Tasks Quotes - Page 4

The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life, the more you realize that how you use it, how you manifest it, is all your responsibility. We face such a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while.

One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task............ .....Thus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.

If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.

The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment.

Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.

What is usually called 'intelligence' refers to the linguistic and logical capacities that are valued in certain kinds of school and for certain school-like tasks. It leaves little if any room for spatial intelligence, personal intelligences, musical intelligence, etc.

O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find.

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to do.