| "People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful." »Unknown |
| "For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task" »Rainer Maria Rilke |
| "Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled." »Willie Stone |
| "Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it." »Joyce |
| "Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed." »Maria Montessori |
| "And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'." »Phoebe Cary |
| "Man's main task is to give birth to himself." »Erich Fromm |
| "The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be." »Og Mandino |
| "The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "A man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good." »Samuel Johnson |
| "The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them." »Rudolf Virchow |
| "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." »Erich Fromm |
| "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." »Alexander Pope |
| "The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity." »Maria Montessori |
| "Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best." »Theodore Isaac Rubin |
| "I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind." »Robert Millikan |
| "To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." »Winston Churchill |
| "Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you." »Alfred Victor Vigny |
| "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality." »Erich Fromm |
| "It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place." »Orison Swett Marden |
| "To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously." »Paul Wiener |
| "Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done." »Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs |
| "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." »Victor Hugo |
| "The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies." »John Dryden |
| "To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man." »Alan Stewart Paton |
| "A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation." »Unknown |
| "The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self-educating man." »C. Wright Mills |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
