Task Quotes

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If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But… — Alfie Kohn
It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope. — Pope Benedict XVI
An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that… — Alfred Adler
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become. — John Ortberg
Proactively bring passion to everything you touch, to everything you do. No matter what task is in front of you, bring as much enthusiasm and… — Marie Forleo
Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they… — Johnnetta B. Cole
Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of… — Peter Forsyth
Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task that they are… — Richard E. Blackwelder
The Spirit has his own existence and personal function in the inner life of God and the economy of salvation: his task is to bring… — John Meyendorff
A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's… — Peter Drucker
I watched them carefully, as always, searching for a sign of mental weakness. But there was none. Every man was coping well with the hardship,… — Daniel Topolski
We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths. — Paul Saffo
Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task… — Bobbi Brown
Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy;… — Laozi
Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat,… — Konrad Lorenz
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be.… — Og Mandino
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. — Charles Caleb Colton
After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy. However "sacred" a calling may be, as it… — Meister Eckhart
Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on… — Thomas Merton

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