Task Quotes
-
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.
-
Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
-
What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!
-
A woman with a mind is fit for any task.
-
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.
-
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
-
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.
-
Photos have the real task of bringing exposure to places that we otherwise don't have much awareness of.
-
Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
-
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!
-
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.
-
Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
-
To pray diligently is more than half the task.
-
History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.
-
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.
-
The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
-
A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.
-
The task of instilling Wordsworthian metaphysics into the barren intellects of the Modern Lower Fifth.
-
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.
-
Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
-
If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.
-
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.
-
The truth is, life is unfair, and we would do well to come to terms with that fact. Boorish people are blessed with athletic or musical skills that qualify them to earn more money in a year than many of us will earn in our lifetime. Saintly people are struck down by disease before they can use their gifts to help others. The task of religion is not to teach us to bow our heads and accept God’s inscrutable will. It is to help us find the resources to live meaningfully and to go on believing, even in a world where people often don’t get what they deserve.
-
Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.
