Task Quotes

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The never-ending task of self improvement. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the… — A. J. Jacobs
And that's why i have to go back to so many places there to find myself and constantly examine myself with no witness but the… — Pablo Neruda
we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their… — Derrick Jensen
We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving… — Kate DiCamillo
The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to… — Henri Nouwen
There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth.… — Douglas Adams
Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way… — Paramahansa Yogananda
How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or… — Ian Mcewan
proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it… — Charlie Brooker
No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your… — M.F.K. Fisher
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally… — Michel Foucault
Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth… — Jostein Gaarder
Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both… — Jostein Gaarder
...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that… — N. T. Wright
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can… — James Gleick

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