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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.
I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.
We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's fault.
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.
Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge
When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.
One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.
Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
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.
The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"
Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
Every task is given equal importance - that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow of my creative metabolism.
Part of the value of TASK is not to invest into anything permanent; to really celebrate the moment-the fluidity of creative action.
It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.
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.
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.
A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.
Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks.
A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.
Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.
One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.
The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.
In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.
The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.
A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.
The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.
Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.
Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.
Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.
Regrettably, to deactivate an entire cartel also proved to be a difficult task for my father and with all the enemies he had, even more.