Quotes about tasks
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