Quotes about tasks
tasks ifs sufficient
If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small. John Piper
tasks half praying
To pray diligently is more than half the task. Martin Luther
tasks difficult difficult-tasks
When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value. Seth Godin
tasks powerlessness
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. Theodor Adorno
tasks investment scarce
We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women. Michelle Bachelet
tasks each-day way
Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask. Helen Hunt Jackson
tasks tradition christianity
As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing. John Shelby Spong
tasks records earth
Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that. Paulo Coelho
tasks lovers easy
It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!
tasks memes ifs
Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate. Terence McKenna
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 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 inevitable improbable
Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable. Joseph J. Ellis
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 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 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 exciting difficult
I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting. Victoria Azarenka
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 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 smooth prophet
The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right. Eugene H. Peterson
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 discovering true-nature
Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear. Guy Finley
tasks rising
Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us. George W. Bush