Tasks Quotes
The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.
It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.
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 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.
My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.
The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.
One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.
We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.
There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules
By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".
As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.
As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.
There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.
The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.
Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.
This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story
I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list.
Our attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its outcome more than anything else.
The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.
Your time as the entrepreneur is worth hundreds of dollars an hour. If you are doing tasks you could hire out, those are stopping you from earning that kind of money.
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.
The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.