Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass. . . if we do not take [tasks] one at a time and let them pass. . . slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own. . . structure.
What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. It’s about showing that you’re willing to accept them for whatever they are, that they should not feel insecure or self-conscious in your presence, which can be a hard task to achieve.
The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.
Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.
Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.
I thought Brittany Packnett, who was one of the Ferguson activists, really interesting, smart young lady, really impressive - you might want to talk with her. So she was one of the organizers of the Ferguson movement, ended up joining our task force. She came in here and she just knew her stuff.
We face such a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while.
I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.
I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.
God has given believers the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to all the world, and we need to use all at our disposal to accomplish this task.
Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple. . . It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.