#task

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task. ↗

— Sophocles

#doing #doing good #glorious #good #good deeds

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune. ↗

— Sophocles

#good #good man #help #man #misfortune

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#difficult #equilibrium #establishing #identity #intellectuals

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#daily #demoralized #developed #education #else

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#asleep #been #catalog #common #emotional

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. ↗

— Rudolf Virchow

#consciousness #knowable #limits #out #science

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#adulthood #disadvantaged #force #house #one-quarter

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#find #form #mess #now #task

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ↗

— John Buchan

#elicit #greatness #humanity #into #leadership

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#been #get #his #leader #people