Task Quotes
1790 quotes by 1270 authors
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What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much…
— Robin McKinley
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Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth…
— Christopher Moore
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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I."…
— Peter Drucker
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Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength;…
— Winston Churchill
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The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on…
— Gregory Maguire
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Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.
— Julia Quinn
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We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a…
— Desmond Tutu
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I'll be getting you for this,' Halt had told him as he dabbed the diguisting mixture on the worst of the cuts. 'That soot is…
— John Flanagan
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If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion…
— Beth Moore
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...Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want…
— Henri Bergson
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
— Bell Hooks
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I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my…
— Susanna Kaysen
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I'm after something far more esoteric than a virginal shag. Though, if you'd like, darlin', I'm certainly up for the task.
— Alyson Noel
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Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it…
— Martin Buber
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Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent,…
— Michel Foucault
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