My Task Quotes
35 quotes by 29 authors
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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.
— Ivan Sechenov
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To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that…
— Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as…
— Wilhelm II
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[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours…
— William Halsey
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation,…
— Yousuf Karsh
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So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me…
— William Ernest Henley
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It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an…
— Kathe Kollwitz
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My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an…
— Thomas Merton
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No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!
— Aimee Semple McPherson
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I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore…
— Ivan Illich
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My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.
— Jean Moulin
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My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.
— Cesare Borgia
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The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task…
— Trevor Huddleston
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What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself.…
— Aimee Semple McPherson
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My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything.
— Joseph Conrad
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When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Well, yes, I could give up for myself but no, there are others whom I will be able to help and they're waiting for me…
— Frederick Lenz
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