#task

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice? ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#demands #effort #especially #every #frame

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#connect #destruction #dots #gun #happens

The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group. ↗

— Gerd von Rundstedt

#assigned #commanding #fell #group #invasion

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#build #collect #drum #endless #immensity

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#choose #done #dozen #get #half

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice. ↗

— David Seabury

#once #task #twice #won #you

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#demands #even #explain #instant #just