Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge
Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.
There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.
I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list.
A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.
Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.
I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.
To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.
Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward.
Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and environment united. The time has come for biology to enter the nonlinear world.
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.
People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.
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.
Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task. . . for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.
The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
The development of an organism. . . may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. . . . A central task of developmental biology is to discover the underlying algorithm from the course of development.