Quotes of: Task Keyword

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

The Lost Symbol

Through the act of getting married, one has taken on the task of mutual confrontation until death.

Marriage: Dead or Alive

speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.

Surfacing

Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few." -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.

Small and Simple Things

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

By simply braking down the task into more manageable pieces much can be accomplished in a year.

Take Stress from Chaos to Calm

Doubt is unacceptable and should not enter you; it is merely evil trying to divert you and increase the difficulty of your task

Peter: A Darkened Fairytale

We are being prepared daily for a greater task. Every training should be passionately pursued.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks.

The Red Badge of Courage

The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

Felix Dennis

Know when to email vs. when to meet. Logistics are best handled over a non-immediate communication channel like email or Asana tasks. Detailed status meetings will suck the life out of your day.

Justin Rosenstein

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Og Mandino

As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.

Otto Wallach

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

Ruben Hinojosa

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

Roman Jakobson

I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered in whatever my task is, which is being an actor.

Ray McKinnon

Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.

Kristina McMorris

To swim against waves is always an impossible task, but if you manage to do you will reach the shore where nobody even thought of. - Dr. Karan M Pai

Dr Karan M Pai

What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.

Mary Tyler Moore

The Kabbalists say that the holy one of the universe is broken, and that we are extensions of the holy one and carry that brokenness inside of us. Our task is to fix our brokenness and hence the brokenness of the holy one.

Rebecca Pidgeon