Tasks Quotations | Page 6

Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.

It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.

I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.

The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.

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

The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.

We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to its original grandeur, and hope to have completed the task before your RSVP.

We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of peace after the fighting is over has always been a difficult task.

All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer.

Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!

We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit.

But the heart of Christianity is Good News. It comes not as a task for us to fulfill, a mission for us to accomplish, a game plan for us to follow with the help of life coaches, but as a report that someone else has already fulfilled, accomplished, followed, and achieved everything for us.

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.

The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.

When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.

The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

I feel my task is done. I feel a sense of satisfaction, ... It's the moment and I seized it.

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.

The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.

One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.

Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that isn't always the case, his attitude is more fruitful since, in the hope of undertaking a hundred projects, followed up by diligent action, the optimist will end up completing fifty. Conversely, in limiting himself to undertake a mere ten, the pessimist might complete five at best and often fewer, since he'll devote little energy to a task he feels to be doomed from the start.

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

Since - in my belief system - we each get only one go-round here on planet Earth, it is the task of the writer to interpret, examine, and reflect on the specifics of their one and only life experience.

Claim the possibility of a miraculous shift toward global transformation, allow the thought to move through you like a wave of energy, then emerge ready for the task of doing your part to make it happen.

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.

When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'

The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.

I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.

The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.

Panic, not the task, is the enemy.

There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.

To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

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.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to do.

He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.

Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.

The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very ... high maintenance.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change....

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy. But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.

All of the pieces, or different tasks (in the grant), are all things that are going to help us do a better job of managing the resources in Humboldt Bay.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.

Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful.

Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of Gaia may facilitate the task of converting destructive human activities to constructive and cooperative behavior. It is an idea which deeply startles us, and in the process, may help us as a species to make the necessary jump to planetary awareness.

The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were not concerned in the execution of it. Adding to these considerations the natural diversity of human opinions on all new and complicated subjects, it is impossible to consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

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.

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.