Task Quotes

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Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little… — William Osler
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. — Erich Fromm
Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral, spiritual and ethical… — Maurice Strong
Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. — Robert Breault
The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the… — Joseph Rotblat
Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and… — Aristotle
Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in life when we… — Abraham Lincoln
Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group… — James F. Amos
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical… — William Bennett
Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new… — Che Guevara
"Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because… — Mao Zedong
The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy… — Ludwig von Mises
The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity. — Lewis Mumford
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each… — Marcel Proust
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from… — Margaret Wertheim
Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of… — Sugata Mitra
As people do a task, they improve at it. — Emily Oster
If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task. — Evgeny Morozov
Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this… — Howard Rheingold

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