Tasks Quotes

Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.

Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future.

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.

By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God.

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

It is no easy task to be good.

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.

Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.

"Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.

We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.

God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

There are so many options, so much to do, so many demands on Women. There is no point in taking one hour to do a ten-minute task, nor should we slap together an hour-worthy project in ten minutes.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.

Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

All of us task-oriented obsessive compulsives must learn to slow down and let people into our lives.

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!

A little person in a little place can use a little thing, perform a little task, and receive a great reward.

The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

If we dedicate ourselves over and over again to the goal of climbing one peak to the next...resisting the urge to become discouraged by the task-every one of us can become a high achiever.

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively for the accomplishment of the Party's tasks.

I feel my task is done. I feel a sense of satisfaction, ... It's the moment and I seized it.