Tasks Quotes

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

As governor of Ohio, I have an obligation to keep the 11.5 million people in Ohio safe. And we have been very effective with our Joint Terrorism Task Force, being able to make busts.

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.

No task is too big or too small for God. He cares for us. He wants the best for us. More importantly He just wants us to include Him in our lives by trusting in Him.

It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche.

I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks.

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

The world is hungry to hear the truth. ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

Approach difficult tasks with a positive attitude - you'll inspire others and feel better about what's ahead

The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see ourselves as others see us.

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

Father, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask.

It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting!

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.

There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.

Regardless of how little time and work someone takes to perform a task, there has to be a more efficient and effective way to perform it.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"

As Buddhists, our only task is to keep our room clean.

It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them, to learn to be perfect in your meditation, and to win in all your endeavors so that one day you will complete again.

Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power.

To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.

To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.

It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.

If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.

I'm a utility infielder. There's always somebody who is better at a specific task than I am, but I can pitch in at a bunch of different things as needed.