The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized.
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.
The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present.
One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
Quantum computation is. . . a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. . . It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.
The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
If a task is worthy of our attention, it is worthy of our best.
If you want a more democratic EU, communication has to be among its core tasks. There should be a legal foundation for it: Fifty years after the founding of the European project, communication belongs in the constitution.
The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.
It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.