Best tasks & hands Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men: But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.”

Men Heart Done Hands Would Be Sun Fire Tasks Eternity Warm Stealing Flames Immortal Working It Sparks Torn Thrust Claws Beaks Prometheus

Book:Main Street, and Other Poems

Source: Main Street, and Other Poems

“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 Can Moments Hands Eye Pain Faces Next Hours Challenges Break Too Much Pieces Sadness Loneliness Tasks Horse Size Illness Handle Bites Hands Up Small Pieces Blinders

Author:Regina Brett

“Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.”

Firsts Humans Long Ideas Hands Lasts Values Common Issues Resources Advantage Tasks Common Sense Endeavor Capitalist Multitudes Long Life Idealist Devotee Firsts And Lasts

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.”

Hands Revolution Tasks Obligation Peaceful Constructive Great Change Peaceful Revolution

Author:John F. Kennedy

“So robots are good at very simple things like cleaning the floor, like doing a repetitive task. Our robots have a little tiny bit of common sense. Our robots know that if they've got something in their hand and they drop it, it's gone. They shouldn't go and try and put it down.”

Ifs Knows Trying Littles Hands Bits Simple Common Gone Tasks Tiny Common Sense Robots Cleaning Simple Things Repetitive

Author:Rodney Brooks

“I think if I'm guilty of anything, I'm guilty of always being incredibly focused on the task at hand. So wherever I've worked, I've just always tried to do my best, achieve my best, build a great team around me.”

Ifs Thinking Hands Team Achieve Tasks Focused Guilty Great Team Task At Hand

Author:Angela Ahrendts

“We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.”

Knows World Feels Use Hands Form Mother Growth Nature Shapes Tasks Strive Wide Checks Barriers Rude Centre Prudent Wanton Deformity Pow Prunes Uncouth

Author:John Armstrong

“I encourage everyone I know that whether it be in their workplace, whether it be in a political arena or within their own families, to do what their gut tells them to do. And that involves calling it like they see it and tackling the tasks that are at hand and not worrying so much what other people are thinking or saying about them.”

People Thinking Knows Hands Political Worry Calling Tasks Guts Workplace Arena Tackling Not Worrying

Author:Sarah Palin

“In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“Be brief, be pointed, let your matter standLucid in order, solid and at hand;Spend not your words on trifles but condense;Strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense;Press to close with vigor, once begun,And leave, (how hard the task!) leave off, when done.”

Matter Hard Done Hands Order Mass Tasks Presses Strikes Trifles Vigor

Book:Life and Letters of Joseph Story: Edited by his son William W. Story. (Mit 1 Porträt.)

Source: Life and Letters of Joseph Story: Edited by his son William W. Story. (Mit 1 Porträt.)

“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.”

Thinking Important Hands Focus Tasks Important Things Persistence Stubborn Task At Hand

Author:Terry Matthews

“I don't, as my mom would say, sweat the small stuff in our relationship. Because when I think of day-to-day irritations that you might have with the one you love, they're nothing compared to the bigger task at hand.”

Thinking Hands Might Stuff Mom Tasks Bigger My Mom Sweat Our Relationship Day To Day One You Love Irritation Small Stuff Task At Hand Sweat The Small Stuff

Author:Michelle Obama

“Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.”

Ideas Hands Tasks

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Lay down the axe; fling by the spade; Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms like yours were fitter now; And let the hands that ply the pen Quit the light task, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein The charger on the battle-field.”

War Hands Light Fields Like You Arms Battle Tasks Lays Track Quitting Brands Pens Blades Crooked Rifles Reins Fling Spades Bayonets Horsemen Toiling Plies

Author:William C. Bryant

“Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.”

Hands Understanding Skills Equal Tasks Critics Destroying Pulling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.”

Men Hands Death Fame Tasks Envy Chains Gates Another Man Captives

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

“Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.”

Mean Hands Energy Tasks Accomplish Spending Dedication Task At Hand

Author:Anil Sinha

“marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing such a wonderful return for one small seed, that keeps marrow-growers at their dubious task.”

“Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.”

Source: Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958

“You are not called to believe in your love to God, but in God's love to you! Do not argue, 'I cannot love God! I have striven to my uttermost to do so, but have failed in all my endeavors, until in despair I have abandoned the thought and relinquished the attempt.' Be it so- no effort of your own can strike a spark of love to God from your heart. Nor does God demand the task at your hands. All that He requires of you is faith in His love, as embodied and expressed in Jesus Christ to poor sinners.”

