Tasks Quotes - Page 35

By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.

The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in hand. . . .

At some level, you have to be able to say, "This is my task." It's in small, local ways that you keep yourself alive and refresh ideas that are always going into dead abstraction.

But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.

Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task that they are not encouraged to sit back and philosophize.

This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it?

The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing.

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.

Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, and to grant permission for reading forbidden books, but also to supervise, ex officio, books that are being published, and to pass sentence on such as deserve to be prohibited.

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.

The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.

First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you have a heightened emotional sensitivity and you have the ability to listen to multiple conversations at one time and multi-task.

As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.