"Your first task is to see the sorrow……" — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

More First Task Quotes

This quote is filed under First Task Quotes, one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher. — Maria Montessori
• Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task… — Saint Augustine
• If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we… — William Graham Sumner
• The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match… — Helenio Herrera
• If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form… — Jean Piaget
• The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems. — Stanley Kunitz
• The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. — Joseph Batten
• Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities… — Herman Kahn
• Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make… — Eugen Herrigel
• Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time. — R. Murray Schafer
• Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with… — Marc Morial
• The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable. — Aleister Crowley

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