The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.
The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely
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.
Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.
He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.
Our task is to accept each moment and move on from there, continuing to do our level best.
Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
The task is not done. The journey is not complete. We can and we must do more.
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention. . . It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.
The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.
After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.
The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by sometimes taking ourselves to task. When the self says, 'O no, I must not be treated like this,' then we say, 'What does it matter?' When the self says, 'He ought to have done this, she ought to have said that,' we say, 'What does it matter, either this way or that way? Every person is what he is; you cannot change him, but you can change yourself. ' That is the crushing. . . . It is only in this way that we can crush our ego.
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant