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 -
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
Henrik Ibsen
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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 -
The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.
Eugene H. Peterson -
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 -
A woman with a mind is fit for any task.
Christine de Pizan -
To pray diligently is more than half the task.
Martin Luther -
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
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Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The task of instilling Wordsworthian metaphysics into the barren intellects of the Modern Lower Fifth.
Edmund Crispin -
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 -
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 -
Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.
Marianne Williamson
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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.
Conrad Veidt -
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 -
Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.
Charles L. Whitfield -
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 -
Divine is the task to relieve pain.
Hippocrates -
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
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Sophocles -
Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
Soren Kierkegaard -
A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.
Lao Tzu