Tasks Quotes · Page 6

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and…

— Arne Jacobsen

[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature.…

— Karl Popper

What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little…

— Bessie Anderson Stanley

“When GOD wants to do an impossible task He takes an impossible man and crushes him.”

— Alan Redpath

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

— Katherine Paterson

The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of…

— Samuel Johnson

It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest,…

— Wislawa Szymborska

You have to love that government, but hate the government that might work in your interest and that you could control. That's…

— Noam Chomsky

To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by…

— Robert M. Pirsig

It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I…

— Henrik Ibsen

Being true to one's duty is a mark of true disciples of the Lord and the children of God. Be valiant in…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend…

— R. A. Salvatore

I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that…

— Ronald Reagan

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of…

— Max Scheler

Nowadays I find chocolate and/or chocolate-based snacks to be great motivators. Everyone loves chocolate. If someone has a lot of work to…

— Michael Scott

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

— Edward Said

I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision.…

— Margot Livesey

Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.

— Don Tapscott

To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of…

— John Dewey

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable…

— Margaret Mead