Tasks Quotes - Page 16

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.

To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.

The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.

Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.

Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.

If someone asks you to make a cup of coffee, make the best cup of coffee they’ve ever had, because why would they trust you with anything else if you can’t do that? No task is too small.

I have a task that is greater than all the labors assigned to Hercules. It demands that I live in the richness of this moment because that is all I have or will ever know.

Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.

Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.

Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.

The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.