Top 1200 Task Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.
When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task.
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization.
It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.
If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.
Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.
In a lot of ways, the task at hand for any poem is to approach something that defies exactness or definition with a kind of exactness or precision.
There is a stillness in all of us that is really the essence of who we are. A stillness and a silence that doesn't move, that doesn't go anywhere and our task is to experience that while being in time.
We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government.
In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.
Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.
Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task
No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.
If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.
The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.
Regardless of how little time and work someone takes to perform a task, there has to be a more efficient and effective way to perform it.
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.
What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.
The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.
It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.
One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.
When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.
When the media goes state and becomes nothing more than an echo chamber for the government, the task of sharing truth falls to the original keepers of liberty: the American people.
Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.
When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not only useful, but priceless.
In order to put an end to the occupation, you must make peace between the Israeli and Palestinian people. This is the real aim, this is the real task.
Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.
As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.
I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future.
Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.
In between training sessions, I'll often watch DVDs of King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, just to keep my mind on the task in hand and remind myself of the magnitude of the challenge.
In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.
As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best people working for you.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion
Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?
Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.
Doing background score for a film is not an easy task. It requires constant and deep learning and it is the only way to create a score with finesse.
The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.
You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.
Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you're cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.
It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.
Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a task itself.
Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.
The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
