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Task Quotes

If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.

Moment Me Book Someone Task Take

I was the second oldest of seven children, and chores were a way of life for us. If your task wasn't completed, you were called right back to finish it.

Life Children You Back Way Task

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.

Nicholson Baker

Research Library Become Task Big

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.

John Stuart Blackie

Power Sweet Task Within Bless Plot

The FBI has built up substantial expertise to address cyber threats, both in the homeland and overseas. Here at home, the FBI serves as the executive agent for the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF), which joins together 19 intelligence, law enforcement, and military agencies to coordinate cyber threat investigations.

Home Together Intelligence Law Task

The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.

Mother Wife Career Professional Task

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

Human Task Up Population Still Like

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Love Yourself You Find Task Within

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Edsger Dijkstra

Humility Clever Size Task Skull Own

Getting the book published and the movie made was not an easy task. But it helped. Because even though it's a difficult life to explain, I lived it.

Life Book Easy Difficult Task Lived

Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.

Eyes Coffee Person Robot Hard Task

For inexperienced, small developers, getting funding from big game publishers can be a Sisyphean task.

Small Game Task Big Developers

I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.

Best Task Well Still Tried I Tried

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.

Life Decision Animal End Task Take

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Achievement Worth Difficult Task

Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Life Easy Test Real Task Begin

Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.

Alone Great Losing Others Two Task

When we first met, I was probably six layers down in the military structure, but General McChrystal at that time was a soldier's leader, and he was part of the task force. So everyone developed close relationships.

Leader Time Down Relationships Task

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Impossible You Difficult Task Fail

In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.

Chuck Palahniuk

Family Together People Way Task Sit

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Business History Will Possible Task

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Architecture Aesthetic Possible Task

I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.

Mountain Reading Blind Doing Task

The presidency of the Euro group is an interesting and important task.

Wolfgang Schauble

Interesting Important Group Task

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