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Quotes About Task

Setting the state budget is one of the most important tasks we undertake at the state Capitol - because after all, it's the people's money - not the government's.
~ Doug Ducey
Keeping up your concentration is one of the hardest tasks when you're a centre-back because a team like Bayern tend to dominate and can give you sense of false security.
~ Jerome Boateng
To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.
~ Chuck Schumer
You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.
~ Karl Pilkington
As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.
~ Robert Brault
We programmers simply do not know how long things will take. This isn't because we are incompetent or lazy; it's because there is simply no way to know how complicated a task is going to be until that task is engaged and finished. But, as we'll see, all is not lost.
~ Robert C. Martin
The fact that the task to write perfect software is virtually impossible does not mean you aren't responsible for the imperfection.
~ Robert C. Martin
People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands that it be that way. There's no villain, no "mean guy" who wants them to live meaningless lives, it's just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
her most serious shortcoming seemed to be a tendency to fall into daydreams in the middle of a task and forget all about it until such time as she was sharply recalled to earth by a reprimand or a catastrophe.
~ L.M. Montgomery
If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.
~ Larry Kramer
His memories were too sad, his hopes too thin. To have to say things on paper seemed a terrible task, for it stirred the memories.
~ Larry McMurtry
He was annoyed with his mind—it would be a lot easier to do his task well if his mind would just behave and not keep making him scared.
~ Larry McMurtry
He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every nerve to recognize them, but it was not easy.
~ Lawrence Durrell
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.
~ Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
~ Max Planck
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.
~ C. Wright Mills
We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task.
~ Angela Merkel
Debate is never finished; it can't be, lest democracy be no longer democratic and society be stripped of or forfeit its autonomy. Democracy means that the citizen's task is never complete. Democracy exists through persevering and unyielding citizens' concern. Once that concern is put to sleep, democracy expires.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
En otras palabras, la consiste en transformar la humana de algo en una , y en hacer responsables a los actores de la realización de esta tarea y de las consecuencias (así como los efectos colaterales) de su desempeño.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
En otras palabras, la individualización consiste en transformar la identidad humana de algo 'dado' en una 'tarea', y en hacer responsables a los actores de la realización de esta tarea y de las consecuencias (así como de los efectos colaterales) de su desempeño.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
It is useless endeavor to fight the ego in the open; like a wounded hydra, it produces two heads for every one cut off. We must not indulge in self-scrutinization; we must not concentrate upon the problem of egocentricity. The way to purify the self is to avoid dwelling upon the self and to concentrate upon the task.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
The true goal for man is to be what he does. The worth of a religion is the worth of the individuals living it. A mitsvah, therefore, is not mere doing but an act that embraces both the doer and the deed. The means may be external, but the end is personal. Your deeds be pure, so that ye shall be holy. A hero is he who is greater than his feats, and a pious man is he who is greater than his rituals. The deed is definite, yet the task is infinite.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Rabbi Tarfon said: "You are not called upon to complete the task, yet you are not free to evade it." Whatever we do is only a partial fulfillment; the rest is completed by God.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel