Tasks Quotes - Page 41

I'm a utility infielder. There's always somebody who is better at a specific task than I am, but I can pitch in at a bunch of different things as needed.

The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power.

The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"

If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.

It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.

It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them, to learn to be perfect in your meditation, and to win in all your endeavors so that one day you will complete again.

If the Zen master sees that it will cause a person to progress, he will ask that person to do a task. The task is charged with power if it's performed properly. It's a koan between yourself and the Zen Master.

As Buddhists, our only task is to keep our room clean.

Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

I find it exciting to get any historical material from the ground. As you know, I love to put ancient Israel and its literature into their ancient contexts. And to rebuild - that is, to me, a very exciting historical task.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

I believe in fierce love, pushing the edge, calling the robbers, the corporates, the elites, the pillagers and insanely wealthy to task, going whatever distance we need to go now to protect our earth and each other.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

Regardless of how little time and work someone takes to perform a task, there has to be a more efficient and effective way to perform it.

There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.

The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.

The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.