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Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.
Aisha Tyler
Goals
Important
Aiming
Futile
Pursuit
Perfection
Instead
Prioritize
Been
Tasks
Often
Just
Realize
Rapid development in areas like machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things, coupled with the proliferation of big data, means higher-skilled professions, such as lawyers, journalists and accountants, are changing too. Some of their tasks are being replaced.
Alain Dehaze
Internet
Big
Too
Changing
Proliferation
Rapid
Some
Data
Lawyers
Area
Development
Journalists
Like
Coupled
Replaced
Accountants
Tasks
Being
Communications
Means
Professions
Things
I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.
Alan Alda
Life
Myself
Daily
My Life
Think
Everyday
Ways
Some
About
Compulsion
Rituals
Condemned
Grade
Tasks
Fever
Improving
Low
Many
Including
Inner
My job during the EVAs, the spacewalks, is to act as the inside coordinator. I remain on the aft flight deck of the shuttle, and I act in a manner to help the gentlemen outside, my fellow crewmates, who are performing the EVA tasks.
Alan G. Poindexter
Job
Inside
Remain
Outside
Performing
Fellow
Gentlemen
Tasks
Deck
Manner
Act
Eva
Flight
Help
Who
Coordinator
Shuttle
Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.
Alexis Ohanian
Work
Best
Me
You
People
Problem
Focus
Find
Through
Entrepreneurs
Never
Like
Most
Motivated
Been
Tasks
Getting
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'
Allison Pearson
You
Change
Cleaning
Impossible
Motherhood
Baby
Software
Give
Like
Dry
Male
Brain
Get
Tasks
Them
Fully
Download
Two
Program
Automation is driving the decline of banal and repetitive tasks.
Amber Rudd
Automation
Driving
Banal
Repetitive
Tasks
Decline
Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
B. F. Skinner
Daily
Achievement
People
Example
Sense
Once
Small
Hand
Task
Personal
Tasks
Dishes
Even
Washing
Filled
Activities
Lives
Daily Lives
Mundane
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracian
Confidence
Fall
Dismayed
Difficult
Other
Easy
Case
Attempt
Were
Tasks
May
Asleep
Most federal employees perform their tasks honorably and well.
Bob Beckel
Employees
Honorably
Federal
Perform
Most
Well
Tasks
I prioritize people over tasks.
Cathy Engelbert
People
Over
Prioritize
Tasks
Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it.
Chiang Kai-shek
Success
Future
Failure
Youth
Training
Fate
Responsibility
Become
Mine
Future Success
Worthy
Citizens
Hopes
Lies
Able
Reconstruction
Feel
Because
Undertake
Very
Hands
Tasks
Intense
Cannot
China
Them
Organizing
Resistance
The best advice I ever received is that there is a difference between urgency and importance: Urgent tasks seem important, but they're not. Important things need to get done.
Chieh Huang
Best
Important
Advice
Important Things
Seem
Between
Importance
Get
Tasks
Done
Difference
Urgency
Urgent
Ever
Things
Received
Need
Rather than wringing our hands about robots taking over the world, smart organizations will embrace strategic automation use cases. Strategic decisions will be based on how the technology will free up time to do the types of tasks that humans are uniquely positioned to perform.
Clara Shih
Time
Technology
World
Smart
Will
Free
Automation
Types
Our
Embrace
About
Cases
Rather
Taking
Perform
Over
Robots
How
Up
Than
Hands
Tasks
Decisions
Use
Organizations
Strategic
Uniquely
Based
Humans
I suppose I experienced the personal dilemma that baffles every working woman. What happens when you are expected to be Superwoman, to perform a dozen conflicting tasks at the same time?
Coretta Scott King
Time
You
Woman
Every
Dilemma
Perform
Suppose
Expected
Personal
Tasks
Same
Same Time
Experienced
Happens
Conflicting
Working
Dozen
Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
Damon Galgut
Good
You
Book
Writing
Old
Sit
Difficult
Incredibly
Find
Rather
Point
Dripping
Write
Almost
Almost Anything
Obsession
Reach
Household
Because
Tap
Very
Than
Fix
Wall
Tasks
Order
Anything
Paint
Starting
For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.
Daniel H. Pink
Best
Great
Creative
People
Approach
Way
Out
Great People
Hire
Get
Tasks
Often
Just
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
David Deutsch
Nature
Technology
Will
First
Harnessing
Collaboration
Way
Parallel
Be The First
Computation
Between
Performed
New
Quantum
Tasks
New Way
Useful
Universes
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
David Lloyd George
Character
Finished
Half
Nothing
Tasks
Fatal
We're all outriders out there, and what we have is all these large number of tasks - that's the herd; that's all the cattle - a whole bunch of individual, hundreds if not thousands of projects at any given time ongoing that we're trying to complete. So we're trying to keep the cattle herd, keep it all just going in the right direction.
David Petraeus
Time
Herd
Complete
Hundreds
Projects
Out
Thousands
Ongoing
Direction
Given
Individual
Cattle
Bunch
Trying
Tasks
Any
Going
Any Given Time
Just
Large
Whole
Large Number
Keep
Right
Number
Right Direction
It's well documented that stop-and-go traffic wears more on a vehicle than consistent-speed highway driving. No matter our driving habits, we all know we must regularly maintain our car's vitals - oil, tires, brakes, etc. Similarly, our brains and bodies perform best with a mindful focus on tasks and a routine maintenance of healthy habits.
Dinesh Paliwal
Best
Matter
Car
Focus
Healthy
Mindful
Our
Must
Wears
Similarly
More
Habits
Driving
Vehicle
Maintain
Perform
Highway
Maintenance
Know
Well
Documented
Traffic
Brains
Brakes
Than
Tasks
Oil
Tires
Etc
Bodies
Regularly
Routine
When our schedules are busy, and we are working hard on the tasks immediately at hand, it can be difficult to see that big, potential breakthrough idea right in front of us, much less act on it.
Dinesh Paliwal
Big
Busy
Difficult
Our
Immediately
See
Potential
Schedules
Idea
Hand
Tasks
Front
Breakthrough
Us
Much
Working
Act
Working Hard
Hard
Less
Right
One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.
Donald Rumsfeld
Confused
Become
Rubs
President
Someone
Wrong
Personal
Tasks
Substantive
Separate
Your
Two
I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to the industrious the opportunity of earning a sum for themselves by 'over-work.' A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
Dorothea Dix
Best
Day
Man
Opportunity
Values
Prison
Believe
Sum
Earning
Give
He
Hour
Most
Industrious
Mode
Tasks
Which
Acquire
Themselves
Convicts
Uses
The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.
Dustin Moskovitz
Work
Time
Facebook
Thought
First
Responding
Photo
Collections
About
Network
Looked
First Time
Quickly
Tasks
Managing
Social
Communications
Things
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
Edward Tufte
Believe
Design
Our
Indeed
Those
Worthwhile
Some
Understand
Accord
Tasks
Order
Them
Deep
Universal
Cognitive
Profound
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