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Quotes About Task

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
~ Arne Jacobsen
Our mission and task has always been to find a pragmatic balance among competing interests that will serve the greatest common good.
~ Carrie Lam
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.
~ Wilhelm Wundt
I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.
~ Dmitry Medvedev
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.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
My work is entirely surgical, and Col. Starr has given me a very interesting task of collecting nerve cases that have had the nerves sewn together. I may also do some experimental work for him.
~ Frederick Banting
God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
~ Faye Dunaway
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
~ Mark Spitz
Too often, U.N. peacekeepers face an impossible task in countries that are still at war and where there is no real peace to keep.
~ Antonio Guterres
Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.
~ Atul Gawande
Getting new information through Web-surfing almost always feels more rewarding than having to generate new information in the work that is in front of us. It therefore takes increasing amounts of self-discipline to stay on task.
~ Daniel Levitin
Replacing traditional sources of energy completely with renewable energy is going to be a challenging task. However, by adding renewable energy to the grid and gradually increasing its contribution, we can realistically expect a future that is powered completely by green energy.
~ Tulsi Tanti
The fundamental problem here is that humans and automation approach the driving task differently.
~ Karl Iagnemma
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
~ Jef Raskin
Making AI more sensitive to the full scope of human thought is no simple task. The solutions are likely to require insights derived from fields beyond computer science, which means programmers will have to learn to collaborate more often with experts in other domains.
~ Fei-Fei Li
A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.
~ Howard Gardner
My major task was to keep us solvent.
~ Cheryl Crawford
The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
~ Pankaj Mishra
Somebody said 'I've got a task here, can you give it to my girlfriend?' And in the task it said 'Marry me'. It was really emotional and really odd, but that sort of thing's happened a few times, weirdly.
~ Alex Horne
When you play an anti-hero, it is a task to make people empathise with your character.
~ Tahir Raj Bhasin
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
~ William Feather
Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.
~ Francois Hollande
We are considered to be a watchdog, the IEA, and a watchdog fulfils its task only if it barks. So I bark when I think there is a need for barking.
~ Fatih Birol