#task

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.' ↗

— Quincy Jones

#daddy #day #done #every #every day

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 is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#arena #bodies #clearly #commit #enough

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer. ↗

— Nusrat F. A. Khan

#difficult task #father #great #i #just

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

As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans. ↗

— Ron Kind

#co-chair #congressional #force #founder #future

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back. ↗

— Eli Whitney

#back #fear #given #go #greater

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

It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children. ↗

— Neil Kurshan

#children #exasperating #experience #frustrating #human