Quotes about tasks
tasks pleasant
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones. Viktor E. Frankl
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 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