#tasks

The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#altogether #cares #children #death #eleven

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#daily #dinner #enter #go #here

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

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#being #difficult #human #human being #last

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#fatal #finished #half #nothing #tasks

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#destiny #enduring #for the people #found #god

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. ↗

— Helen Keller

#accomplish #chief #duty #i #long

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. ↗

— Helen Keller

#desire #distant #door #equal #forever

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#concentrate #essential #important #most #only

Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us. ↗

— William Kunstler

#back #become #bodies #evil #forget