Tasks Quotes - Page 31

It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.

We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that life has reserved for him.

The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.

Our conscious minds are rapidly overwhelmed with the few tasks that they attempt to manage. That's why our unconscious minds have evolved to handle so much of our thinking.

Panic, not the task, is the enemy.

It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.

The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

Claim the possibility of a miraculous shift toward global transformation, allow the thought to move through you like a wave of energy, then emerge ready for the task of doing your part to make it happen.

A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.

A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.