Task Quotes
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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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It is the task of San shamans to activate their supernatural potency, to cause it to ‘boil’ up their spines until it explodes in their heads and takes them off to the spirit realms – that is, they enter a state of trance at the far end of the intensified trajectory.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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A woman with a mind is fit for any task.
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The best leaders are those their people hardly know exist. The next best is a leader who is loved and praised. Next comes the one who is feared. The worst one is the leader that is despised ... The best leaders value their words, and use them sparingly. When they have accomplished their task, the people say, "Amazing! We did it, all by ourselves!
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There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.
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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.
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Photos have the real task of bringing exposure to places that we otherwise don't have much awareness of.
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Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
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Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
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Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.
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You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.
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To pray diligently is more than half the task.
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Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
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I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the task is done. I've always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most.
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Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.
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I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination
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The task of instilling Wordsworthian metaphysics into the barren intellects of the Modern Lower Fifth.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.
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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
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It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.
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Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.
