Task Quotes

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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which… — Alan Redpath
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
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft. — Philip Wylie
Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the… — David F. Wells
The cartoonistâ€™s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see… — Michael Leunig
If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice. — David Seabury
Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality. — Bear Grylls
Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention… — Ben Horowitz
Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go… — Jeffrey Pfeffer
There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task… — Hector Hugh Munro
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design. — Jef Raskin
When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself. — Jef Raskin
Our task is nothing less than the creation of a new constitutional order for a new united Europe. — Peter Hain
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling spirit… — Michael Meade
We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we… — Edsger Dijkstra
God is not an encyclopedia whose task it is to satisfy our curiosity. — Jacques Ellul
What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only… — James Sheridan Knowles
Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence. — Rainer Maria Rilke
In true budo there is no enemy or opponent. True budo is to become one with the universe, not train to become powerful or to… — Morihei Ueshiba

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