Task Quotes

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Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when… — Chris Hadfield
It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being — Sergei Eisenstein
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it. — Janet Napolitano
The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see this in the… — Pope Francis
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with… — Pope John Paul II
The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to… — Pope John Paul II
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God... — Pope John Paul II
I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very ... high maintenance. — Neil Diamond
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary… — Noam Chomsky
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God â€“ the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology. — Ludwig Feuerbach
This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be… — Fredrik Bajer
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses,… — Ron Kind
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning. — Jean Piaget
One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work. Whereas in the… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if… — Stanley Hauerwas
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window… — John Cheever
The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear… — Sydney J. Harris
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can;… — William Feather

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