Tasks Quotes - Page 10

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.

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.

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

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.

The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization.

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.

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.

God has given believers the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to all the world, and we need to use all at our disposal to accomplish this task.

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new