Task Quotes

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It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing… — Jorge Luis Borges
Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature — Albert Einstein
To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in… — Aldous Huxley
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something… — Jorge Luis Borges
Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright… — J.R.R. Tolkien
As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else… — Maria V. Snyder
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
â€¦Itâ€™s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validityâ€¦.But Iâ€™ve long since lost all such doubts, Ono,â€™ he continued.… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Onlyâ€”I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a maiden in a… — Catherynne M. Valente
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. — Rainer Maria Rilke
The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own… — Daniel H. Pink
The directorâ€™s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the… — Andrei Tarkovsky
We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a… — Yukio Mishima
It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of… — Kristin Hannah
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from… — Thomas Mann
When you write, itâ€™s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still… — Edwidge Danticat
Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting… — Alice Hoffman
All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly… — Neil Gaiman
Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more… — Donald Miller

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