Task Quotes
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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.
Eric Reeves -
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
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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.
Isaac Newton -
We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
Alan Autry -
There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
George W. Bush -
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 -
My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.
Cesare Borgia -
After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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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 -
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
Isaac Newton -
Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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 -
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 -
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
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This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
Christiana Figueres -
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 -
Drag is about whatever persona you put on to do a particular task. I could pick up trash in the morning and throw on my navy blue jumpsuit, and that would be that gig!
Aquaria -
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 -
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
Tim Ferriss -
If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.
Alfie Kohn
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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 -
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.
Arthur Schnitzler -
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 -
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