Top 100 Task Done Quotes
#2. Learn to respect a craftsman's talent, to realize that a task done well seems easy but is terribly difficult.
David Morrell
#3. I did what you would probably have done in my place. I modestly declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me - and I privately felt, all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it.
Wilkie Collins
#4. Vision is about more than just getting things done, accomplishing some task, achieving something; it is about discovering and expanding our view of others, affirming them, believing in them, and helping them discover and realize the potential within them-helping them find their own voice.
Stephen Covey
#5. Be brief, be pointed, let your matter standLucid in order, solid and at hand;Spend not your words on trifles but condense;Strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense;Press to close with vigor, once begun,And leave, (how hard the task!) leave off, when done.
Joseph Story
#6. I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
Charles Lamb
#7. No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.
Woodrow Wilson
#8. With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love.
Diane Wolkstein
#9. Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.
Marc Morial
#10. Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.
George Peabody
#11. Be thankful for the people who have stood by you and cheered you on, but don't forget to be thankful for the ones that said it could not be done. Writing a book is no small task and even the skeptics can help you get where you want to be!
C.K. Webb
#12. Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done.
Horace
#13. There is a good chance that whatever it is you have to accomplish isn't as bad as you think it's going to be, and if you'd just do it, you could see that not only the task wasn't as daunting as you anticipated it would be, but you could get it done in less time than you thought it would take you.
Graham Elliot
#14. The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#15. It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.
Pope Francis
#16. When you have gaps in your memory like I do, you come to better appreciate the things you do remember. The way your hands just repeat a task you've done enough times, without even needing to think. Who needs Legacies when we have the infinite power of the human mind at our disposal?
Pittacus Lore
#17. Divide the big task into small pieces which can be done every day
Sunday Adelaja
#18. What year was it now? He couldn't even say. But finally, the task to which he'd dedicated himself was done.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#19. I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Solomon
#20. It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.
Elon Musk
#21. Nothing about my birth - or yours - was random or accidental. I was born for this time - and so were you. We were each chosen for a particular, cosmically important task that can be done by no one else.
Christine Caine
#22. Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
Queen Victoria
#23. Secret to Productivity is single tasking: Focus only on one task at hand. And don't start another till that one is completely done
Vivek Naik
#24. She had no time for anything humdrum, banal, or mundane - to the extent that the task of cleaning her desk at every night had to be done with a bottle of Perrier water and Chanel No. 5.
Anna Wintour
#25. It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done ...
Douglas Hofstadter
#26. Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
John Keegan
#27. Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#28. Spirit doesn't blame for work not done. Life doesn't depend on whether something gets done or not.
Work isn't the source of happiness. Your attitude toward your work, not the task itself, comes first.
Deepak Chopra
#30. 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
#31. Everyone is born with the nimit (karmic evidentiary instruments). I too, am born with nimit. With this body, so and so number of tasks [work] will be done by him, such is the nimit!
Dada Bhagwan
#32. Where there is lack of faith, There is a lack of respect. Employ reticence, and care with words. When the work is done and the task complete The people will say: 'It just happened.
Lao-Tzu
#33. Add a task to a busy person's plate, and it will get done in short order. Add a task to the plate of someone with nothing to do, and it will never get done.
Wes Fesler
#34. She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the task were done and she had only to wait; so quietly that, as he came close, her outstretched hands acted not as a check but as a guide to him.
Edith Wharton
#35. The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of re-education and re-generation that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.
Chinua Achebe
#36. But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.
John Milton
#37. Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.
Michael Porter
#38. Children, in the present dark age of materialism, chanting the mantra is the easiest way for us to obtain inner purification and concentration. Japa can be done at any time, anywhere, without observing any rule regarding the purity of mind and body. Japa can be done while engaged in any task.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#39. To seek out beauty in our work is to make a pilgrimage of our labors, to understand that the consummation of work lies not only in what we have done, but who we have become while accomplishing the task.
David Whyte
#40. He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#41. There has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation.
Cesar Chavez
#42. That if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#43. And I used to think, after all, I'll do a whole mass of things, I'll not die, no way! There's a task to be done and I'm a giant! And now the giant's only task is to die decently, although no one cares a damn about that ... Still, I won't start wagging my tail.
Ivan Turgenev
#44. Get done with the damn sibling rivalry and let's get back with the task at hand here so we can figure out what we're going to do.
