Tasks Quotes - Page 19

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.

My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

To generous souls every task is noble.

Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all – from the most simple task to the most complex.

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected.

The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.

Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.