Top 100 Task To Quotes
#1. I said kiss me again." A sultry smile curved her lips. "Would that be such a difficult task to perform?"
Christ almighty, she wanted him to kiss her again. And she was ordering him to do so.
Monica Burns
#2. I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.
John C. Calhoun
#3. i am not an angel ,and i don't want to be an angel.
I Born as a Human and and my Biggest Task to keep my self Just a Human.
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#4. He compared the intelligence task to solving a jigsaw puzzle, except that you didn't get the box cover, so you didn't know what the final picture was. And you got only a few pieces at a time, not all of them. And even worse, you always got a bunch of pieces from some other puzzle thrown in.
P. W. Singer
#5. In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.
Jack Kornfield
#6. I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and make sense of sound, in time and space, to communicate something about being alive through music.
Libby Larsen
#7. Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.
Henry A. Kissinger
#8. That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
Joseph Goebbels
#9. It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.
Lykke Li
#10. Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. What manly task may I perform for you?"
"If you care for me at all, you'll slay a dragon."
"Such a simple task to prove my devotion? For you, I will gladly take up this quest. Why, by the age of ten, I had already felled my first ogre.
Betsy Schow
#15. 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
#16. The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
James Baldwin
#18. Moral virtue is a mean ... between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; ... it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.
Aristotle.
#19. Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.
John Phillips
#20. I focus on the moment and move from task to task.
Tyler Seguin
#21. I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
Queen Elizabeth II
#22. When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
Franz Grillparzer
#23. Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.
Franz Kafka
#24. The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
William Bennett
#25. Whenever you have an unpleasant task to do, my favorite quote is from my mom. "Just back your ears and do it!
Jan Sikes
#26. In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
Aristotle.
#27. That if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#28. It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.
Jeremy Collier
#29. It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.
Plato
#30. One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.
George Wald
#31. Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
Eugen Herrigel
#32. And I used to think, after all, I'll do a whole mass of things, I'll not die, no way! There's a task to be done and I'm a giant! And now the giant's only task is to die decently, although no one cares a damn about that ... Still, I won't start wagging my tail.
Ivan Turgenev
#33. What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!
Aimee Semple McPherson
#34. It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.
Victor Hugo
#35. Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.
Itzhak Perlman
#37. The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.
Phillis Wheatley
#38. It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.
Thomas Mellon
#39. The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong.
Avery Dulles
#40. A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.
Knut Hamsun
#41. It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
Eduardo Paes
#42. until we assign a time bound purposeful task to each day, each day we wake up would be regarded as a free day;free days are however fee days which we shall pay later
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.
Soren Kierkegaard
#45. The fact that the task to write perfect software is virtually impossible does not mean you aren't responsible for the imperfection.
Robert C. Martin
#46. It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.
Charles Caleb Colton
#47. The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#49. When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
Idries Shah
#50. While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.
Mariella Frostrup
#51. the simplest definition of the Abrahamic faith. It is not our task to conquer or convert the world or enforce uniformity of belief. It is our task to be a blessing to the world. The use of religion for political ends is not righteousness but idolatry.
Jonathan Sacks
#52. We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.
Wilhelm II
#53. It is not our task to judge the worthiness of our path; it is our task to walk our path with worthiness.
Kent Nerburn
#54. It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.
Pope Francis
#55. Each person is chargeable with the essential task to make his or her thought processes as refined as possible. Every person must declare what important distinctions will allow him or her to live a vivid and reflection filled life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#56. That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.
Arne Jacobsen
#57. It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
Blaise Pascal
#58. I shall not lie!" Eilonwy cried, "not for this traitor and deserter."
"It is not for him," Taran said quietly, "but for the sake of our quest."
"It isn't right," Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes.
"We do not speak of rightness," Taran answered. "We speak of a task to be finished.
Lloyd Alexander
#59. True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself.
Pope Paul VI
#60. If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them and they're quite dedicated, it really is not at all an impossible task to enter into salvakalpa samadhi in this particular lifetime.
Frederick Lenz
#61. The body is not a task to be completed but a gift we receive from God himself.
Matthew Lee Anderson
#62. What year was it now? He couldn't even say. But finally, the task to which he'd dedicated himself was done.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#63. The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life. This key insight is the heart and soul of this book. This
Brian Tracy
#64. It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.
Francis Chan
#65. Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy ... But our task is the opposite of distraction ... how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.
Henri Nouwen
#66. It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
Lawrence Hargrave
#67. If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you're beside the bridge, my child! I've no fancy for a reluctant wife. I want your love, not your gratitude.
Georgette Heyer
#68. All fiction is based on fact and moves into fantasy. It is the writer's task to make the unbelievable believable.
Chloe Thurlow
#69. Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.
Charles Ghigna
#70. Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
#71. What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
David Lloyd George
#72. God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
Faye Dunaway
#73. Valten turned and grasped Gisela around the waist to help her down. She placed her hands on his shoulders and he set her on her feet, but slowly. After all, when one has a pleasant task to do, there's no reason to rush it.
Melanie Dickerson
#74. Whatever happened in the world was a decree from God. A task to be completed. Any crying or joy just got in the way of being useful. Any emotion was decadent. Anticipation or regret was a silly extra. A luxury.
Chuck Palahniuk
#75. How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of
so noble an undertaking!
Abigail Adams
#76. Cooking with your kids and engaging them in hands-on activities are two ways to begin to educate children about the healthy eating, and kick start the important task to help change how the younger generation looks at food and nutrition.
Marcus Samuelsson
#77. It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque.
Christopher Hitchens
#78. It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.
Edward Gibbon
#80. I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen
#81. You need to make sure that you are where you think you are indispensable. And dedicate your task to that,
Carlos Ghosn
#82. Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple
truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your
most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the
key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in
life.
Brian Tracy
#83. People expect their Leaders to help them to achieve the common task. to build the synergy of teamwork and to respond to individuals and meet their needs
John Adair
#84. We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#85. It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#87. God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#88. We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.
Heinrich Himmler
#89. You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a slave.
Victor Hugo
#90. It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about
Rick Warren
#91. It is our task to provide policies suited to the different situations of today.
John Bracken
#92. When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.
Soren Kierkegaard
#93. It is a scholar's task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it's no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a preexisting truth? Or have you imposed an arbitrary meaning on whatever it is you're considering?
Mary Doria Russell
#94. Even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open.
Donna Tartt
#95. The world is hungry to hear the truth ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?
David O. McKay
#96. It may seem an easy task to disregard a secret but secrets are like splinters beneath the flesh, the infection spreads and spreads and then the limb turns gangrenous and must be sawn away, all for the sake of a sliver of wood.
Keith Miller
#97. Art has a noble task: to educate man. That's why the writer's part in our society is a most responsible one. The writers are the architects of human souls and the critics are the architects of the writer's souls.
Slawomir Mrozek
#98. Despite their rising international acclaim, Sachal Studios remains virtually unknown in Pakistan. The ensemble is faced with a daunting task: to reclaim and reinvigorate an art that has lost its space in Pakistan's narrowing cultural sphere.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
#99. 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.
Arnold Friberg
#100. It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being
Sergei Eisenstein
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