Quotes About Task

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

There was an inexhaustible source of clouds in some land far to the north. Decisive people, minds fixed on the task, clothed in thick, gray uniforms, working silently from morning to night to make clouds, like bees make honey, spiders make webs, and war makes widows.

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

I've had students at Yale: my main task with them in drama school was not helping them with their writing but showing them how valuable they were. Because they're ready to give it up and go into teaching or television.

Pooper scooper? Yeah, I've done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to.

It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

I didn't learn Chinese to write 'Confucius.' That would've been a monumental task. I have three friends who can translate Chinese text for me; all three helped me with my research on Confucius. They are acknowledged in my acknowledgements in the book.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

the purpose of life on earth is to achieve union with our fundamental, enlightened nature. The "task" for which the "king" has sent us into this strange, dark country is to realize and embody our true being.

To exert his power in doing good is man?s most glorious task.

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

History extols, not the beginner but the completer. She puts the victor on a pedestal, while leaving the mere combatant in obscurity. Thus has it been with Mesmer, the first of the new psychologists, whose ungrateful task it was to be born before his time.

Solo quien conoce las profundidades, conoce la vida completa. Solo el retroceso da al hombre toda su energía para avanzar. El genio creador necesita esta forzada soledad temporal para medir desde la lejanía de la exclusión el horizonte y la altura de su verdadera tarea.

It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.

Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

The world is hungry to hear the truth. ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?

It is a difficult task Oh citizens to make speeches to the belly which has no ears.

Aronson split off to go back to work on

To be a great Technician is simply insufficient to the task of building a great small business. Being consumed by the tactical work of the business, as every Technician suffering from an Entrepreneurial Seizure is, leads to only one thing: a complicated, frustrating, and, eventually, demeaning job!

Knowing where the money is and where it will be when you need it is a critically important task of both the Contractor-as-Employee and the Contractor-as-Owner.

Complexity of the task is another important factor as to how levels of arousal affect the quality of performance. Simple tasks use and tolerate more arousal than complex ones.

When chopping onions, just chop onions.

Doing a single was always on my to-do list.