Pixie Lynn Whitfield
#45. When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, It happened to us naturally.
Laozi
#46. There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.
John Shaw Billings
#47. It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
Eduardo Paes
#48. Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start
with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best
leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will
say 'We have done this ourselves.
Lao-Tzu
#49. I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. There are no boundaries concerning your passion for education. No harm done, no offense given! Those who take education as an ass-suffering task makes it so because they have a phobia for alphabets.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#51. No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#52. In life, you should seek the help you need. Do not depend on your own strength alone. You have never done all you can to finish a task until you have sought help from the Lord.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#53. There is no task in life that cannot be done for God's glory.
Tim Challies
#54. There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules
Terence McKenna
#55. I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.
Jimmy Buffett
#56. Remember that, as George Whitefield said, man is immortal till his work is done (though God alone defines the work), and get on with what you know to be God's task for you here and now.
J.I. Packer
#57. I learned, as the raft moved and I slid through the day, as the day slid through me, to let the task be master: which is only not to choose to do anything but what has chosen me to be done.
John Crowley
#58. It is worse than useless to do things halfway Bee, for then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get less done, it is better to do the whole task the first time.
Robin Hobb
#59. There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.
Alexander Meiklejohn
#60. '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
#61. 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
#62. Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the creative mind of my readers. I had my turn to make of it what I would, now it is their turn.
Katherine Paterson
#63. Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Laozi
#65. The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know it. So the task is not to get God to do something I think needs to be done, but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can respond to it and participate and take delight in it.
When
Eugene H. Peterson
#66. It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.
Joyce Kilmer
#67. Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.
Brian Tracy
#68. Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop. An
Brian Tracy
#69. Each one of them would have gladly done the task, but all they could do now was watch and wait as sticks and stones did their best to batter Ty to his knees in those cold waves.
Madeleine Urban
#70. The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple - to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
Craig Raine
#71. I feel my task is done. I feel a sense of satisfaction, ... It's the moment and I seized it.
Max Mosley
#72. To keep Nigeria ONE, is a task that must be DONE ...
Barack Obama
#73. It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just that. Memorable performances of wonderful songs that ensure Luther's legacy will live on forever.
Clive Davis
#74. If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.
Barry Eisler
#75. In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.
Thomas Frank
#76. I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.
Winston Churchill
#77. Make a plan that concern your purpose, your calling and describes exactly what should be done every day for your purpose and life mission
Sunday Adelaja
#78. When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.
Lynn Hill
#79. Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#80. I get the most work done when I'm procrastinating. While avoiding an unpleasant task, I find several other tasks twice as unpleasant, and get those out of the way first.
Marcia K. Matthews
#81. As the world grows faster and more interdependent, we need to figure out ways to scale the fluidity of teams across entire organizations: groups with thousands of members that span continents, like our Task Force. But this is easier said than done.
Stanley McChrystal
#82. You carry on. That's what he'd always done. That's the task that comes with surviving, whether you deserve to live or not. You remember the dead as best you can. You say some words for them. Then you carry on, and you hope for better.
Joe Abercrombie
#83. The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#84. One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.
Og Mandino
#85. The good chair is a task one is never completely done with
Hans Wegner
#86. So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.
William Ernest Henley
#87. 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.
David Lubar
#88. We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.
Jennifer Granholm
#89. You could have thrown her into the fire, that's what you could have done. Then it would save me the task of killing her myself! -Ben Deverill
Alexandra May
#90. Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.
Sophia Lyon Fahs
#91. Learn from the people
Plan with the people
Begin with what they have
Build on what they know
Of the best leaders
When the task is accomplished
The people will remark
We have done it ourselves.
Lao-Tzu
#92. It would be as if a king sent you to a village on a specific mission. If you went and performed a hundred other tasks, but neglected to accomplish the task for which you were sent, it would be as though you had done nothing.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#93. The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.
George Edward Woodberry
#94. Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.
J. Oswald Sanders
#95. Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
Benjamin Cardozo
#96. Fear no more the heat o' the sun
Nor the furious winter's rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must
As chimney sweepers come to dust
Pierce Brown
#97. The real leaders intend to do definitely that good task for which a pretender has provoked them by saying that it can't be done, but the good number of pretenders tend to do only that job for which a real leader has cautioned them by showing the things that should not be done.
Anuj
#98. No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.
Richard Perle
#99. Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.
Mark Zuckerberg
#100. Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!
Arthur Hugh Clough
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