Task Quotes

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Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the… — Yo-Yo Ma
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. — Og Mandino
Be larger than your task. — Orison Swett Marden
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to… — Orison Swett Marden
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. — Orison Swett Marden
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. — Donella Meadows
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town,… — Felix Mendelssohn
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. — Michelangelo
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. — Maria Montessori
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. — Maria Montessori
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. — Maria Montessori
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the… — Henry Moore
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. — Iris Murdoch
Art is the proper task of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape,… — Anais Nin
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem… — Sandra Day O'Connor
My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how… — Barack Obama
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! — Manuel Puig
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible. — Charley Reese

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