Tasks Quotes · Page 60

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our…

— L. Ron Hubbard

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

— Bill Gates

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

— Grady Booch

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

— Henry David Thoreau

What we want to do is make sure they're not totally kept from what's going on in the world. We don't want…

— Alex Kendrick

Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people…

— Anonymous

I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.

— Alana Stewart

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I focus on the moment and move from task to task.

— Tyler Seguin

We must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic…

— Harry S. Truman

When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your…

— Edwidge Danticat

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

— Chinua Achebe

In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years…

— Paulo Coelho

No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics…

— Ludwig von Mises

It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional…

— Arnold Friberg

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to…

— Diane Lane

Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run…

— Allison Pearson

But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm…

— Edward Gibbon

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

— Peter Drucker

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

— Woodrow Wilson

A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such…

— Doug Henwood

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

— Cyril Cusack

[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his…

— Ouida