Quotes about task
tasks generations embrace
Chinua Achebe Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
tasks reader
Edward Hirsch As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.
tasks illusion principal
Arthur Schnitzler The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.
tasks artistic solutions
Arne Jacobsen That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.
tasks may architecture
Arne Jacobsen In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
tasks remains has-beens
Madeleine Albright A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.
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Michael Porter Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.
tasks answers might
Carl Jung I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.
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Donald Rumsfeld It is our task to see that that doesn't happen,
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Nick Rimando We know we've got to come in and get more than a 0-0 tie, and it's going to be a big task for us. But I think we're up for it, we know what we're against. We can get a result.
tasks abstract modernization
Dmitry Medvedev I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.
tasks follow-through follow-up
Brian Tracy Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.
tasks problem states
Anton Chekhov The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
tasks holy knows
Dietrich Bonhoeffer While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
tasks turbulent-times jew
Elie Wiesel The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.
tasks guests host
Eleanor Roosevelt A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
tasks band massive
Ed O'Brien For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
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We had our first post-9/11 task and we've miserably failed.
task top toughest win
Bill Belichick The toughest task now is, 'How are you going to top this?' Because we're going to win another one.
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We went back on task at 8.00 this morning.
tasks mishaps
Donal Henahan The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.
tasks censorship lifetime
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.
tasks credit uncertain
Aldrich Ames Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
tasks cost doe
Douglas Rushkoff 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 less money, and without any health insurance costs.
tasks problem solve
Donald Barthelme The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.
tasks forests politician
Donella Meadows Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
tasks doe god-exists
Dalai Lama God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.
tasks management hotel
David Hemmings Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.
tasks judgment impress
Amanda Palmer When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.
tasks students pleasure
Alfie Kohn Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
tasks capacity
Andre Gide The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
tasks generations looks
Richard von Weizsaecker Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.