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Task Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
- What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
- What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
- Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual…
- Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
- The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you…
- A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
- The never-ending task of self improvement.
- I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their…
- 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…
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- 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