Endless Task Quotes

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?

Producing never stops. It's 24/7.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.

You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish.

Running a TV show is always running a TV show; it's never not running a TV show.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

I'm not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done.

You could have written the biggest hit song, and all eyes are looking to you to write another one. It's not a thankless job; it's just an endless job.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Writing only leads to more writing.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

There's no term to the work of a scientist.

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of willful decisions or humanly meaningful purposes.

We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.

I will be working on the collection until the day before the show! It's an endless process, that's all that I can say at that stage.