Task Quotes
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The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.
Ernst Mach -
The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Beyond these general points about culture, why do specific aspects of the U.S. culture make Humble Inquiry more difficult? THE MAIN PROBLEM–A CULTURE THAT VALUES TASK ACCOMPLISHMENT MORE THAN RELATIONSHIP BUILDING.
Edgar Schein -
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi -
If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy. But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.
Jimmy Carter -
We value task accomplishment over relationship building and either are not aware of this cultural bias or, worse, don’t care and don’t want to be bothered with it.
Edgar Schein -
The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.
Erwin Schrodinger