Task Quotes

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Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly… — George Santayana
These Stepsons tread where mortals don't belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what powers may yet… — Janet Morris
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders… — Alice Duer Miller
Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both… — Brian Tracy
Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to… — John Foster Dulles
The world is hungry to hear the truth. ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us? — David O. McKay
The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking the heart from… — Ravi Zacharias
The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions. — Donald Barthelme
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life. — B.F. Skinner
When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them. — Amanda Palmer
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying… — Steven Pinker
In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and… — Robert Mueller
Being true to one's duty is a mark of true disciples of the Lord and the children of God. Be valiant in your duty. Stay… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
The gospel is never heard in isolation. It is always heard against the background of the cultural milieu in which one lives. A person raised… — William Lane Craig
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the… — Nikola Tesla
If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence. — Nik Halik
...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.… — Maria Montessori
The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable. — Aleister Crowley

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