Task Quotes

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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. — Craig Raine
Sure they say we (women) are life givers not takers, but guess what, most women can multi-task and be life givers and fighters. Boxing is… — Sonya Lamonakis
The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning… — Edward Weston
People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soilâ€”soil consecrated in the blood of… — Douglas MacArthur
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive. — Edward Abbey
I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good… — Douglas Adams
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
The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were… — James Madison
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world. — Lillian Wald
We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task, — Angela Merkel
On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the… — Carl Jung
Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would… — B.F. Skinner
The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of… — Ronald Reagan
If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of… — Archibald MacLeish
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in lifeâ€”becoming a better person. — Leo Tolstoy
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. — Arthur Miller
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the… — Virginia Woolf
The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that… — Wassily Kandinsky
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. — Emile M. Cioran

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