Believe Heart Doe Hands Jesus Christ Poor Effort Demand Despair Jesus Christ Tasks Strikes Arguing God Love Sinner Endeavor Sparks Abandoned Believe In You His Love God's Love

Author:Octavius Winslow

“On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.”

“Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.”

“Cooking with your kids and engaging them in hands-on activities are two ways to begin to educate children about the healthy eating, and kick start the important task to help change how the younger generation looks at food and nutrition.”

Way Looks Children Two Important Helping Hands Kids Generations Healthy Activity Eating Tasks Cooking Kicks Educate Nutrition Engaging Two Ways Younger Generation Healthy Eating

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.”

Source: The judgment of history

“Good teams focus on the task at hand. They don't care what's happened the last 13 days, they worry about today and they worry about getting better. That's what good teams do.”

Hands Care Today Lasts Worry Focus Happened Team Tasks Don't Care Get Better Good Team Task At Hand

Author:Mike Zimmer

“During the financial crisis, I worked with hundreds of executives who struggled as a result of their thoughts about job security. When their beliefs changed, so did their emotional experience - and they were then able to focus on the task at hand more effectively.”

Hands Able Jobs Belief Results Focus Security Changed Emotional Tasks Crisis Financial Executives Financial Crisis Task At Hand

Author:Andrew Bernstein

“There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point of all goodness. It comes bringing with it, if not the freshness of innocence, yet a glow of inspiration that nerves feeble hands for hard tasks, a fire of hope that lights anew the old high ideal, so that it stands before the eye in clear relief, beckoning to make it out on its own.”

Ifs Soul Hard Hands Light Inspiration Eye Desire Clear Fire Goodness Forgiveness Ideals Tasks Starting Innocence Relief Nerves Thirst Pardon Consuming Starting Point Freshness Beckoning

Author:Charles Brent

“I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.”

People World Want Wells Done Hands Moving Common Fire Fields Shapes Tasks Clean Rhythm Dust Bags Evident Harvest Mud Well Done Parlor

Book:Circles on the Water

Source: Circles on the Water

“The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on time. My lieutenant would say, 'If you don't, you die.' In many ways, life is the same. If you don't pay attention to a timeline, you lose out on the ability to accomplish the task at hand.”

Ifs Way Done Hands Life Is Dies Loses Ability Pay Attention Military Taught Tasks Importance Accomplish Missions Pay Attention Timely Completing Lieutenants Timelines Task At Hand

Author:Don Young

“Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or even if one never is, such grace meets one in God's creation. There is grace in the pear tree that blooms and blushes. There is common grace in the sea (that massive cleanliness which we are proceeding to corrupt), in the fact that there was, before we laid hands on it, clean air. Our task is to appreciate that grace.”

Ifs World Said Facts Hands Born Common Grace Air Tree Sea Creation Appreciate Tasks Clean Available Massive Cleanliness Proceeding Baptized Pears Augustine God's Creation Clean Air

Author:Joseph Sittler

“Unlike most of life, what you do really matters. Your actions have real consequences. You have to pay attention and focus, and that's very satisfying. It forces you to pay great attention and you lose yourself in the task at hand. Without the risk, that wouldn't happen, so the risk is an essential part of climbing, and that's hard for some people to grasp. You can't justify the risk when things go wrong and people die. The greater the risk, the greater the reward in most aspects of life, and in climbing that's certainly true, too. It's very physical, you use your mind and your body.”

“DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.”

Hands Happens Eye Focus Wonderful Tasks Things Happen Wonderful Things Inadequacy Nervousness Task At Hand

Author:Barbara Sher

“The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.”

Needs Hands Tasks Tyranny Hardest Completion

Author:Socrates

“God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.”

Men Heart Persons Doe Use Hands Joy Order Comfort Tasks Selfish Ease Head And Heart Hearts And Hands

Book:Good Tidings of Great Joy: The Birth of Jesus the Messiah

Source: Good Tidings of Great Joy: The Birth of Jesus the Messiah

“It turns out, that men, when they're taking care of their business, they're not fully attending to the task at hand, but, I'm sure there's an evolutionary explanation for this, if you give them a target, they will aim.”

Ifs Men Giving Hands Care Turns Tasks Aim Explanation Target Attending Task At Hand

Author:Richard Thaler

“Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite hazards of all kinds, to attack the task at hand. Often, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.”

Men Kind Hands Able Danger He Man Tasks Stupidity Despite All Kinds Warning Traits Admirable Plunge Hazards Task At Hand

Book:Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -

Source: Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -

“Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.”

Different Hands Brain Activity Research Tasks Structure Circuits Neuroplasticity Task At Hand

Author:Naveen Jain

“The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task at hand covers both bases, but not often.”

