Tasks Quotes - Page 17

No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.

The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace

The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.

Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected.

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

When you come upon a difficult task ... start.

The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.