Task Quotes

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.