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Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future. Instead, focus only on the task at hand.
— Siddhattha Gotama
I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
— Willem Dafoe
Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.
— Tony La Russa
Intense focusing on a task can make people effectively blind, even to stimuli that
— Daniel Kahneman
The mind can wander while still focusing on one task.
— Herbert Benson
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
— Simone De Beauvoir
His memories were too sad, his hopes too thin. To have to say things on paper seemed a terrible task, for it stirred the memories.
— Larry McMurtry
Our task is to accept each moment and move on from there, continuing to do our level best.
— John Daishin Buksbazen
What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
— Bill Parcells
Only those with tenacity can march forward in March
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The primary task for the executive targeting first 100 days success is to set out the right strategic priorities and stay focused on them.
— Niamh O'Keeffe
I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.
— Kobe Bryant
Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
— Arnold Bennett
Once taken off one task without completing the transaction, the mind continues to seek closure. Fight to stay focused on the task at hand.
— Jeff Davidson
We ought to arrange calendars as we arrange art on our walls and ask: how does this task fit next to the surrounding ones?
— Sendhil Mullainathan
I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.
— Terry Matthews
To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
— R.C. Sproul
Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Awarness of potential distractions is helpful untill it limits your ability to focus on the task at hand
— Kirsten Beyer
Dora sat on a corner of the spread rug, longing to be assigned some task so she could resent it.
— Shirley Hazzard
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
— Peter F. Drucker
Now I spend hours on headlines - days if necessary. And when I get a good headline, I know that my task is nearly finished.
— John Caples
Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.
— Paulo Coelho
Concentrate on your task.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.
— William Zinsser
On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's fault.
— Jakob Nielsen
The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.
— John Harvey-Jones
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
— Gerhard Richter
Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
— Blaise Pascal
Knowing your purpose on earth is simple, but the task here is to bring about the success of your destiny.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
This is a precious gateway into the alleviation of suffering, which I believe to be our principal task on this earth.
— Dalai Lama XIV
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
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
— Otto Von Bismarck
I focus on the moment and move from task to task.
— Tyler Seguin
Standing there on display was painful enough. Now came the truly unfortunate task of socializing. — V.E Schwab
The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice.
— Richard A. Falk
The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.They taught me I had a language in heaven
and another language on earth. — Mahmoud Darwish
Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.
— Ann-Marie MacDonald
Flow neatly separates the two forms of effort: concentration on the task and the deliberate control of attention.
— Daniel Kahneman
When people depend on my Taskthey trust my soul and heart,
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
August 19, 2016
Amen
God — Petra Hermans
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
— Olivia De Havilland
Traditional project management focuses on task-level details and loses sight of the benefits projects aim to deliver.
— Terry Schmidt
A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.
— Robin Sloan
on a task usually also want the authority
— Darian Rodriguez Heyman
Craftsmanship means dwelling on a task for a long time and going deeply into it, because you want to get it right.
— Matthew B. Crawford
Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.
— Guy Maddin
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
— Franz Grillparzer
When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.
— Dean Koontz
We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.
— Heinrich Himmler
Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.
— Agatha Christie
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
— Henry Kissinger
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
— Garth Ennis
Over time, stress hormones from multitasking can damage memory centers in the brain. Focus on one task at a time for better efficiency and memory.
— Peter Lawrence
Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list
— James C. Collins
Through the act of getting married, one has taken on the task of mutual confrontation until death.
— Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig
That which we persist on doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed , but our ability to do has increased.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.
— Shereen El Feki
It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
— Margaret Mead
Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
— Alfie Kohn
Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.
— Mark McCormack
I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.
— Mike Nichols
When you slow down and focus on completing one task at a time, your life will automatically diversify.
— Franklin Gillette
The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.
— Isoroku Yamamoto
Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.
— Richard Russo
The task of understanding a culture built on the oral tradition is impossible to students steeped in the written tradition. p.55
— Harold A. Innis
All fiction is based on fact and moves into fantasy. It is the writer's task to make the unbelievable believable.
— Chloe Thurlow
Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.
— Erik Spoelstra
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
— Charles Baudelaire
There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.
— Joyce Brothers
We are people of destiny; every one of us has a purpose and definite tasks to accomplish on earth
— Sunday Adelaja
Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.
— Jeremy Renner
It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
— Donald Rumsfeld
