Task Quotes
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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 -
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.
Arthur Schnitzler
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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 -
Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.
Anil Sinha -
History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.
Nicolas Gomez Davila -
My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.
Cesare Borgia -
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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 -
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.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.
Alfie Kohn -
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 -
What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
Aimee Semple McPherson -
To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task.
Etty Hillesum
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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 -
Concentrate on your task.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
Alan Autry -
Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.
Tim Ferriss -
There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
George W. Bush -
When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.
Bill Gates
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
Isaac Newton -
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 -
To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
Sarah Bernhardt -
Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
Ernest Shackleton