Tasks Quotes - Page 24

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

... this task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we are often driven by pride of domination, of possessions, manipulation, of exploitation; we do not "care" for it, we do not respect it, we do not consider it as a free gift that we must care for.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence of encountering the world. A fuller description of the task would be to say our aim is to discover what happens to us as we consider things.

Decision making is the specific executive task.

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!

Everybody has to share something. This is one of the most important laws of the human condition, is the necessity to share. This is the task of the writer - but not only of a writer, of every human being - it is to share something that he or she has.

We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.

Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now.

Add little to little and there will be a big pile.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.

Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.

If I was as relaxed as what I perceived myself to be, I would not be able to multi-task the way I multi-task.

The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

Since - in my belief system - we each get only one go-round here on planet Earth, it is the task of the writer to interpret, examine, and reflect on the specifics of their one and only life experience.

One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

I feel my task is done. I feel a sense of satisfaction, ... It's the moment and I seized it.

What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason.

Today, we take to task any governmental body that doesn't protect animals, and take legal action if necessary.