Asks Quotes - Page 9

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the I, under another form, continues the task of existence.

Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present.

We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves.

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

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

Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.

Go see, ask why, show respect.

Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything.

The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

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.

As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.

Some things are better done than described.

If someone ever asks you to do something for them, do it really bad so you never have to do it again.

If you ever have to ask someone else's opinion on a trade, you shouldn't be in it.