Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!

Oscar Wilde

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

I give myself a task. This time, the task was to do a musical.

He was disappointed in his finish, but I wasn't. He had two lifetime-best swims, so you can't be too disappointed. He swam well. It's a tough task to make it to state.

James C. Collins

Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list

Eugene H. Peterson

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

Ezra Taft Benson

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

George W. Bush

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Ferdinand de Saussure

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

Helen Keller

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves....

Friedrich Nietzsche

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Franz Boas

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life

Franz Grillparzer

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

Franz Grillparzer

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

B. F. Skinner

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

Ernst Mach

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

Gong Li

Securing food is the basic task for all humans,

Hank Aaron

Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry -- keep swinging at them.

Guy Finley

Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

Jakob Nielsen

Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user's task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large.

Jean Moulin

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

We're done with our tasks on the expedition.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

David Levithan

She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.

We're trying to get to where we were before. It's a tough task but we've done it before.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.