Task Quotes

• Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Discover
  • Task

• The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong.

  

  Avery Dulles
  • Church
  • Christ
  • Lift Up

• 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
  • Human Imagination
  • Eternal World
  • Bosom Of God

• To me the task is a loathsome one. I go in the spirit of the soldier who acts against his best judgment at the orders of his superior.

  

  Michael Collins
  • Soldier
  • Judgment
  • Against

• 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
  • People
  • Task
  • Objective

• The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Blow
  • Destroy
  • Institutions

• Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Growth
  • Living
  • True Self

• The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Society
  • Artist
  • Strange

• Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Content
  • Task

• The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Task
  • Prophet

• To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Nature
  • Explain
  • Task

• If a typical person can do a mental task with less than one second of thought, we can probably automate it using AI either now or in the near future.

  

  Andrew Ng
  • Person
  • Task
  • Automate

• The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Way
  • Task
  • Buddha

• Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Attitude
  • Died
  • Accomplished

• As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

  

  Josh Elliott
  • Television
  • Prepared
  • Task

• It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Society
  • Violence
  • Fight

• No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.

  

  John Calvin
  • Task
  • Provided
  • God's Sight

• The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • People
  • Think
  • Teach

• If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Problem
  • Child
  • Task

• When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

  

  Alan Redpath
  • Man
  • Impossible
  • Task

• My aim has been, not only to go once more through the task of Albert Durer, but to execute it also on an extended scale.

  

  Adolphe Quetelet
  • Aim
  • Task
  • Scale

• 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
  • Spirit
  • Life is
  • Human Beings

• We are committed to addressing all aspects of the criminal justice system to improve public safety and reentry in our state. Our task force represents multiple perspectives including law enforcement, state agencies, crime victims and families, community leaders and formerly incarcerated individuals.

  

  Bill Lee
  • Improve
  • Task
  • Justice System

• No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Reach
  • Task
  • Convenient

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