Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The task that lies before me is daunting and the rewards are uncertain. I should probably let someone else do it.
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.
Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list
A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.
Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.
Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.
This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.
I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.
This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.
Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.
There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.
Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.
As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.
The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.
Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.
Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.
The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.
There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.
The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.
Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.
Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.
Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.
The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.