Taskmaster Quotes

#1. And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

Michael Foley

#2. The Law of Unconditional Loving is a tough taskmaster. Once we taste the fruits of unconditional loving, we cannot go backward, we cannot become "unaware" ever again.

Greg Anderson

#3. Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers.

Jentezen Franklin

#4. Elizabeth Bennet: I'm very fond of walking. Mr. Darcy: Yes... yes I know. (from Pride & Prejudice, the movie)

Jane Austen

#5. T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.

Charles De Lint

#6. Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#7. Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.

Mason Cooley

#8. If time were to take on human form, would she be your taskmaster or freedom fighter?

Richie Norton

#9. Hesitation is a cruel taskmaster; it breeds weakness the same way filth breeds germs.

Ray Dacolias

#10. An empty belly makes a stern taskmaster.~Victor Radcliff

Harry Turtledove

#11. I live in a kind of tension between the will to say yes to my suffering, and my inability to utter this yes with complete sincerity.

Karl Jaspers

#12. In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As a result, we have become little more than well-fed, well-entertained slaves to the state. Freedom, as envisioned by our forefathers, is gone.

Chuck Baldwin

#13. Writing isn't an easy taskmaster. Sentences left unfinished never continue as well as they had begun. New ideas bend the main arch of the text, and it never again sits perfectly true. Anyway,

Magda Szabo

#14. Dreams are powerful. It is possible to so attach our emotions to them that a dream can become a taskmaster we serve, rather than an assignment or goal we steward.

Dutch Sheets

#15. But without wisdom, imagination is a cruel taskmaster.

William Paul Young

#16. Secular entertaining is a terrible bondage. Its source is human pride. Demanding perfection, fostering the urge to impress, it is a rigorous taskmaster which enslaves. In contrast, Scriptural hospitality is a freedom which liberates.

Karen Burton Mains

#17. We learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that decisions determine destiny.

Thomas S. Monson

#18. When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

David Byrne

#19. And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

Anita Loos

#20. Not the least of the torments which plague our existence is the constant pressure of time, which never lets us so much as draw breath but pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip. It ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#21. You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. Pleasure is a difficult taskmaster, ' Trenton observed thoughtfully, 'and one that people do not mind submitting to. Most don't even realize that it is their master. Once they are enslaved to pleasure, it deceives them into believing that they control their own lives.

Erika Mathews

#23. Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Bill Griffith

#24. All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Thomas Carlyle

#25. Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

Edwin Land

#26. I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.

Phil Elvrum

#27. I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

Hume Cronyn

#28. It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies don't play on emotion too much.

Zach Galifianakis

#29. I love Paul O'Neill, but you could not pay me enough to work for him again" one official told me. "the man has never encountered an answer he can't turn into another twenty hours of work.

Charles Duhigg

#30. The world is just as harsh a taskmaster as any other lord, and in the end it's a lord without mercy.

Sigrid Undset

#31. I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

Guillermo Del Toro

#32. Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.

Jimmy Buffett

#33. I often went entire days without speaking - unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up: You fat, disgusting slob, you'll never be thin enough, good enough, smart enough, tough or talented enough.

Aimee Liu

#34. But without wisdom, imagination is like a cruel taskmaster.

Wm. Paul Young

#35. The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#36. No little part of the torment of existence lies in this, that Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming after us, like a taskmaster with a whip. If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the misery of boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#37. Yessir, it's a hard taskmaster, that guilt. I say, feel it, and wriggle a little bit if you have to, but then put it away. Get on with what you can change.

LaVyrle Spencer

#38. Because a man is placed in charge of a club does not make it necessary for him to be a taskmaster or a tyrant. In my opinion, he ought to be as lenient with his club as circumstances allow, and the less he interferes with the personal liberties of the men, the better.

Joe Tinker

#39. She might even have felt that self-congratulatory pride that heterosexual white people are known to experience due to proximate diversity.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#40. To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#41. will appoint Peace as your overseer and Righteousness as your taskmaster.

Anonymous

#42. The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#43. They don't plant in rows because they're idiots,and they don't use farm equipment because they're idiots,and they don't plant in spring because they're idiots..

John Green