Task Quotes

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Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing… — Todd Tiahrt
It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within… — Conrad Veidt
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who… — Paulo Freire
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending… — Albert M. Wolters
Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of… — Elizabeth O'Connor
Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country… — Allison Pearson
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to… — Queen Elizabeth II
When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge… — Sun Yat-sen
The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their… — Max Weber
The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing… — Henri Poincare
It is as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out one special, specific task. You go to the country and… — Rumi
Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, in the present dark age of materialism, chanting the mantra is the easiest way for us to obtain inner purification and concentration. Japa can… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Try not to have any break in chanting the mantra even for a moment. Continue repeating the mantra while engaged in any task. Chanting in… — Mata Amritanandamayi
If chanting is not possible during a certain task, then pray before starting it: 'Lord, give Your blessing so that I may do this work… — Mata Amritanandamayi
When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the… — Stephen King
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally… — Ferdinand de Saussure
The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other… — Ernst Mach
The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives,… — Ernst Mach
The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit… — Jonathan Sacks

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