Tasks Quotes
1915 quotes by 1287 authors
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Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.
— Joe Abercrombie
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A daily creative project is like a marathon. It's a ridiculously daunting task, but making an original creation every day gives you an incredible sense…
— Noah Scalin
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But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost…
— Paul Lester Wiener
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Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be…
— Queen Victoria
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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next…
— Laozi
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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
— Craig Raine
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Sure they say we (women) are life givers not takers, but guess what, most women can multi-task and be life givers and fighters. Boxing is…
— Sonya Lamonakis
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The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning…
— Edward Weston
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood of…
— Douglas MacArthur
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
— Edward Abbey
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I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good…
— Douglas Adams
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To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation,…
— Yousuf Karsh
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The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were…
— James Madison
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The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.
— Lillian Wald
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We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task,
— Angela Merkel
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On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the…
— Carl Jung
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All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from…
— Carl Jung
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