Tasks Quotes

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

We plan to spend 20 billion lari ($12 billion) from the budget in the next four years on implementation of all tasks presented in our new programme.

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt.

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.

The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.