Quotes about tasks
tasks dies
That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die. John Berryman
tasks ends my-time
I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task. Lord Acton
tasks essentials should
One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master. Napoleon Hill
tasks historian happened
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened. Lucian
tasks easy easy-tasks
It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom. Mahatma Gandhi
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 guests host
A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task. Eleanor Roosevelt
tasks smooth prophet
The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right. Eugene H. Peterson
tasks discovering true-nature
Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear. Guy Finley
tasks documentation may
Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user's task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large. Jakob Nielsen
tasks lists existential
Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list James C. Collins
tasks hierarchy philosopher
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. Friedrich Nietzsche
tasks differentiation causes
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life Franz Boas
tasks metaphysics empiricism
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it. Franz Grillparzer
tasks poet theater
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
tasks rising
Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us. George W. Bush
tasks language study
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. Ferdinand de Saussure
tasks life-is lord
The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it. Ezra Taft Benson
tasks humans
Securing food is the basic task for all humans, Gong Li
tasks louisville use
Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry -- keep swinging at them. Hank Aaron
tasks purpose abandon
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
tasks world philosopher
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Karl Marx
tasks world
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
tasks levels way
If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this. Julia Gillard
tasks becoming increase
My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly. Jean Moulin
tasks language tension
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! Manuel Puig
tasks example losing
Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward. Mao Zedong
tasks consecration
It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing. Martin Buber
tasks saws construction
Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized. Peter Singer
tasks citizens ears
It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears. Plutarch
tasks
Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it. Joe Abercrombie
tasks flight theory
Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.
tasks feels
My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything. Joseph Conrad