Tasks Quotes - Page 26

The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.

The mind can wander while still focusing on one task.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

Sometimes I listen to the radio and I can't believe some of the stuff that I'm hearing that everyone is loving. So it's a task that we've got to conquer and we have to make sure that we pass the test.

One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

To seek out beauty in our work is to make a pilgrimage of our labors, to understand that the consummation of work lies not only in what we have done, but who we have become while accomplishing the task.

A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.