Quotes and Sayings About Tasks
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
-- Abba Eban -
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
-- Adam Savage -
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Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
-- Aimee Semple McPherson -
Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.
-- Ajahn Sumedho -
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The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.
-- Al Gore -
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
-- Alain de Botton -
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
-- Alain de Botton -
Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
-- Alan Alda -
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We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
-- Alan AutrySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God.
-- Alan Redpath -
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
-- Albert BanduraSource : Albert Bandura (1997). “Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies”, p.11, Cambridge University Press
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We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
-- Albert Camus -
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The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
-- Albert Camus -
Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature
-- Albert Einstein -
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending task which requires not only competence but also spiritual discernment. Yet this is precisely the task which we must assume, even at the risk of being vague on specifics. The alternative is to compromise basic themes of authentic Christianity.
-- Albert M. Wolters -
Is it our task to force the biblical doctrine of God to answer to modern culture, or (is it our task) to address modern culture with the biblical doctrine of God? If modern culture-or any culture-establishes the baseline for the doctrine of God, such a doctrine will certainly bear little resemblance to the God of the Bible.
-- Albert Mohler -
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The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.
-- Alberto VilloldoSource : FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Nov 05, 2013
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Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history, to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
-- Aldo LeopoldSource : Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.548, Library of America
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The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
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If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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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 -
Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
-- Aldrich AmesSource : Letter from his cell at the Allenwood Federal Penitentiary to Stephen Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, November 2000; cited on the FAS website. Ames, you see, was not at fault; it was those who trusted him.
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There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.
-- Alexander MeiklejohnSource : Alexander Meiklejohn (2005). “Education Between Two Worlds”, p.17, Transaction Publishers
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
-- Alexander PopeSource : Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.381
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If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.
-- Alfie Kohn -
The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.
-- Alistair Begg