Tasks Quotes
1915 quotes by 1247 authors
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The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.
— Al Gore
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To set us on a clear path, it is important to communicate well, at least with ourselves. To know what we want, to know what…
— Rosemary Altea
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It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to brood over our…
— Lettie Cowman
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You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some…
— Stephen Covey
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[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn…
— Slavoj Žižek
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A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It…
— Thomas Merton
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Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task…
— Rene Dubos
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The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most…
— Cyndi Lee
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I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like…
— Mary C. Ames
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The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them…
— Jimmy Reid
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done.
— Horace
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The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices…
— Adelaide Anne Procter
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The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized.
— Jude Bijou
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