Task Master Quotes

#1. To remain valuable in our economy, therefore, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things. This task requires deep work. If you don't cultivate this ability, you're likely to fall behind as technology advances. The

Cal Newport

#2. What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux.

Thomas Pynchon

#3. One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

Napoleon Hill

#4. Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.

Jack Bruce

#5. I learned, as the raft moved and I slid through the day, as the day slid through me, to let the task be master: which is only not to choose to do anything but what has chosen me to be done.

John Crowley

#6. A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.

Steven Pinker

#7. All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

Jacob Lawrence

#8. Humanity is in my heart. Do I suffer fools? No. Am I a stickler for my profession? Yes. I am a task master? Yes. My military background, football background, I'm a team player all the way, and I love winning.

Isaiah Washington

#9. I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

Alain De Botton

#10. Most sports require you to master the movements of only your own body to be successful. The combat grappling arts, such as jujitsu, require you to become the master not only of your own movement but also that of your opponent - a far more difficult and complex task.

Renzo Gracie

#11. A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in.

Douglas Alexander

#13. This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.

John Quincy Adams

#14. We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.

David A.R. White

#15. Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.

Joan Crawford

#16. If the Zen master sees that it will cause a person to progress, he will ask that person to do a task. The task is charged with power if it's performed properly. It's a koan between yourself and the Zen Master.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

Stephen L. Richards

#18. Life is the great teacher. An unforgiving task master at times. Its lessons are not easily forgotten

Jocelyn Murray

#19. The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Miriam Makeba

#21. To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

Susan Sontag

#22. But that's what makes it so exciting. Will she kiss me or will she kill me - I think every man secretly wants to play that game

Rosamund Hodge

#23. The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.

Laurie Graham

#24. Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.
("Hair")

Joan Aiken

#25. A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson