Task Quotes

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To set us on a clear path, it is important to communicate well, at least with ourselves. To know what we want, to know what… — Rosemary Altea
You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some… — Stephen Covey
[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It… — Thomas Merton
Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for… — Rachel Naomi Remen
To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task… — Rene Dubos
The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most… — Cyndi Lee
The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them… — Jimmy Reid
Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of… — Elwyn Brooks White
Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done. — Horace
It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. — Rabindranath Tagore
The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earthâ€™s weary voices… — Adelaide Anne Procter
Do thine own task, and be therewith content. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that… — John F. Kennedy
Father, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together… — Russell Baker
Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter… — Robert Breault

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