Assigned Tasks Quotes

Every executive function, whether superior or subordinate, should be the appointed duty of some given individual. It should be apparent to all the world who did everything, and through whose default anything was left undone. Responsibility is null when nobody knows who is responsible. Nor, even when real, can it be divided without being weakened.

The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

The 'Voice Kids U.K.' songs were chosen for me, and I had to try and make them mine.

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.