Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.
I believe in fierce love, pushing the edge, calling the robbers, the corporates, the elites, the pillagers and insanely wealthy to task, going whatever distance we need to go now to protect our earth and each other.
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that's underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.
Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.
My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves out to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness.
You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of the rich ore of personal discovery. Explore yourself! There is power in you - the power to change yourself and to change the world; the power to create plans, projects, movements for the common good; the power to inspire and serve.
When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the. . . for the task you're trying to solve.
Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as well as new international modes of politics to fight them. Social movements must move outside of national boundaries and join with others across the globe to fight the savagery of neoliberal global politics and central to such a task is the work of intellectuals, artists, cultural workers, and others who can fashion new tools and social movements in the fight against the current anti-democratic threats being imposed all over the globe.
Panic, not the task, is the enemy.
He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.
[My approach to the Bible, history does really matter. ] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether there were two Isaiahs or one is less important than the text itself. Of course I read the arguments for and against. But it's not my task in life to say there were two or three authors of Isaiah's book, or how many authors there were of Deuteronomy. This is not what I'm doing.
Politics are not the task of a Christian.