Quotes by Tasks It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task. Donald Rumsfeld critical tasks mistake A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or bonds) and the receipt of income on that wealth (such as dividends or interest). The financial system performs dismally at its advertised task, that of efficiently directing society's savings towards their optimal investment pursuits. The system is stupefyingly expensive, gives terrible signals for the allocation of capital, and has surprisingly little to do with real investment. Doug Henwood tasks real giving I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see ourselves as others see us. Doris Lessing novelists tasks thinking It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done. Douglas Hofstadter surveys tasks done The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it. Douglas Rushkoff tasks giving needs Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs. Douglas Rushkoff cost tasks doe The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. Douglas Adams video tasks believe I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses. Dweezil Zappa generations tasks love I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. Douglas Adams computer tasks hands The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation. E. F. Schumacher achieve tasks fundamentals Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole. E. F. Schumacher tasks looks world Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices. E. F. Schumacher tasks choices world Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive. E. B. White dubious tasks weather Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion. Eberhard Arnold tasks mind children Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace. E. B. White tasks jobs country For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task. Ed O'Brien massive band tasks Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present. Ed Seykota distraction tasks important Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice. Edgar Alwin Payne tasks practice art The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance. Edmund Clarence Stedman tasks acceptance men You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks! Edouard Manet tasks masters school «89101112131415161718»
