Task Quotes
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain.
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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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A woman with a mind is fit for any task.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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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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Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
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To pray diligently is more than half the 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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Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.
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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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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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Photos have the real task of bringing exposure to places that we otherwise don't have much awareness of.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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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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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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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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Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.
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Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
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The task of instilling Wordsworthian metaphysics into the barren intellects of the Modern Lower Fifth.
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The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.
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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.
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A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.
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If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.
