Quotes by Tasks That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself. Soren Kierkegaard how-to-lovegenerationstasks The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia authorities face the complicated task of stabilising and reviving a devastated economy after years of regional conflicts, international isolation and economic mismanagement. Stanley Fischer yugoslaviatasksyears The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I. Soren Kierkegaard analogiestaskschristian The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems. Stanley Kunitz taskswritingfirsts I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks. Steffi Graf taskspast Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes. Stephen L. Richards debttaskshome The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task. Steve Eisman profitequaltasks Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it Steve Pavlina stresstasksbelieve People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page. Steve Jobs marketingtaskspeople When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the story takes a turn that you don't expect ... With me that happens a lot because I don't outline, I just have a vague notion. So it's always felt like less of a made thing and more of a found thing. That's exciting. That's a thrill. Stephen King taskswritingcharacter The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions. Steven Pinker psychologytasksnumbers There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done. Susan Cheever tasksnumbersbook Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame. Susan Cain wealthfocustasks What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent. Susan Cain tasksmistakelooks Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs. Sun Tzu troopsdesigntasks Casting is 50% of your task. If you cast well, you're halfway through. Susan Seidelman castingcaststasks To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. Susan Sontag slaverytaskswriting If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society - it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there. Susan Sontag secular-societytasksart One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional, the arts gravitate toward contrariness. Literature is dialogue: responsiveness. Literature might be described as the history of human responsiveness to what is alive and what is moribund as cultures evolve and interact with one another. Susan Sontag taskscultureart It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation. T. E. Lawrence our-generationtasksair«4445464748495051525354»
