“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.”
Baltasar Gracian
“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”
Lao Tzu
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
Mark Twain
“Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first”
“The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.”
Buddha
“It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgement, particularly if they're going by light meters.”
Adam Gilchrist
“Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.”
William Penn