#task

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

— Ovid

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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. ↗

— Alan Paton

#free man #give #man #reforming #responsibility

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#avoid #confidence #desire #experimental #goes

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane. ↗

— Richard Perle

#assign #commander #computer #could #done

Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can. ↗

— John Phillips

#hold #just #michelle #out #roll

There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove. ↗

— Mark Pincus

#built #comfort #companies #full #given

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

#contemporary #contemporary life #describe #facts #find

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. ↗

— Craig Raine

#artist #been #discover #done #simple

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#american women #committed #could #died #end

Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#focus #hand #i #just #move