Task Quotes

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The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in… — Mark Helprin
Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching… — Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination. — Atul Gawande
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is… — James Thurber
Most couples make the mistake of giving each other the remains of the daythe leftover time after every other relationship and task has been attended… — Rhoberta Shaler PhD
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. — Henry Brooks Adams
Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want… — Mary Kay Utecht
Parenting is an awesome task. It is my job as a professional to be sure that mothers, fathers and entire families see it also as… — Ruth W Lubic
For to do things with care is the closest thing to love that I know the cape of grace falling softly about the shoulders as… — Jane Siberry
It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how… — Edith Wharton
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more… — Henry David Thoreau
In a football game and in the corporate workplace there is a huge difference between teams that achieve great success and teams that become dismal… — Reed Markham
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of… — Albert Einstein
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and… — Helen Keller
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the… — Marcel Proust
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway… — Daisaku Ikeda
Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours it is mine, and if it is mine it is yours. We must do… — Howard Hewlett Clark
Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours -- to ours.… — Savitri Devi

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