Tasks Quotes

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Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each… — Viktor E. Frankl
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided. — Albert Bandura
Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would… — B.F. Skinner
The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of… — Ronald Reagan
If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of… — Archibald MacLeish
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in lifeâ€”becoming a better person. — Leo Tolstoy
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. — Arthur Miller
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the… — Virginia Woolf
The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that… — Wassily Kandinsky
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over… — Simone de Beauvoir
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. — Emile M. Cioran
Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective… — Soren Kierkegaard
When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers… — Helen Keller
We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity,… — Michael Gurian
Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with… — Robert Burns
Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days. — Isaac Asimov
For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment. — Tom Peters
We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to… — Jeremy Rifkin
Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows. — Bill Rodgers

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