Tasks Quotes

1915 quotes by 1287 authors

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the… — David McCullough
Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else. — George Bernard Shaw
If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative strategies and plotting… — David Platt
Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play. — Soren Kierkegaard
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters. — Idries Shah
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come… — Freeman Dyson
But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do… — Truman Capote
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. — Frank Herbert
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power… — Bryce Courtenay
The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created? — Marcus Aurelius
To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help.… — Dan Ariely
I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past… — Nikki Giovanni
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art… — Marcel Proust
Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment. — George S. Clason
All of which raises the question â€“ your task, burden, privilege, call it what you like â€“ a question which men and women, great and… — Ron Currie Jr.
It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact… — Kazuo Ishiguro
courting is for those who have not declared their love for one another- should not be considered a task. — Julie Garwood
Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd… — Anne Lamott
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes… — Jane Hamilton

Who Wrote These Tasks Quotes

1,287 authors contributed a total of 1,915 Tasks Quotes, led by these top contributors: