Top 100 Quotes About Task
#1. We must all care for one another - this is our task in life. But also we must care for ourselves, which means we must be careful in our decisions, careful in our relationships, careful in our statements. We must manage our lives carefully, in order to avoid becoming victims.
Andre Agassi
#2. Claim the possibility of a miraculous shift toward global transformation, allow the thought to move through you like a wave of energy, then emerge ready for the task of doing your part to make it happen.
Marianne Williamson
#3. Who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup, and followed the brilliant Spaniard to converse about America and Eternity, a hopeless task, and so took ship to Africa
Allen Ginsberg
#4. I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles - that's when I felt good, normal, balanced.
Daniel Coyle
#5. Your task?
To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.
Rumi
#6. My task might be monumental, but my gift - my curse - was the only means I had of making a difference in this world.
Kathryn Purdie
#7. I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.
Christopher Hitchens
#8. For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
Ed O'Brien
#9. Good men want only the power to make things right. Great men seek to make things right and gather the power to do so. Great leaders find those who are worthy of wielding power and set them to the task of making things right.
Kel Kade
#10. The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit, we suddenly discover that we were never truly alone.
Hal Zina Bennett
#11. I promptly fell in love with scientific research and soon had assigned myself, as a major vocation, the task of elucidating the mechanism of action of the antidiabetic hormone.
Christian De Duve
#12. Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user's task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large.
Jakob Nielsen
#13. I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat ... where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I am sure, has experienced in his heart [the joy of] the task entrusted to him [and] felt as rich as a king.
Karl Donitz
#14. My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything.
Joseph Conrad
#15. Any one may mouth out a passage with theatrical cadence or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts. But to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task.
William Hazlitt
#16. The kipper was in a race for it's life, and it knew it. It used all the skill its Maker had given it and drew the creature far away from the craft, to be sacrifice in the end. It was a fitting task for the kipper. But ... there is a thing about monsters. They remember.
Kathy Frias
#17. Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.
Phil Cousineau
#18. Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.
Tim Ferriss
#19. The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.
Sydney J. Harris
#20. A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. A man can only do a given thing so many times with freshness and spirit--then, no matter what it is, it becomes like an office task. I enjoy cards and whoring, but even cards and whoring can grow boresome. You tup your wife a thousand times and that becomes an office task, too.
Larry McMurtry
#22. We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.
Richard P. Feynman
#23. There is no task as urgent for us as to learn daily how to die, but our knowledge of death is not increased by the renunciation of life; only the ripe fruit of the here and now that has been seized and bitten will spread its indescribable taste in us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#24. You cannot lose what is inside you," Chirrut said. "You can only misplace it. The task, then, is to find it again.
Greg Rucka
#25. Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.
Helen Gurley Brown
#26. The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.
Og Mandino
#27. Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.
Nigel Rees
#28. The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.
Donal Henahan
#29. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
Tim Ferriss
#30. A sensitive and honest-minded man, if he's concerned about evil and injustice in the world, will naturally begin his campaign against them by eliminating them at their nearest source: his own person. This task will take his entire life.
Fernando Pessoa
#31. I am a Book," said Vinculus, stopping in mid-caper. "I am the Book. It is the task of the Book to bear the words. Which I do. It is the task of the Reader to know what they say.
Susanna Clarke
#32. I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
Lord Acton
#33. I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.
Keith Jarrett
#34. Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#35. A little person in a little place can use a little thing, perform a
little task, and receive a great reward.
Jack Hyles
#36. Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#37. I'm always driven by something. It doesn't matter what it is, it could be the smallest task or something huge.
Bobby Williams
#38. Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence ...
Norbert Lynton
#39. Surely you can entrust your task to your friends."
"No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice."
"If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up through your own choice.
Lloyd Alexander
#40. My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
Pierre Loti
#41. The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
Rudolf Virchow
#42. let us not abandon all hope before we have set our hands to the task. Let us not lay down our rod and staff if we do not have the desired success at once. What is impossible for men remains possible for God. Eventually God's hour must come, if only we wait for it.
Philip Jacob Spener
#43. The task of genius
is to keep the miracle alive,
to live always in the miracle,
to make the miracle more and more miraculous,
to swear allegiance to nothing,
but live only miraculously,
think only miraculously,
die miraculously.
Henry Miller
#44. My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.
Cesare Borgia
#45. The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
Aristotle.
#46. We must learn to love ourselves less and the earth more. This will not be an easy task for we live in the age of nonsense. Bombarded with thousands of messages each day that proclaim how to be loved instead of how to be loving, we have learned to love objects instead of processes.
Steve Van Matre
#47. This is the cycle of a dynamic society. Equality is never a final state, democracy never a stable equilibrium: they are processes, they are struggles. Our task is now to recognize that that struggle is ours.
