Task Quotes

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What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything. — Werner Erhard
The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy… — Twyla Tharp
I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I… — Carl Jung
First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth… — B. C. Forbes
Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose… — Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather than… — Robert J. Samuelson
The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer… — Bertrand de Jouvenel
Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to… — Sigmund Jahn
One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done,… — Og Mandino
Our task is tough, and our time is limited. Party organizations and governments at all levels must give priority to emission reduction and bring the… — Hu Jintao
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.… — Albert Einstein
[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of… — Karl Popper
I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement — Ovid
My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. — Leonardo DiCaprio
The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone. — Tom Peters
Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling… — Pope Pius XII
A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or… — Doug Henwood
The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of… — Ludwig von Mises
Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with the task of… — Pope Paul VI

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