Tasks Quotes

Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

The mind can wander while still focusing on one task.

I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

The task of a leader is to simplify. You should be able to explain where you need to go in two minutes.

She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.

We face such a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while.

Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

Today, we take to task any governmental body that doesn't protect animals, and take legal action if necessary.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason.

What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

If I was as relaxed as what I perceived myself to be, I would not be able to multi-task the way I multi-task.

Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.

I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now.

It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

Decision making is the specific executive task.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

When you have set yourself a task finish it.

Add little to little and there will be a big pile.

Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

Every task is given equal importance - that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow of my creative metabolism.

Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it