Christopher L. Hayes
#48. I don't lift weights at all. Every muscle on my body is for an actual task; there is no muscle that I train for show. If I want to be able to do a certain move or action, I train really hard until I can. And with all of that training comes muscle definition, so it's really an afterthought.
Ronda Rousey
#49. Scriptures exhorted men to shun evil and become good - which seems to be an impossible task - since as soon as we try to add goodness in us, evil too gets added in us without our effort - almost automatically.
Awdhesh Singh
#50. I am convinced if the church went back to the main task of proclaiming the Gospel it would see people being converted to Christ, and it would have a far greater impact on the social, moral, and psychological needs of people than anything else it could possibly do.
Billy Graham
#51. Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
Leo Tolstoy
#53. Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.
James Loeb
#54. What the deuce does religion have to do with being a good minister? It is a profession like any other profession, young man. You fit yourself to the task, and keep your opinions private. That is what all good ministers do - or should!
Elizabeth Gilbert
#55. Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.
Mort Crim
#56. One should perform even an insignificant task with respect.
Sarada Devi
#57. Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
John Vanbrugh
#58. On a shrunken planet where nearly every mountain bears bootprints and every mile of river has been run, being 'first' tends to require creative task definition" (111).
Jo Deurbrouck
#59. With 'Vikings,' I had the task of making these people interesting and, to a point, sympathetic.
Michael Hirst
#60. The concentration is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides immediate feedback.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#61. Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.
Thomas Merton
#62. The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new ... is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.
Eric Hoffer
#63. Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.
R.C. Sproul
#64. The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#65. And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.
Julia Quinn
#66. There is a pleasure a bee takes in collecting nectar and piling it into a hive. It knows well that the chores involved in such a task will yield sweet results.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#67. Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.
Graydon Carter
#68. 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.
Dan Ellis
#69. Each delegated task must be both time-consuming and well-defined. If you're running around like a chicken with its head cut off and assign your VA to do that for you, it doesn't improve the order of the universe.
Timothy Ferriss
#70. proper task of philosophy is to remind ourselves of what we already know to be true:
Bertrand Russell
#71. As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.
Frederick Lenz
#72. Whatever task you're set, find some way to love it. Sunny wondered if Josiah's words applied to standing with a face of stone so the person in front of her wouldn't know how much she wanted to scream.
Megan Hart
#73. Were you hoping for a quest? A seemingly impossible task that you could relay to your queen afterward? Would you like to tell her that you found and slayed the dragon for love of her?
-Queen Sorcha
Melissa Marr
#74. Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.
E. V. Lucas
#75. During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task. I wanted to take on pleasure like a homework assignment, or a giant science fair project.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#76. That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.
Anthony Trollope
#77. To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good ...
Pope John Paul II
#78. The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.
Leonora Carrington
#79. Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within - for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.
Suetonius
#80. Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them.
Herman Kahn
#81. But why he said so strange a thing No Warder dared to ask: For he to whom a watcher's doom Is given as his task, Must set a lock upon his lips, And make his face a mask.
Oscar Wilde
#82. she could not bear to let someone else perform a task when she could do it better herself.
Julia Quinn
#83. At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
Benjamin Whorf
#84. The great task of the peace is to work morals into it. The only sort of peace that will be real is one in which everybody takes his share of responsibility. World organizations and conferences will be of no value unless there is improvement in the relation of men to men.
Frederic Eggleston
#85. Forgiveness is no easy task; it takes a lifetime of remembering to move on
LDarnell
#86. Denying self isn't a one-time thing, but a daily task.
Trip Lee
#87. Add a task to a busy person's plate, and it will get done in short order. Add a task to the plate of someone with nothing to do, and it will never get done.
Wes Fesler
#88. If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Orison Swett Marden
#89. The task of critique is not to denounce the ideals, but to show their transformation into ideologies, and to challenge the ideology in the name of the betrayed ideal
Erich Fromm
#90. Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
Deepak Chopra
#91. Of course there is a Santa Claus. It's just that no single somebody could do all he has to do. So the Lord has spread the task among us all. That's why everybody is Santa Claus. I am. You are.
Truman Capote
#92. The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.
Lionel Shriver
#93. The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.
Jon Meacham
#94. I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.
Victoria Azarenka
#95. Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.
Donald Phillip Verene
#96. We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task,
Angela Merkel
#97. Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#98. It is our time, our task and our destiny - from Opoponax Dreams
Genieve Dawkins
#99. As part of our interpretive task, then, we must distinguish between kingdom values and cultural values within the biblical text. With every change in our culture we have to reevaluate our interpretation of Scripture to determine what our perspective should be. At
William J. Webb
#100. The Society for the Protection of Historical Buildings was the official body whose task it was to oversee repairs and maintenance to our beloved but battered listed building. We had them on speed-dial. They had us on their black list.
Jodi Taylor
