I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer

When thou dost put thy mind unto the task, Thou mayst accomplish nearly anything.

The writer’s task is to reveal the hidden connections between people and the world, to uncover the universal in the particular.

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

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast – is choice.

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It’s not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It’s more than a hobby.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

There is but one task for all — One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall?” [For All We Have and Are]

Art is the proper task of life.

I’m a utility infielder. There’s always somebody who is better at a specific task than I am, but I can pitch in at a bunch of different things as needed.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people

In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love

I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

And just as he who unwills what he wills and shifts what he intends to seek new ends so that he’s drawn from what he had begun, so was I in the midst of that dark land, because, with all my thinking, I annulled the task I had so quickly undertaken.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

One does not “manage” people. The task is to lead people.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system’s weaknesses irrelevant.

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

I’m dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It’s just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don’t have time for these clowns.

No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.

It was a silly notion: the whole thing has been a bore.

Picking the right leader is the most important task of every commander.

Where your fear is, there is your task

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.

It has been a woman’s task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

Lastly, we can learn to have faith in ourselves and our creative abilities, no matter how difficult the task may seem.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.

To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart – that’s what life is all about, that’s its task

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

I really do live for the future, because when I’m eating a box of candy, I can’t wait to taste the last piece. I don’t even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away and not have it on my mind any more

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Democracy encourages the taste for physical gratification

The most decided men of character are often those whose inferiority in talent prevents them from being self-confident

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take – and sometimes tea

To give preference to the life of the intellect is to prefer a pattern of existence which, however imperious it may seem, is felt to be optional. The life of the intellect is a life that one can live or not live. It is, potentially, a life in which one can withdraw from the task of living

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee, they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense

Every tale is not to be believed

I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Perhaps Jesus is asking of you a little task, and, if you find it, later He will ask of you something that is greater. Always keep your eyes open for the little task, because it is the little task which is important to Jesus Christ. The future of the Kingdom of God does not depend on the enthusiasm of this or that powerful person; those great ones are necessary too, but it is equally necessary to have a great number of little people who will do a little thing in the service of Christ.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing

I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one love

Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.