First Task Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

• To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher. — Maria Montessori
• Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with… — Saint Augustine
• If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task… — William Graham Sumner
• The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good… — Helenio Herrera
• If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning. — Jean Piaget
• The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems. — Stanley Kunitz
• The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. — Joseph Batten
• Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them. — Herman Kahn
• Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with… — Eugen Herrigel
• Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time. — R. Murray Schafer
• Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by… — Marc Morial
• The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable. — Aleister Crowley
• Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States. — Michael Mandelbaum
• Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the… — Gerard K. O'Neill
• ...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. — Theodore Roosevelt
• The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?" — Frederick Lenz
• The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally… — Michel Foucault
• Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to… — Theodore Roosevelt
• The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society. — Paul Wellstone
• If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of… — William H. McRaven

Who Wrote These First Task Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 23 First Task Quotes as follows:

• 2 First Task Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
• 1 First Task Quote by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• 1 First Task Quote by Adam Weishaupt
• 1 First Task Quote by Maria Montessori
• 1 First Task Quote by Saint Augustine
• 1 First Task Quote by William Graham Sumner
• 1 First Task Quote by Helenio Herrera
• 1 First Task Quote by Jean Piaget
• 1 First Task Quote by Stanley Kunitz
• 1 First Task Quote by Joseph Batten
• 1 First Task Quote by Herman Kahn
• 1 First Task Quote by Eugen Herrigel
• 1 First Task Quote by R. Murray Schafer
• 1 First Task Quote by Marc Morial
• 1 First Task Quote by Aleister Crowley
• 1 First Task Quote by Michael Mandelbaum
• 1 First Task Quote by Gerard K. O'Neill
• 1 First Task Quote by Frederick Lenz
• 1 First Task Quote by Michel Foucault
• 1 First Task Quote by Paul Wellstone
• 1 First Task Quote by William H. McRaven