Tasks Quotes
1915 quotes by 1287 authors
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
— Mao Zedong
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Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken…
— Clara Zetkin
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The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure…
— Martin Filler
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In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.
— Geoff Mulgan
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Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts…
— Albert Einstein
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is,…
— Joseph Conrad
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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted…
— Pope John Paul II
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What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and…
— Aldous Huxley
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The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
— George Eliot
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
— Anthony Trollope
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
— Rumi
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We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to…
— Louise Erdrich
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Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often…
— Lloyd Alexander
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Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few.
— Thomas S. Monson
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Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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