Task Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.
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If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.
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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.
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We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
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Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
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I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.
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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.
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The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.
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When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.
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The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
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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.
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There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
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If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.
