Tasks Quotes - Page 25

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

People should be hired "as is" and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which they have the greatest aptitude and in which they have the greatest interest.

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.

Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

We face such a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while.

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.

Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?

An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

[T]he task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity of today's practice of life, the summit of which is the money system.

If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

The task of a leader is to simplify. You should be able to explain where you need to go in two minutes.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

To face tomorrow with the thought of using the methods of yesterday is to envision life at a standstill. To keep ahead, each one of us, no matter what our task, must search for new and better methods-for even that which we now do well must be done better tomorrow.

I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.