Daunting Tasks Quotes:

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

- Phillips Brooks

source: Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

topic: Life, Men, Miracle, Praying To God, I Pray

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Perspective, Intellectual, Faces, Daunting Tasks

A daily creative project is like a marathon. It's a ridiculously daunting task, but making an original creation every day gives you an incredible sense of accomplishment. It also forces you to push beyond your mental and physical barriers (especially the ones you've erected for yourself). You'll be amazed at what you produce and what you learn about yourself in the process.

- Noah Scalin

source: Noah Scalin (2016). “365 Expanded Edition: A Daily Creativity Journal”, p.3, Voyageur Press (MN)

topic: Creativity, Giving, Accomplishment, Sense Of Accomplishment, Daunting Tasks

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Knowing, Starting Over, Tasks, Daunting Tasks

Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again.

- Andy Weir

topic: Moving, Technology, Agency, Space Flight, Daunting Tasks

Despite their rising international acclaim, Sachal Studios remains virtually unknown in Pakistan. The ensemble is faced with a daunting task: to reclaim and reinvigorate an art that has lost its space in Pakistan's narrowing cultural sphere.

- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Daunting Tasks, Acclaim

The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in the game are. But understanding the rules is just a trivial preliminary on the long route from being a novice to being a grand master. So even if we understand all the laws of physics, then exploring their consequences in the everyday world where complex structures can exist is a far more daunting task, and that's an inexhaustible one I'm sure.

- Martin Rees

topic: Moving, Law, Games, Daunting Tasks, Laws Of Physics

I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn't seem like such a daunting task anymore.

- Hoda Kotb

source: "5 Minutes with Hoda Kotb". Interview by Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 12, 2010.

topic: Cancer, Thinking, Boss, Daunting Tasks, Breast Cancer Inspiration

As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.

- Olivia Goldsmith

source: Olivia Goldsmith (2014). “The Bestseller”, p.146, Diversion Books

topic: Writing, Tasks, Wheat, Daunting Tasks

In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate authority. . . . In Scott's incisive blend of art history, sociology, and sports writing, he makes a daring and original statement about fighters and the artists who enshrined them.

- Robert Anasi

topic: Sports, Art, Writing, Groundwork, Daunting Tasks

Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.

- Daniel Goleman

topic: Teacher, Children, School, Daunting Tasks, Emotional Literacy