Tasks Quotes
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He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.
William Feather
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Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.
Lao Tzu
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Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
Eugene V. Debs
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Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.
Brian Tracy
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Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
William Bennett
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The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.
William Wordsworth
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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
Terence McKenna
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Systemicity is imposed as a set of rules binding the parts among themselves. But these rules do not constrain the parts to act in one way and one way only; they merely prescribe that certain types of functions are carried out in certain sequences. The parts have options; as long as a sufficient number of sufficiently qualified units carry out the prescribed tasks, the requirements of systemic determination are met.
Ervin Laszlo
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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
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Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
Eugene H. Peterson
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Some things are better done than described.
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
Michael Arndt
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The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.
Brent L. Top
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I thought Brittany Packnett, who was one of the Ferguson activists, really interesting, smart young lady, really impressive - you might want to talk with her. So she was one of the organizers of the Ferguson movement, ended up joining our task force. She came in here and she just knew her stuff.
Barack Obama
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
Jules Michelet
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It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.
Francis Chan
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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
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The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.
Isoroku Yamamoto
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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
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There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules
Terence McKenna
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky