Task Quotes
1790 quotes by 1270 authors
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What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world
— Julian Barnes
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The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes…
— Pope Paul VI
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No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an…
— Richard Perle
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Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead…
— Keith Henson
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I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had…
— Aron Ralston
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Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s easy. There’s…
— David Guterson
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Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.
— Paul Tournier
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Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they…
— Emily Post
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To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a…
— Etty Hillesum
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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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Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental…
— Tom Rath
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Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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The task of a leader is to simplify. You should be able to explain where you need to go in two minutes.
— Jeroen van der Veer
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The mind can wander while still focusing on one task.
— Herbert Benson
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Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists in that infinite,…
— Anita Moorjani
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We have to consciously build the elements of a world based on a culture of peace and disarmament. This is a task for everyone. It…
— Widad Akrawi
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Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply…
— Emil Ruder
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While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the…
— Meg Wolitzer
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Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
— Chris Hadfield
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