Tasks Quotes · Page 14

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

— Anonymous

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

— Walter Cronkite

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.

— Amos Oz

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

— Alfie Kohn

Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.

— Anil Sinha

One should perform even an insignificant task with respect.

— Sarada Devi

If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.

— Nik Halik

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

— Austin Kleon

There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done…

— Alexander Meiklejohn

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

— Otto Weininger

I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with…

— Henry Rollins

Hitler produced a local "lab experiment"; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin.…

— George Lincoln Rockwell

In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than…

— Dave Barry

Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus…

— Steve Pavlina

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

Getting started as a volunteer anywhere can be a challenge to a lot of people. The biggest hurdle is that people think…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

A daily creative project is like a marathon. It's a ridiculously daunting task, but making an original creation every day gives you…

— Noah Scalin

Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the…

— Peter W. Huber

If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one…

— Chinua Achebe

There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him…

— Stefan Zweig

The History of Evolution is the real source of light in the investigation of organic bodies. It is applicable at every step,…

— Karl Ernst von Baer

Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not…

— Ajahn Sumedho

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that…

— Anthony Trollope

The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women,…

— Anonymous

Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision…

— Anonymous

Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity,…

— Kenneth Keniston

We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the…

— John Armstrong

I think that all countries of the region should join their efforts in the fight against a common threat - terrorism in…

— Vladimir Putin

A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what…

— Hippocrates

It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an…

— Ernst Lubitsch

The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.

— John W. Gardner

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

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.

— Marcus Samuelsson

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

— Marcel Proust

Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

— Terence McKenna

Denying self isn't a one-time thing, but a daily task.

— Trip Lee

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

— Louisa May Alcott

If a task is worthy of our attention, it is worthy of our best.

— Jack Hyles