Task Quotes
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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.
David Lewis-Williams -
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
Idries Shah
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Photos have the real task of bringing exposure to places that we otherwise don't have much awareness of.
Rachel Morrison -
To pray diligently is more than half the task.
Martin Luther -
A woman with a mind is fit for any task.
Christine de Pizan -
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
Henrik Ibsen -
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 -
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!
Lao Tzu
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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.
Michael Johnson -
The task of instilling Wordsworthian metaphysics into the barren intellects of the Modern Lower Fifth.
Edmund Crispin -
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
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.
Jonathan Raymond -
Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.
Charles L. Whitfield -
Divine is the task to relieve pain.
Hippocrates
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Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
Plato -
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.
Marianne Williamson -
The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.
Eugene H. Peterson -
Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.
Marianne Williamson -
The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
Conrad Veidt
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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
William Blake -
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Sophocles -
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.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.
Paul Hindemith