Best tasks & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.”

People Thinking Want Jobs Given Company Comfort Prove Built Tasks Majority Structure Minorities

Author:Mark Pincus

“Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.”

Thinking Needs Writing Persons Self Would Be Walks Fiction Ignorance Equal Tradition Tasks Lifetime Library Average Genuine Genre Novelists Arrogance Bookstores Average Person Hubris

Author:Laura Lippman

“Some people think that, inevitably, every robot that does any task is a bad thing for the human race, because it could be taking a job away. But that isn't necessarily true. You can also think of the robot as making a person more productive and enabling people to do things that are currently economically infeasible. But a person plus a robot or a fleet of robots could do things that would be really useful.”

People Thinking Humans Persons Doe Would Be Jobs Race Tasks Human Race Productive Plus Bad Things Robots Enabling True You

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times.”

“But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.”

Thinking Life Has Beens I Can Life Is Struggle Inspire Tasks Be Good Miscellaneous Life Is Good

Author:Morgan Freeman

“The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.”

Thinking Mind May Demand Jokes Tasks Accents Reluctant

Book:The Art of Travel

Source: The Art of Travel

“Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a belief and hope for change in social roles and institutions. Healthy anger demands change and creates the confrontations needed for change to occur. It also gives the other an opportunity to help make that change. “Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.”

“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

“In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.”

Thinking World Numbers Materials Tasks Mathematics Realms Latter Rooted Masculine Transcendence Systems Thinking Material World

Author:Margaret Wertheim

“You need to make sure that you are where you think you are indispensable. And dedicate your task to that.”

Thinking Needs Tasks Indispensable

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.”

Thinking Long I Can Ends Done Helping Running Moving Order Lost Known Listening Goes On Losing Tasks Forgotten Accomplish Help Me Labour Long Runs Neglected Console Getting Lost

Book:The Unnamable

Source: The Unnamable

“You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.”

Thinking Knows Men Littles Important Different Action Ability One Thing Tasks Pressure Threat Dear Great Men One Time Really Great Little Man Smallness Pettiness

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't think of the user as making errors; think of the actions as approximations of what is desired.”

Thinking Action Attitude Objects Tasks Errors Imperfect Users Attempting Approximation

Author:Donald A. Norman

“When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not as using a computer but as doing the particular task. The computer is, in effect, invisible. The point cannot be overstressed: make the computer system invisible.”

Thinking Use Games Effects Particular Computer Creating Tasks Direct Drawing Invisible Manipulation Editing Playing Games Computer Systems Drawing Pictures

Author:Donald A. Norman

“Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.”

Thinking Doe Tasks Jargon

Book:Adorno

Source: Adorno

“What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.”

Thinking Courses Secret Tasks Vampire Menace Mona Lisa Blankness

Author:Camille Paglia

“The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture, which greatly facilitates the task of the fear-mongers and chauvinists, needs a very exact and nuanced diagnosis. I don't think that analogies from the totalitarian model, however suggestive, are sufficient.”

Thinking Needs States Culture United United States Dangerous Models Tasks Sufficient Mixtures Diagnosis Posture Analogies Facilitate

Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.”

“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

“The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies - and I rather doubt that they would - would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.”

Ifs Thinking Government Ability Party Doubt Policy Tasks Strategy British Labour Diminish Historic Alliances Irresponsible Programmes Nato Labour Party

Author:Richard Perle

“I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.”

Thinking Way Philosophy Shows Problem Answers Tasks Perceive

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.”

“The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.”

“Just as important as getting enough sleep is thinking about sleep in the right way. Stop thinking of sleep and naps as “downtime” or as a “waste of time.” Think of them as opportunities for memory consolidation and enhancing the brain circuits that help skill learning. Nor should you feel guilty about sleep. It's just as crucial a part of successful brain work as the actual task itself.”

Source: Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance

“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

“Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!”

Thinking Action Force Enemy Worst Projects Tasks Election Managers Fragile Procrastination Momentum Implications Deadline Project Management Worst Enemy Election Day

Book:The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every

Source: The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every

“I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or sociologists. A writer's job, is to, by way of fiction, somehow describe the way we live. And to me, this seems an important task, very worth doing, and I think also, to the reading public, it seems, even though they might not articulate it, it seems to them something worth doing also.”

People Thinking Way Looks Important Seems Might Jobs Reading Fiction Politician Tasks Ministers Telling The Truth Sociologists

Author:John Updike

“I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance, an awareness of something more than the day-to-day or the petty. I am not reading Emanuel Kant to try to embark on a task of seeing if I can understand myself, what the aesthetic experience is. But I wholeheartedly believe in it, even though I think not too many do nowadays.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Believe I Can Use Spiritual Form Hate Reading Seeing Awareness Tasks I Hate Guidance Aesthetic Day To Day Petty Wholeheartedly Spiritual Guidance

Author:Richard Meale

“Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.”

