Tasks Quotes
1915 quotes by 1287 authors
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Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
— Aldrich Ames
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The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
— Aldrich Ames
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If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the…
— Richard Mitchell
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An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts…
— Mac Anderson
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We live in a world of energy. An important task at this time is to learn to sense or see the energy of everyone and…
— Carlos Barrios
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I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit,…
— Kurt Hahn
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The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.
— Alan Redpath
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which…
— Alan Redpath
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Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them.
— Herman Kahn
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The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
— Philip Wylie
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Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the…
— David F. Wells
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In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young…
— Richard Louv
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Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see…
— Michael Leunig
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If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.
— David Seabury
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Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
— Bear Grylls
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Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention…
— Ben Horowitz
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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go…
— Jeffrey Pfeffer
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