Tasks Quotes

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

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.

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.

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

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.

It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".

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.

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

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

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.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

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.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.

Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.

The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.

The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional level. There were no precedents.

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

To keep Nigeria ONE, is a task that must be DONE.

Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.

Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.

Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.

Do the tasks that causes you the most fear, anxiety, or stress - and get over it.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.