Tasks Quotes - Page 22

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.

I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles - that's when I felt good, normal, balanced.

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task.

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.

By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.