Task Quotes

Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

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.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

Be larger than your task.

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.