“Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.” I CanMomentsHandsEyePainFacesNextHoursChallengesBreakToo MuchPiecesSadnessLonelinessTasksHorseSizeIllnessHandleBitesHands UpSmall PiecesBlinders Author:Regina Brett
“Remember the importance of phrases... a piece of something, an entry, a moment, a mark. This adjusts the pressure of the giant task of creating the perfect masterwork.” MomentsRememberPerfectPiecesCreatingTasksImportanceMarkPressurePhrasesGiantsEntry Author:Sara Genn
“One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...” HumansLawNightUnderstandingImaginationPowerfulPiecesMaterialsColdTerribleTasksMachinesComplicatedFedsEnginesIrelandMachineryTerrible ThingsGrindEducation SystemPredeterminedRuthlessnessEnglish Education Author:Patrick Pearse
“When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task.” HomeSpacePerfectPiecesBuddhismTasksPlantSuitsFurniture Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his creatures, that their personalities clearly and organically unfold before the eyes of the audience so that the latter feel that the actions of these people are contingent upon their characters, that there exists some kind of a logical fate, and that nothing is left to mere accident or coincidence.” PeopleGivingFeelsKindLittlesCharacterEyeActionLeftAudiencePiecesFatePersonalityCreaturesTasksMereInsightAccidentsCharacteristicsLatterLogicalCoincidence Author:Ernst Lubitsch
“But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.” MovingPiecesDemandTasksChessChecksReachingFacultySalaryImpatientWaiterContemplativePastries Book:Chips Off the Old Benchley Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley
“Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'” IfsShouldWritingHelpingShowsNaturalCasesPiecesStyleTasksTendenciesEditorsEditingCollaboratingEditing And Writing Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.” IfsDoneUseWantedPiecesCreatingTasksComplicatedSomething NewSoftwareRepetitive Author:Bill Gates