#task

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#attitudes #change #changing #complex #cultural

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#consequence #function #masterpiece #other #produce

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure. ↗

— George Crumb

#future #i #into #more #nonetheless

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#called #chips #computers #crazy #different

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. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#chance #earn #great #greater #main

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

#avoids #aware #clever #competent #full

God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of. ↗

— Faye Dunaway

#easy #fantastic #god #god bless #got

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that. ↗

— Jared Leto

#concentrate #disorder #front #given #i

So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#fulfilling #iraq #our #possibilities #preventing

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#been #continent #dedicated #every #far