Task At Hand Quotes - Page 2

• ...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.

  Katrina Kenison

  Wise, Hands, Appreciate

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• He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent on the task at hand that he never looked over his shoulder, even if his cloak got caught in a thorny bush. When he did turn to speak to somebody, he used to swing his entire body and address him full face. When he shook hands, he was never the first to withdraw his own. He inspired such confidence that he was known as al-Amin, the Reliable One.

  Karen Armstrong

  Swings, Hands, Dresses

  "Muhammad: A Biography of The Prophet". Book by Karen Armstrong, 1991.

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• La atención es energía psíquica y, al igual que la energía física, si no asignamos una parte de ella a la tarea que tenemos entre manos, no se realiza ningún trabajo.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Empresa, Trabajo, Manos

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). "Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning", p.63, Penguin

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• Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning. We only notice it when it’s too hot, too cold, making too much noise, or the unit is dripping on us. Yet, if the air conditioning is perfect, nobody say anything and we focus, instead, on the task at hand.

  Jared Spool

  Thinking, Air, Hands

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• 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.

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Beautiful, Home, Hands

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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• When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand.

  Tommy Mottola

  Hands, Giving, Feelings

  "Tommy Mottola: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 3013.

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• Podría darte consejos absolutamente estupendos sobre cómo evitar escribir, cómo cuando se te acaban las cosas que hacer aparte de ir a tu escritorio y escribir, cuando todos los armarios están reorganizados y has llamado a tu pariente vivo más viejo dos veces en un día para ver en qué anda y no queda ni un correo electrónico sin contestar en tu ordenador o simplemente no puedes soportar contestar a otro y no queda ni una gota de dignidad, ni una gota, en cualquier otra evasión de la tarea que tienes entre manos, a saber, escribir, bueno, siempre puedes pedirle a tu dentista una endodoncia o tener un accidente en la bañera en su lugar.

  Tony Kushner

  Correr, escribir, manos

  "We Call That Failure Art", de Tony Kushner, www.newyorker.com. 31 de octubre de 2013.

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• America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand while others beat us at our own game, our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We must now establish a sense of urgency.

  Charles M. Vest

  Children, Science, Math

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• 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

  Writing, Hands, Tasks

  "Interview: Garth Ennis And Aaron Campbell on Bringing 'The Shadow' To Dynamite". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the opposite...efficiency fails to curb demand because it lets more people do more, and do it faster-and more/more/faster invariably swamps all the efficiency gains.

  Peter W. Huber

  Impact, Hands, Opposites

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• 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.

  Richard Thaler

  Hombres, Manos, Dar

  "Big Think Interview". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• 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.

  Jon Krakauer

  Real, Hands, Climbing

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• 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.

  Derek Sivers

  Sexy, Jobs, Hands

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• 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.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Hands, Years, Suffering

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• 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.

  Jack McDevitt

  Men, Hands, Stupidity

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.251, Hachette UK

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