O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.
One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.
I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.
Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.
Your team will get stronger when you begin to build yourself. Teams are made up of individuals who work together . . . and get their own job done. What are you doing to be sure that your job is being done perfectly?
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Officiating is trying to do your absolute best with what you've got.
Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.
