Task Quotes

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I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same -… — Nicholson Baker
A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there… — Howard Gardner
Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military… — Michelle Bachelet
I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting. — Victoria Azarenka
I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into… — Tyson Chandler
Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more… — George Crumb
Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be… — Artur Davis
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective. — David Herbert Donald
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear… — Lion Feuchtwanger
In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done… — Thomas Frank
Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task. — Michael Arndt
I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good… — Simon Armitage
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand. — Garth Ennis
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to… — Noam Chomsky
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19Â½ per… — Hermann Bondi
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material… — G. H. Hardy
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces,… — Lawrence Hargrave
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. — Ruben Hinojosa
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the… — Gerard K. O'Neill
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant — Peter Drucker

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