Task Quotes - page 3

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. (Michelangelo)
We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task. View quote
Angela Merkel
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. View quote
Erich Fromm
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. View quote
Brian Tracy
In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving - from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
The most important political task facing the out-of-power party- the Democrats for now- is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign. View quote
Pat Sajak
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life-becoming a better person. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. View quote
Haim Ginott
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design. (Jef Raskin)
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. View quote
Albert Einstein
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task. View quote
Martha Stout
It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated. View quote
Herbert M. Shelton
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. View quote
Arthur Henderson
The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valéry once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations. View quote
Daniel Dennett
The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation. View quote
Elie Ducommun
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within – for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster. View quote
Suetonius
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness. (Mary Wollstonecraft)
Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times. View quote
Antonin Scalia
Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities. View quote
Alain de Botton
When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task. View quote
George Soros
The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task. View quote
Maria Montessori