Quotes about task
tasks opinion telling-the-truth
Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders. Walter Cronkite
tasks venture sound
I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original. William Cowper
tasks impossible accomplish
All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task. Wilhelm von Humboldt
tasks each-day way
Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask. Helen Hunt Jackson
task tough
It's going to be a tough task as they are two very tough games, Steve Davis
tasks world
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it. Karl Marx
tasks levels way
If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this. Julia Gillard
tasks surprise abandon
As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises. Oswald Chambers
tasks cleaning cleaning-up
And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit. Julia Quinn
tasks looks waste
Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time. Bruce Schneier
tasks consecration
It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing. Martin Buber
tasks saws construction
Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized. Peter Singer
tasks citizens ears
It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears. Plutarch
tasks spurs socialism
Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control. Terry Eagleton
tasks memes ifs
Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate. Terence McKenna
tasks waking buttons
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers? Lewis Mumford
tasks feels
My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything. Joseph Conrad
tasks common rounds
The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask. John Keble
tasks flight theory
Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.
tasks inevitable improbable
Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable. Joseph J. Ellis
tasks should
courting is for those who have not declared their love for one another- should not be considered a task. Julie Garwood
tasks virtue sanctity
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. Otto Weininger
tasks difficult ifs
If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you. Joyce Meyer
tasks christ intensity
Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious. Paul Tournier
tasks
Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it. Joe Abercrombie
tasks language tension
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! Manuel Puig
tasks example losing
Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward. Mao Zedong
tasks dies
That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die. John Berryman
tasks ends my-time
I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task. Lord Acton
tasks historian happened
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened. Lucian
tasks easy easy-tasks
It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom. Mahatma Gandhi
tasks
Concentrate on your task.
tasks
Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful. James Surowiecki