Tasks Quotes
1915 quotes by 1287 authors
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It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed…
— Kofi Annan
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Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.
— Pope Francis
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On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It…
— Niels Bohr
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What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought…
— Bertrand Russell
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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I…
— Henri Matisse
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Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to…
— Tim Field
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It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
— M. Scott Peck
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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Approach difficult tasks with a positive attitude - you'll inspire others and feel better about what's ahead
— Denise Austin
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Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to…
— John C. Maxwell
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Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of…
— Hugh Prather
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And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears…
— Khalil Gibran
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I think the most important CEO task is defining the course that the business will take over the next five or so years. You have…
— Chris Corrigan
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We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as…
— Vladimir Lenin
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The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we…
— George Wald
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