Tasks Quotes

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.

It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow.

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

When God calls you to an extraordinary task, He provides extraordinary resources.

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

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.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

That which hinders your task is your task.

My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

Nothing about my birth - or yours - was random or accidental. I was born for this time - and so were you. We were each chosen for a particular, cosmically important task that can be done by no one else.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass.
You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass;
and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle.
Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass.
You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.

The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love.

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.

Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.

The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task.

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.