Tasks Quotes · Page 32

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others…

— Charles Handy

I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New…

— Henry A. Kissinger

All of us task-oriented obsessive compulsives must learn to slow down and let people into our lives.

— Hans Finzel

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks…

— Barack Obama

We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our…

— Matthew Arnold

The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it…

— Soren Kierkegaard

We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom,…

— A. Philip Randolph

If it's in the German interest to have good trans-Atlantic relations, well, the task is also to look ahead, but our personal…

— Angela Merkel

The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments…

— Ludwig von Mises

So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is…

— Henrik Ibsen

The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .

— J. I. Packer

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is…

— John D. Rockefeller

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the…

— Robert Hillyer

Technology is going to transform people's lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies.…

— Carlos Slim

There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding…

— Leslie Lamport

Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm…

— Anonymous

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs…

— William Penn

I have purpose. My life has meaning. I am engaged in a profession that I'm passionate about. I have some place to…

— Mackenzie Phillips

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic,…

— Jean Baudrillard

The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production.…

— Ludwig von Mises

There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in…

— David Wolpe

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

People should be hired "as is" and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which…

— Marcus Buckingham