task Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about task.
“Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.”
- Carl Clinton Van Doren
“It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.”
- Colton, Charles C.
“Art is the proper task of life.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.”
- Sophocles
“If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.”
- Arne Jacobsen
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
- Victor Hugo
“All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.”
- Donald Knuth
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
- William James
“Art is the proper task of life.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche