The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.
It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche.
Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.
There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life
Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.
It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed.
Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.
Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.
We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.
What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing. . . But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?
Juggling is an illusion. . . . In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. . . . It is actually task switching.
As people do a task, they improve at it.
We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.
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