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Quotes About Task

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~ Greg Egan
Then you have to be nothing. Want nothing. You can't have them-Kat or Annabel-if you need them. You're not a husband. You're not a father. You're a man with a task. Understand?
~ Greg Hurwitz
The essential task for a defenseman in his own end is to not allow an offensive player room to create, and to force that player into doing things he doesn't want to do with the puck.
~ Greg Wyshynski
On my team we often reminded ourselves that for each task we have two goals: first, accomplish the task, but also to improve the way it's done in the future.
~ Gregor Hohpe
One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.
~ Gustav Heinemann
For all his frustrations and his chronic sense of being overburdened. He was proud of that; he'd always felt that it was worth doing a task properly if it was worth doing at all. That was part of his problem, of course; that was why he ended up with so much to do. It was also the source of his own particular pride: he knew--and he was certain they knew that there was no one else who could handle details such as these as well as he.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
These two, the memories of last autumn, could be addressed later—if she chose. Right now, she had a task, and she could very much use whatever payment they ended up offering.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!
~ Guy Wetmore Carryl
Abruptly the destroyer lurched and began to nose about toward Kashyyyk's crescent of bright side. The brain wants to complete the task it was in the middle of when the ship was shut down, Filli said. Starstone turned to him. What was the task? It thinks that the Separatists are losing Kachirho. It's converting itself into a giant bomb!
~ James Luceno
After Martha did her business and Cindy bagged
~ James Patterson
Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.
~ David Hemmings
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
~ Aldrich Ames
This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.
~ Karl Liebknecht
The new Pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
If you start focusing on the next job, then you're probably not going to do the one you have very well.
~ William H. McRaven
I'm very task-oriented. The idea of constantly pursuing something with purpose helps me to stay focused.
~ Tessa Virtue
People are extraordinarily good at ad hoc explanation. According to past research, if people are erroneously led to believe that they are either above or below average at some task, they can explain either their superior or inferior performance with little difficulty.
~ Thomas Gilovich
will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.
~ Thomas Paine
And oh, Claudia, Claudilla, ask me to do something -something that I can do. Do not ask me to forget you or to be indifferent to you. Do not ask me to have no interest in how you pass your time. But if we are separated, set me a task, something that will be a daily link with you.
~ Thornton Wilder
Train with decisiveness the task of measuring whether you can do this.
~ Thupten Jinpa
There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.
~ Viggo Mortensen
believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In fairy tales, the heroes are punished when they run away from a task. The heroes, not their younger brothers...
~ Cornelia Funke
John fand es faszinierend, dass sein ältester Sohn es sich sur Aufgabe gemacht hatte, nach der verlorenen Vergangenheit dieser Welt zu suchen, während sein Vater ihr die Zukunft brauchte.
~ Cornelia Funke