Tasks Quotes - Page 12

The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood

Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.

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.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

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

All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

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

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.

As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.

To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

The task I'm trying to achieve, above all, is to make you see.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.