Tasks Quotes
- If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning. — Jean Piaget
- One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work. Whereas in the… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
- I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if… — Stanley Hauerwas
- The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window… — John Cheever
- The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear… — Sydney J. Harris
- The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can;… — William Feather
- Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we… — Benjamin B. Ferencz
- We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance. — Laurens van der Post
- It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes. — Edward Gardner
- I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential. — Gerhard Richter
- Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said. — Jane Hirshfield
- I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks. — Steffi Graf
- We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing. — Zinedine Zidane
- It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an… — Kathe Kollwitz
- There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation… — Bruno Walter
- Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the… — William Lloyd Garrison
- Have I ever been horrified to see someone in my clothes? Many times, but I close my eyes and look the other way. That happens… — Carolina Herrera
- Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as… — William Lane Craig
- Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our… — E F Schumacher