Tasks Quotes

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Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals — John Vanbrugh
Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women's dresses, writes… — Azar Nafisi
I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to… — Winston Churchill
The great task of the peace is to work morals into it. The only sort of peace that will be real is one in which… — Frederic Eggleston
Design a clear and simple interface. The primary task of the interface is to present the player with a choice of the available actions at… — Jordan Mechner
The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering… — Sophocles
We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us. — Alan Autry
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of… — Robert Sheckley
Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that… — Matthieu Ricard
Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient… — Alain de Botton
No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task. — Charles R. Swindoll
Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because… — Rick Warren
This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals… — Helen Keller
To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the enemy, I… — Harry S. Truman
The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive. — John W. Gardner
The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of… — Noam Chomsky
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human… — Eric Hoffer
Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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