Tasks Quotes

The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.

Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.

Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.

The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.

Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.

I have a task that is greater than all the labors assigned to Hercules. It demands that I live in the richness of this moment because that is all I have or will ever know.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.

The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.

Don't get stampeded by what people around you value. The task is to figure out what YOU value - and value highly enough to throw yourself into with unqualified passion.

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.

Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is unfamiliar territory so, here and now, that's more difficult.

Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected.

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

When you come upon a difficult task ... start.

Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.

The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.

Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.

Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.

The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.