Daily Tasks Quotes - Page 2

• We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work slowly and consistently. Anthony Trollope, the nineteenth-century writer who managed to be a prolific novelist while also revolutionizing the British postal system, observed, “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Running, Creativity, Long

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• To do well those thing which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman... We should never be discouraged in those daily tasks which God has ordained to the common lot of man... Let us not be trying to substitute an artificial life for the true one.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Mother, Father, Successful

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• I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Lunch, Dinner, Return

  "Oscar Niemeyer Talks About Brasilia, Communism, Regrets". Interview with Michael Luongo, www.bloomberg.com. December 7, 2012.

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• It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

  Aristotle

  Tyrants, People, Poor

  "Politics" by Aristotle, Book V, (1313b.16),

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• Algunas personas han nacido para trabajar para otros. No de forma servil y descerebrada, sino con un régimen fijo de tareas y funciones diarias. Otros nacieron con espíritu emprendedor y disfrutan con las exigencias de la autodeterminación y el juego de dados.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Determination, Work, Self

  Richard Paul Evans (2001). "El milagro de la caja de Navidad: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope", p.75, Simon and Schuster

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