Tasks Quotations | Page 3

The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all – from the most simple task to the most complex.

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.

The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

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.

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

Father, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask.

There are so many people afraid of a task. They get so overwhelmed by the obstacles in front of them that they shy away from reaching beyond a position of safety.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.

You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!

The provisions allow 11 different tasks that Idaho Fish and Game and the state will be responsible for, eight of those 11 involve killing wolves.

'Toybox' is that kind of game that will stretch your mental capacity by doing very simple things like solving an easy puzzle of shooting aliens. You'll just need to do everything at the same time to make it through alive. Just to make things tricky, the tasks change every week so you can't get used to any set.

We are growing increasingly concerned about the District's ability to meet the agreed-upon December 31, 2005 deadline, by which date a number of critical tasks in the Baseball Stadium Agreement must be completed,

We're done with our tasks on the expedition.

We are giving ourselves what we hope is plenty of time to evaluate where we are, ... We don't see the tasks remaining before us being as difficult as the path behind us.

We plan to spend 20 billion lari ($12 billion) from the budget in the next four years on implementation of all tasks presented in our new programme.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

I really do like surprises. I'm not so talented at planning things out or having schedules before or sticking to the plan per se, but yeah I'm very much a spontaneous guy and it's sort of hard for me to multi-task and to have all these things going on at once.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt. There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal. Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.

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.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history, to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently

Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task,

If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.

Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on time. My lieutenant would say, 'If you don't, you die.' In many ways, life is the same. If you don't pay attention to a timeline, you lose out on the ability to accomplish the task at hand.

The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done...

Mexico is divided over the results of its presidential election. The U.S.had offered to send in a task force to help determine the outcome, but unfortunately the Supreme Court is currently not in session.

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry

Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected.

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.

I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.

The task I'm trying to achieve, above all, is to make you see.

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.

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

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

The world is hungry to hear the truth. ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?

To seek out beauty in our work is to make a pilgrimage of our labors, to understand that the consummation of work lies not only in what we have done, but who we have become while accomplishing the task.

When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

To that end, we must step up the Party building theory study in a way that is in line with the new historical conditions and historical tasks the CPC is facing.

You need to make sure that you are where you think you are indispensable. And dedicate your task to that,

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.

Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.

But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.

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.

With today's computing needs, there is generally a greater need to be able to handle a large number of tasks simultaneously, as opposed to single, difficult tasks.

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.

I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.

Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.

We're still at the beginning of a huge effort, ... The tasks before us are enormous.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

As governor of Ohio, I have an obligation to keep the 11.5 million people in Ohio safe. And we have been very effective with our Joint Terrorism Task Force, being able to make busts.

Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.