Task Quotes

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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human. — Louise Erdrich
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate… — C.S. Lewis
When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say anything at all and you… — Hillary Jordan
Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read… — Pat Conroy
Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting… — Barack Obama
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save… — Hannah Arendt
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the… — David McCullough
Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else. — George Bernard Shaw
If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative strategies and plotting… — David Platt
Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play. — Soren Kierkegaard
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters. — Idries Shah
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come… — Freeman Dyson
But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do… — Truman Capote
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. — Frank Herbert
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power… — Bryce Courtenay
The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created? — Marcus Aurelius
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art… — Marcel Proust

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