Task Quotes - page 4

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. (Friedrich Hayek)
Be brief, be pointed, let your matter stand Lucid in order, solid and at hand; Spend not your words on trifles but condense; Strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense; Press to close with vigor, once begun, And leave, (how hard the task!) leave off, when done. View quote
Joseph Story
Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force? View quote
Kent Hovind
We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art. View quote
Käthe Kollwitz
No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. View quote
Viktor Frankl
The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members. View quote
Adam Weishaupt
The play is done the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompters bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task And when hes laughed and said his say He shows, as he removes the mask, A face thats anything but gay. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach. View quote
Margaret Mead
The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist. View quote
Jane Addams
I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task." View quote
Samuel Johnson
It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us. View quote
Emil Cioran
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. View quote
Emil Cioran
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry. View quote
E. O. Wilson
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life. (B. F. Skinner)
Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in generous measure. Now I demand more of you. Men, money and materials cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits. View quote
Subhas Chandra Bose
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. View quote
Iris Murdoch
The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger. View quote
Anthony de Mello
No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life. View quote
Cyril Connolly