Asks Quotes - Page 14

Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

If someone hates you, they won't ask you for things.

A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.

Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.

I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task.

If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.

When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.

When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done.

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.

Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be increased by any amount of ingenuity expended in their statistical examination: that the statistician's task, in fact, is limited to the extraction of the whole of the available information on any particular issue.

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

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

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

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

I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.

I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.