Kind Persons Two Sometimes Hands Jobs Pay Creative Tasks Bases Bills Sexy Creative Person Task At Hand

Author:Derek Sivers

“This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.”

Years Humans Hands Suffering Amount Approach Tasks Painful Clarity Ongoing Funding Inadequate Human Suffering Task At Hand

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“I feel most vulnerable when I am underprepared - for instance, if I have an audition and haven't worked through the material enough beforehand. Also, if I am running late, I feel completely vulnerable because I am usually the person who is early to everything so that I can settle down and breathe before jumping in to the task at hand.”

Ifs Feels Persons I Can Enough Hands Running Havens Materials Late Tasks Down And Breathe Instance Vulnerable Settling Auditions Jumping Settling Down Task At Hand Jumping In Running Late

Author:Renee Marino

“Almost religiously, I step away from everything and close my eyes and breathe deeply for a few moments. It helps solidify my focus and aligns everything in my body to take care of the task at hand - which is winning, of course.”

Moments Helping Body Hands Eye Care Courses Winning Steps Focus Tasks Take Care Breathe Task At Hand

Author:Amanda Beard

“With a clear mind that is reinforcing positivity back into myself and my craft, I am able to focus my energy on the task at hand and enjoy my experiences and day.”

Mind Hands Able Energy Enjoy Clear Focus Tasks Positivity Crafts Task At Hand Clear Minds

Author:Allison Holker

“When you're focused at the task at hand and you believe in the man who is running for president and the man who is running for vice president, we just want it to be objective and fair.”

Men Want Believe Hands Running President He Man Fairs Tasks Vices Focused Objectives Vice President Task At Hand

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“I have purpose. My life has meaning. I am engaged in a profession that I'm passionate about. I have some place to go every day. I'm expected. There's always a task at hand. I have beautiful relationships in my life. I have a beautiful home, I go to meetings. I work with others. I stay busy.”

Home Hands Beautiful Purpose Tasks Meetings Busy Passionate Profession Expected Engaged Places To Go Task At Hand

Author:Mackenzie Phillips

“I felt when I was elected that the most important task on this island [Ireland] was to extend the hand of friendship right across the board to the people of Northern Ireland, to have the beginnings of a real peace process. In consequence, although I have no role in intergovernmental talks or political discussions, that would be my very top priority.”

People Important Real Hands Would Be Political Felt Process Roles Consequence Tasks Priorities Discussion Boards Islands Ireland Top Priorities Northern Ireland

Author:Mary Robinson

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

Inspirational Hard Hands Motivational Jobs Success Winning Loses Work Successful Hard Work Losing Determination Tasks Entrepreneur Perseverance Determined Coaches Entrepreneurship Coaching Hard Times Motivational Sports Dedicated Dedication Congratulations Inspirational Sports Funny Inspirational Basketball Coaching Price Winning And Losing Win Or Lose Hardwork Motivational Inspirational Sports Determination And Success Will And Determination Successful Entrepreneurs Best Success Determination Motivational Great Sports Hard Work Pays Off Great Coach Determination Perseverance Best Of Me Inspirational Determination Great Motivational Sports Greatest Athlete Hardwork And Determination Motivational Coaching Hard Work Success Inspirational Coach Hard Work Comes Success Motivation And Determination Best Coaches Dedication And Perseverance Great Coaching Inspirational Coaching Task At Hand Hard Work And Success Hard Work And Determination Price Of Success Hard Work And Dedication Motivate Athletes Famous Hard Working Perseverance And Hard Work Perseverance Sports Dedication And Determination Work Dedication Determination By Famous People Hard Work Dedication

Author:Vince Lombardi

“Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.”

People Thinking Want Trying Hands Moving Focus Tasks Task At Hand

Author:Jeremy Renner

“I love this world ... That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was in when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands.”

Knows World Want Trying Littles I Can Hard States Done Hands Dies Found Voice Can Do This World Tasks Complexes Storm Stem

Author:Charles de Lint

“Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth and was lifting me off my feet as I kicked. Cornwall made as to draw his dagger, but Regan pulled him away. "You've just won a kingdom, my duke, killing vermin is a servant's task. Leave the bitter fool stew in his own bile." She wanted me. It was clear.”

Made Hands Wanted Next Clear Feet Fool Husband Draws Mouths Tasks Killing Kingdoms Bitter Servant Halls Captains Say Anything Lifting Dukes Daggers Stew Vermin Cornwall Regan

Author:Christopher Moore

“...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.”

Ifs Matter Enough Moments Hands Wise Appreciate Tasks Awake Charmed Task At Hand Charmed Life

Author:Katrina Kenison

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