Asks Quotes - Page 26

Don't get stampeded by what people around you value. The task is to figure out what YOU value - and value highly enough to throw yourself into with unqualified passion.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

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

The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness.

Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.

The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

To keep Nigeria ONE, is a task that must be DONE.

How do you ask a woman to gargle your nuts?

Don't ask the world to change....you change first.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

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.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God.

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.

My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.