Higher Task Quotes

#1. A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.

Ernst Junger

#2. To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you'll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It's to produce a creator.

Irvin D. Yalom

#3. This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men.

Ronald Reagan

#4. I don't know that there's any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we've ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?

Nick Saban

#5. It is my mission as a pilgrim to act as a messenger expressing spiritual truths. It is a task which I accept joyfully, and I desire nothing in return, neither praise or glory, nor the glitter of silver and gold. I simply rejoice to be able to follow the whisperings of a Higher Will.

Peace Pilgrim

#6. The church's task is to open people's eyes so that they can see that there is nothing higher than God

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Wherever the Legionary's hand and soul show up, a garden appears.

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

#8. Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#9. There's a difference between nutrition knowledge and food knowledge.

Matt Fitzgerald

#10. Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

Robert Sternberg

#11. Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions.

Johnny Carson

#12. That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a task! He ought to have three heads.

Thomas Hughes

#13. The more mindless the task, the higher probability of subconscious disruption can stimulate creativity.

Pearl Zhu

#14. [The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of empirical science constantly renews itself. We may go on forever, proceeding to explanations of a higher and higher universality ...

Karl Popper

#15. A song that wrenches the heart finds a knowing ear and a liking heart.

Auliq Ice

#16. Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

Eric Maisel

#17. You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Tennessee Williams

#18. I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I've seen them, my mind has been blown - in a great way. They have all these amazing projects and people that the world doesn't know anything about. I'm like a kid in a candy store - it's an idea factory.

Tony Fadell

#19. Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.

Glenn Beck

#20. What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. The tasks that we studied varied considerably in their effects on the pupil. At baseline, our subjects were awake, aware, and ready to engage in a task - probably at a higher level of arousal and cognitive readiness than usual.

Daniel Kahneman

#22. To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.

Wes Fesler

#23. These displays made it clear that the truly dedicated homemaker matched her comforter to her pillow shams to her washcloths to her bedskirt to her toothbrush holder.

Christina Bartolomeo

#24. Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

Dan Quisenberry