Task Quotes
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
Soren Kierkegaard -
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
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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 -
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 -
If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.
Nik Halik -
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 -
I'm always driven by something. It doesn't matter what it is, it could be the smallest task or something huge.
Bobby Williams -
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
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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 -
When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.
Alan Redpath -
Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu -
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.
Harold Kushner -
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 -
A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.
Lao Tzu
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It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that think they can play somewhere they really can't. That makes filtering through recruit emails an almost impossible task.
Billy Kennedy -
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 -
Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race.
Benjamin B. Ferencz -
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Sophocles -
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 -
One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
Claude Monet
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The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.
Thomas Aquinas -
Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi -
History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.
Nicolas Gomez Davila -
Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.
James Loeb