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Task Quotes - page 44

At the end of the last book he published, The Law of Peoples, Rawls sets out the task of "reconciling” members of "liberal democratic” societies to their social order, and interprets his own previous work as contributing to that enterprise. Hegel tried to "reconcile” Prussians in the early 1820s with the Prussian state by showing that, although that state needed some far-reaching reforms, it was nevertheless fundamentally "rational” and conformed to all the intuitive demands for moral acceptability that its members might impose on it.” Similarly, Rawls's work was an attempt to reconcile Americans to an idealised version of their own social order at the end of the twentieth century. (Raymond Geuss)
Even revolutions can only develop and mature the germs which already exist and have made their way into the consciousness of men; they cannot themselves create these germs or create new worlds out of nothing. It therefore concerns us to plant these germs while there is still yet time and bring them to the strongest possible development, so as to make the task of the coming social revolution easier and to ensure its permanence. View quote
Rudolf Rocker
Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm, the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air. I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song, for I know well that only words, that words alone, like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt. There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal. Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite . View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality" says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise? View quote
Iris Murdoch
We work in the dark-we do what we can-we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Neurosis was caused by our attempt to separate physical and metaphysical levels, to set them up in opposition to each other, thus engaging in an internecine war. If it is true that we do live on several levels simultaneously- drama and action, past and present, personal and collective- we are given ways to unify them: one by religion, the other by art. Separating such levels is only necessary when they conflict, and separation is a result of conflict. Seeing how these levels can work together in harmony is the task of our contemporary writers. View quote
Anaïs Nin
The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization. (John Foster Dulles)
The most important task in my term is to improve the economy. View quote
Chen Shui-bian
The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people. View quote
Donald Trump
On tour I'm so invisible to myself, it's just one task after another. View quote
Leslie Feist
I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind, is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it, by the most uninterrupted career of conquests. View quote
George Washington
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. View quote
Francis de Sales
It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to be dealt with directly as such. No more critical task can be projected for the 1970s than that of seeking for civilized society a new, elevated set of value guidelines more suited to man's expanded numbers and new powers over nature, a frame of reference for value priorities that will act to secure and conserve our world instead of destroying it. View quote
Roger Wolcott Sperry
It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail. View quote
Jeannette Rankin
A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without vision is but drudgery. A vision and a task are the hope of the world. (Dinah Craik)
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on. View quote
Jeremy Renner
A woman with a mind is fit for any task. View quote
Christine de Pizan
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it. View quote
Yo-Yo Ma