Tasks Quotes
1915 quotes by 1287 authors
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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our…
— Albert Camus
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Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of…
— Haruki Murakami
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The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.
— Leonora Carrington
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One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to…
— Albert Camus
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do…
— James Dean
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Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become…
— Og Mandino
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Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there…
— Kate Atkinson
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The never-ending task of self improvement.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the…
— A. J. Jacobs
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And that's why i have to go back to so many places there to find myself and constantly examine myself with no witness but the…
— Pablo Neruda
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we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they…
— John O'Donohue
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The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their…
— Derrick Jensen
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We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving…
— Kate DiCamillo
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Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they…
— Bryce Courtenay
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The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to…
— Henri Nouwen
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