate as she talked and listened. Unlike the tasks that we were studying, the mundane conversation apparently demanded little or no effort - no more than retaining two or three digits.

Daniel Kahneman

#10. I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing.

George Clooney

#11. Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.

B.F. Skinner

#12. The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#13. Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

John D. Voelker

#14. As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

Mark Helprin

#15. Hopeful dreams - even where crack kings' and dope fiends feast. Dust from the ash and rubble; they shine like bright stars once the mic is gripped and the bars are spit.

T.F. Hodge

#16. Every day should be unwrapped as a gift.

Harry Harrison