Task Quotes - page 2

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! (Manuel Puig)
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. View quote
Pierre Loti
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip. View quote
Phoebe Cary
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ''How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style'' and avoid ''How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece'' View quote
James Thurber
It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. View quote
Graham Greene
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. View quote
David Lloyd George
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. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions. (John Rawls)
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened. View quote
Lucian
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. View quote
Karen Blixen
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. View quote
Anaïs Nin
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. View quote
John Buchan
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. View quote
John Cheever
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
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. View quote
Helen Keller
Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principal task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view. (Kurt Gödel)
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. View quote
Anatole France
The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. View quote
Helen Rowland
That which we persist in doing becomes easier not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. View quote
Morgan Freeman