Quotes about task
tasks consecration
It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing. Martin Buber
tasks waking buttons
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers? Lewis Mumford
tasks cleaning made
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. Simone de Beauvoir
tasks virtue sanctity
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. Otto Weininger
tasks difficult ifs
If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you. Joyce Meyer
tasks christ intensity
Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious. Paul Tournier
tasks literature sides
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
tasks inevitable improbable
Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable. Joseph J. Ellis
tasks generations looks
Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen. Richard von Weizsaecker
tasks overwhelming smallest
Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component. Richard Russo
tasks impossible life-is
A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task. Sri Chinmoy
tasks exciting difficult
I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting. Victoria Azarenka
tasks pleasant
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones. Viktor E. Frankl
tasks world changing-the-world
Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world. Tariq Ramadan
tasks language creation
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work. Walter Benjamin
tasks opinion telling-the-truth
Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders. Walter Cronkite
tasks venture sound
I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original. William Cowper
tasks done hard
He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun. Ursula K. Le Guin
tasks impossible accomplish
All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task. Wilhelm von Humboldt