Task Quotes

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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great… — Quincy Jones
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. — Carl Jung
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite. — Franz Kafka
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. — Yousuf Karsh
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine… — John Keats
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the… — John Keegan
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and… — Helen Keller
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to… — Robert Kennedy
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. — Henry A. Kissinger
There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly… — Jeffrey Kluger
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to… — Donald Knuth
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we… — Lawrence Lessig
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. — C.S. Lewis
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that… — Abraham Lincoln
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are… — Franz Liszt
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied… — Vince Lombardi
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. — Adolf Loos
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders… — Pierre Loti
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort. — Thomas Lynch

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