Quotes About Task

I considered that the world, and especially the cinema, was burdened with false gods. My task was to overthrow them. Sword in hand, I was ready to consecrate my life to the task. But the false gods are still there. My perseverance during a half-century of cinema has perhaps helped to topple a few of them. It has likewise helped me to discover that some of the gods were real, and had no need to be toppled.

One should embrace the artist's profession only after recognising in oneself an intense passion for Nature and the disposition to pursue it with a perseverance that nothing can shatter - thirst for neither approval nor financial profit. Do not be discouraged by the censure that might fall upon one's works - one must be armoured with a strong conviction which makes one go straight ahead fearing no obstacle. An unremitting task […] an unassailable conscience. (From a sketchbook of 1847).

Lydia knows she's increased their chances of survival. She needs to take encouragement where she can find it. She mustn't despair at the enormity of the task yet ahead. She should focus only on the immediate next steps.

Briançon, and Grenoble. His task

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first then implement to the interface design.

Once taken off one task without completing the transaction, the mind continues to seek closure. Fight to stay focused on the task at hand.

Consider Microsoft Word. Until the mid-1990s, repaginating a document was a foreground task. You had to invoke the Repaginate command and then wait many seconds—for long documents, minutes—for it to complete before you could return to editing the document.

A sea-level task is one we'd expect to complete before intentionally stopping to do something else.

Taking an active hand in evaluating alternatives is a task that is largely nonexistent in conventional selling.

But this—this is always the same task over and over, to explore cryptozoology of a crude sort. All that changes is the type of animal, and the only challenge is whether the jaws on a crocodile can reasonably be expected to fit onto a bear. For example.

I could stare at this forever: swirling stars in the background and a human being, a real live human, lost in a task.

During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task. I wanted to take on pleasure like a homework assignment, or a giant science fair project.

What the deuce does religion have to do with being a good minister? It is a profession like any other profession, young man. You fit yourself to the task, and keep your opinions private. That is what all good ministers do—or should!

Treason is always a conspiracy; it's too big a task for one man, and throughout history has been the work of groups.

There was even a trace of mild exhilaration in their attitude. At least, they had a clear-cut task ahead of them. The nine months of indecision, of speculation about what might happen, of aimless drifting with the pack were over. Now they simply had to get themselves out, however appallingly difficult that might be.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

She was working at her computer in her office, doing admin, which is short for administration, which is short for migraine-stimulant.

There's work to do.

But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human connectedness in a world where all connectedness has become problematic

There are few problems a Gallagher Girl can face that cannot be improved by a job. A task. A target.

I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.

If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.