Quotes about task
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. Mahatma Gandhi
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 world changing-the-world
Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world. Tariq Ramadan
tasks exciting difficult
I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting. Victoria Azarenka
tasks generations looks
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. Richard von Weizsaecker
tasks pleasant
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones. Viktor E. Frankl
tasks memes ifs
Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate. Terence McKenna
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 language creation
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work. Walter Benjamin
tasks opinion telling-the-truth
Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders. Walter Cronkite
tasks impossible accomplish
All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task. Wilhelm von Humboldt
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 done hard
He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun. Ursula K. Le Guin
tasks overwhelming smallest
Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component. Richard Russo
tasks impossible life-is
A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task. Sri Chinmoy