Tasks Quotes

“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Hard tasks need hard ways.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“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, The First Love Stories: From Isis and Osiris to Tristan and Iseult

“J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible."

("I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.")

[Letter to Jules Boucoiran, 4 March 1831]”
― George Sand, Correspondance

“People who understand how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom. They have too many important tasks to accomplish that they can hardly get bored.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“One way businesses become more efficient is when technology allows employees to simplify tasks.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“You have a limited amount of time to get things done during the course of a given day. It follows that you should limit the scope of your to-do list to accommodate this constraint. If you only have four hours at your disposal, make sure the items on your to-do list can be completed within that time frame. Otherwise, you’ll set yourself up for failure.”
― Damon Zahariades, To-Do List Formula: A Stress-Free Guide To Creating To-Do Lists That Work!

“I keep a list as close as my phone, and draw a deep sense of satisfaction each time I strike a task from it. In such erasure lies joy. No matter how much I give of myself to household chores, each of the rooms under my control swiftly unravels itself again in my aftermath, as though a shadow hand were already beginning the unwritten lists of my tomorrows…”
― Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

“Annie Dillard once wrote, “How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and that one is what we are doing.” I think about this a lot when I’m planning my day and what sort of pleasure I might suck out of its marrow during these tumultuous times of constant upheaval and war. Sometimes that means noticing even the most mundane of tasks in order to know we are alive, that we are living.”
― Ada Limon

“Make sure you understand when best you are effective and then schedule your most important tasks within that time of the day.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Procrastination isn’t task management, it’s feeling management.”
― Scott Ginsberg

“Stress also desynchronizes activation in different frontocortical regions, which impairs the ability to shift attention between tasks.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“Determine when you are most effective and energized, then plan your tasks within that time.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago, but I have no concentration: the time slips through my fingers like water.”
― Jess Row, The Train to Lo Wu

“Does it really take a full 9–5 to get our tasks done? Or … do we just “push paper,” masquerading as being productive while we are merely just running down the clock?”
― Richie Norton

“There’s the old saying about ‘killing two birds with one stone’. However, most of us aren’t paying enough attention to know what the birds are, and even if we did we wouldn’t know where to find the stones. So maybe we should start looking for both.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It's interesting that the woman who wrote that treatise – the one you all practically worship in Alethkar –decided that all of the feminine tasks involve sitting around having fun while all the masculine ones involve finding someone to stick a spear in you. Telling, eh?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Multitasking is overrated - I'd rather do one thing well than many things badly. Quality supersedes quantity every time.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Chikako and Ben's lives are inexorably linked linked to an ever-expanding list of seasonal tasks. In summer, they work through the garden bounty, drying and pickling the fruits and vegetables at peak ripeness. Fall brings chestnuts to pick, chili paste to make, mushrooms to hunt. Come winter, Noto's seas are flush with the finest sea creatures, which means pickling fish for hinezushi and salting squid guts for ishiri. In the spring, after picking mountain vegetables and harvesting seaweed, they plant the garden and begin the cycle that will feed them, their family, and their guests in the year ahead.”
― Matt Goulding, Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture

“I recommend that you look at the tasks you are doing throughout your day and ask yourself if these things are bringing you closer to your goals?”
― Richie Norton

“Life is not a list of tasks but moments of experiences.”
― Lebo Grand

“Something that can be done at any time is often done at no time. Do it now, or decide when you'll do it.”
― Gretchen Rubin, Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness

“The voice of Fr. Stephen came to him across the years as it often did. He had been in despair one day at the monastery over a task given to him by an elderly irascible Monk. “There are impossibilities in your mind that not impossibilities in the small world of your living,” Father Stephen said. “Before you reject a task as Impossible, ask yourself why God presented you with this thing to be done.”
― William Edmund Barrett, A Woman in the House

“So much time is wasted switching from one task to another. By batching repetitive tasks, once wasted time is recovered and can be used for other things. ⁣”
― Richie Norton

“While others see their job as a task, catch fun with yours.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“Where two or three are gathered, a seemingly difficult task gets done.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“Dreams are to be lived. Dreams are the starting point for goals, plans and focus. Without dreams, we are just robots completing tasks. Empty shells of what could have been human beings.”
― Jerry A. Greenberg, Dreams Are To Be Lived

“The solution to the overwhelmed is not despair, but simply to release some focus [of tasks] according to priority.”
― Monaristw

“Goals inside experience are tasks. Goals outside experience are growth.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“We must offer all our acts to God and believe that He excepts them. Then hold firmly to that position and keep insisting that every act of every hour of the day and night be included in the transaction. Keep reminding God in our times of private prayer that we mean every act for His glory; then supplement those times by a thousand thought-prayers as we go about the job of living. Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God