Thinking Facts Ability Tasks Gym Consumption Rats Alcoholics Degrading Gym Rats

Author:Clay Shirky

“Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”

Thinking Life Littles Done Able Building Tasks Manage Thoughtful Privacy Ruling Props Hoarding

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.”

Thinking Want Looks Art Film Situation Industry Reflection Tasks Aim Entertainment Artistic Dramatic Affected Entertainment Industry

Author:Michael Haneke

“I think directing yourself is a monumental task. Just to self edit as an actor, you work for some directors who don't give you a lot of feedback so you have to do that. That's a difficult thing to do as an actor.”

Thinking Giving Self Actors Difficult Directors Tasks Things To Do Feedback Difficult Things Edits

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the ' wall of separation,' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.”

Thinking Christian Found Religious Wall Areas Tasks Constitution Court Metaphor Separation Phrases Invocation

Author:Potter Stewart

“There's been a lot of talk about body cameras as a silver bullet or a solution. I think the task force concluded that there is a role for technology to play in building additional trust and accountability, but it's not a panacea, it has to be embedded in a broader change in culture and a legal framework that ensures that people's privacy is respected and that not only police officers but the community themselves feel comfortable with how technologies are being used.”

“I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing commanded, maybe it's the first thing forgotten. But it is the first admonition and it is absolutely unequivocal. It is part of right livelihood.”

Thinking Firsts Care Given Fronts Garden Tasks Environmental Forgotten Stewardship Livelihood Admonition Unequivocal

Author:Wes Jackson

“I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.”

Thinking Writing Done Feelings School Remember Three Term Paper Pages Tasks Accomplishment Term Paper

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.”

Thinking Needs Desire Tasks Impulse Superstitious

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure in the task. If you don't, you will drive yourself off a cliff because your fortunes will rise and fall, and if you identify too closely with that, you really will go insane.”

Ifs Thinking Purpose Fall Pleasure Expectations Tasks Fortune Insane Cliffs Rise And Fall Expectations Of Yourself

Author:Sarah Ruhl

“I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as an artist is to reach some form of catharsis yourself, and express something that allows an audience to have some form of catharsis. If there's no discovery in what you do, if there's no struggle in what you do to have that discovery, then, there's no meaning in what you do.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Form Artist Audience Struggle Discovery Tasks Theater Theatrical Catharsis

Author:Scott Cohen

“I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I believe that it's our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity.”

Thinking Believe Said Moving I Believe Social Prayer Answers Responsibility Poet Capacity Tasks Mirrors Injustice Social Injustice

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.”

Thinking Done Effects Degrees Tasks Influential Get It Done Framing

Author:James Surowiecki

“But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.”

Thinking Men Science Found Progress Impossible Despair Tasks Obstacles Undertakings Provinces Greatest Obstacles

Book:The Great Instauration

Source: The Great Instauration

“We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude yourself and frighten yourself with Iron Age fairy tales. This is a monumental task. I don't think there is an intellectual struggle more worthy of our efforts.”

Thinking World Age Effort Struggle Intellectual Tasks Curiosity Worthy Myth Tales Sufficient Fairy Iron Fairy Tale Convincing Infatuated

Author:Sam Harris

“I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Hard Facts Technology Novel Tasks Contemporary Novelists Contemporary Life

Author:Richard Powers

“Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.”

Thinking Dream Earth Easy Perfect Blood Poet Revolution Tasks Humble Lovely Bitter Acquaintance Involving Down To Earth Filth Disillusioned Tiresome

Author:Lu Xun

“I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time.”

Thinking Writing Mean Facts Novel Events Tasks Rose Profession Journalism Novelists Appropriate Turnover

Author:Ian Mcewan

“I'm very keen. Adaptations of other people's work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that'd be a really interesting task. I would happily write original screenplays as well. I think it's become one of my favorite genres.”

People Thinking Writing Wells Process Interesting Tasks Originals My Favorite Genre Fascinated Adaptation Really Interesting Screenplays

Author:Emma Donoghue

“Read Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Then do what it says, including the tasks you think are impossible. You will particularly hate the advice to write first thing in the morning, but if you can manage it, it might well be the best thing you ever do for yourself. This book is about becoming a writer from the inside out. Many later advice manuals derive from it. You don't really need any others, though if you want to boost your confidence, "how to" books seldom do any harm. You can kick-start a whole book with some little writing exercise.”

“It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.”

Tasks Quotes

Related topics

Tasks Quotes