Immediate Task Quotes

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Don't think about being the number one in the world, try instead to get through today's program as well as you can. Then we will see whether one day you'll end up as number one or number 100.

I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.

Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.

He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.

It's all about today, the present, the game you have in front of you.

I concentrate on the task before me rather then those dim in the future.