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Task Quotes by Donald Barthelme
- The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.
- The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.
- The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing…
More Task Quotes
- Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if… — Marcus Aurelius
- Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face… — William Barclay
- Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the… — Jack Adams
- It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that… — Karl Barth
- To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett
- We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the… — Ed Begley, Jr.
- The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world -… — Pope Benedict XVI
- The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it. — Ezra Taft Benson
- The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. — Henri Bergson
- To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each… — Sarah Bernhardt
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is… — Wendell Berry