Task Quotes

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Nothing fails like successâ€”because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable… — Alan Watts
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task. — Andre Gide
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own… — Susan Sontag
Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of… — Vladimir Lenin
Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task. — John Flanagan
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. — Terry Pratchett
He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent non the task at hand that he never looked over his shoulder, even if… — Karen Armstrong
Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population;… — Judith Butler
It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In… — R.J. Rushdoony
The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously… — Knut Hamsun
How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not… — Jeet Thayil
That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propagandaâ€™s task to… — Joseph Goebbels
Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always… — Yasmine Galenorn
It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he… — Philip K. Dick
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of… — Pearl S. Buck
Thereâ€™s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you donâ€™t go… — Terence McKenna
Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up. — Megan Hart
I could see how easy it would be to fall into loving Bella. It would be exactly like falling: effortless. Not letting myself love her… — Stephenie Meyer
Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned our steps west,… — Ann Aguirre
She is carrying herself through the day, and itâ€™s not an easy task. — David Levithan

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