#task

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#arched #area #becomes #compute #crop

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

#artist #awaken #considers #control #craft

My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself. ↗

— Trevor Huddleston

#brother #christ #even #everywhere #himself

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#continually #extract #hardest #ill #inexhaustible

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#classified #except #explained #language #light

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. ↗

— Carl Jung

#conscious #contents #man #press #task

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#ask #asking #athlete #body #different

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#being #commensurate #exactly #fact #gives

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. ↗

— Yousuf Karsh

#every man #hidden #i #i can #man

I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#energy #great #i #me #tasks