Best tasks & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.”

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.”

People Ifs Men Want Should Mean Ends Shows Values Decision Economics Tasks Ultimate Aim Chosen Judgement Definite Scope Theoretical Attainment Valuation

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.”

World Want Needs Children Ends Hard Interest Teaching Demand Tasks Rewards Satisfaction Accomplish Endeavor Meaningless Irrelevant Incentives Attending Libel

Author:Frank Smith

“We all like to look forward to things. Incentivize yourself with a reward—a massage, dinner with a friend, a night watching your favorite show, a yoga class on Saturday morning. Visualizing a reward at the end of the to-do tunnel may help with reaching goals/completing tasks.”

Looks May Ends Helping Shows Night Goal Class Morning Yoga Tasks Rewards Dinner Reaching Saturday Tunnels Massage Your Favorite Completing Visualizing Saturday Morning Reaching Goals

Author:Samantha Ettus

“It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.”

Inspirational Mean Art Ends Moving Artist Literature Speak Goal Roles Mankind Reader Tasks Ridiculous Irony Pathetic Specialists Carried Away Pathos

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.”

Thinking Long I Can Ends Done Helping Running Moving Order Lost Known Listening Goes On Losing Tasks Forgotten Accomplish Help Me Labour Long Runs Neglected Console Getting Lost

Book:The Unnamable

Source: The Unnamable

“I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.”

Ends Tasks My Time

Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.”

Mean Ends Names Language Understanding Tasks Instruments Heal Cherish Precision Stewards Using Words

Book:Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

Source: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

“But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.”

I Can Ends Done Running Earth Moon Tasks Green Corners Bows Soar Green Earth

Author:John Milton

“A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.”

Men World Needs May Ends Study Bed Prove Tasks Busy Yesterday Contemplating Confession Autobiography Masterpiece Impatient Prove It Unfinished Morrow True Man Death Bed Unfinished Work

Book:The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land

“Work is a means; it is not an end. And for any tasks that can be performed or eliminated by a capital instrument, human labor is not the best means... Furthermore, we have science, engineering and management - the three disciplines - that really plan and control the production of goods and services, trying to eliminate labor. Who the hell is government to come along and try to create labor? The people who are producing wealth are trying to eliminate toil, while the politicians are trying to create it.”

“He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.”

World Ends Action Loses Trouble Journey Truth Is Tasks Consistent Sincere Sincerity Words And Actions

Author:John Tillotson

“The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.”

“The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.”

Source: Letters and Speeches

“The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right.”

Mind Firsts Humans Heart Ends Use Life Is Human Beings Simple Changed Lessons Tasks Court Human Life Affected Ruling

Author:David Souter

“I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges.”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Ends Sometimes Problem Faces Order Challenges Tasks Endure Accomplish Priorities Temptation Overwhelmed Problems And Challenges

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to see me in a theater and they want to have their picture taken with me, it's not the end of the world. It's one of those things, where I'm not the only comic who does it. A lot of comics do it. If I'm doing a 4,000-seat venue, it might be a little bit of a different task, but it's all good.”

People Ifs World Want Trying Kind Mean Littles Doe Different Ends Might Bits Taken Comedy Little Bit Tasks Theater Comic Seats End Of The World Venues Picture Taken

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.”

People Want Littles Doe Ends Names Progress Information Like You Percent Tasks Boxes Bars Checks Linkedin

Author:Jesse Schell

“If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.”

Ifs Men World Mind May Ends Government Moving Law Common Fashion Produce Lessons Tasks Essence Bases Educational Secure Sufficient Interpretation Righteousness Cooperation World Government

Author:H. G. Wells

“Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be able to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved.”

Men Should Made Ends Might Able Desire Class Security Men And Women Tasks Saved Trials Preserves Degradation Chastity Luxurious Seclusion

Author:Madeleine Albright

“Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.”

Knows Men May Mean Ends Law He Man Judging Genius Tasks Sole Hazards Remakes Above The Law

Author:Honore de Balzac

“We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.”

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

“There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.”

Ends Done Political Purpose Easy Source Activity Tasks Remains Affair Corruption Corporate Corporations Principal Public Service Expenditures Easy Tasks

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“Social Security should be phased out and ended altogether. ... Social Security in any form is morally irredeemable. We should be debating, not how to save Social Security, but how to end it - how to phase it out so as to best protect both the rights of those who have paid into it, and those who are forced to pay for it today. This will be a painful task. But it will make possible a world in which Americans enjoy far greater freedom to secure their own futures.”

World Should Ends Today Form Social Enjoy Pay Greater Rights Security Protect Tasks Paid Painful Secure Phases Social Security

Author:Alex Epstein

“The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and he begins to ask: What am I? What is the task of man in this wonderful universe? Do we merely live here for ourselves, or is there something more for us to do? Why do we struggle and fight? What is good and evil? Where will it all end?”

Men Children Made Ends Law Fighting Universe Evil Asks Interesting Struggle Wonderful Tasks Good And Evil Governing

Book:To Educate the Human Potential

Source: To Educate the Human Potential

“In anything I do I try to stay true to myself because I think that's what matters most, and then the challenge is getting all these different sides of my personality to fit together in one box. It isn't an easy task. But that's basically what the end result represents.”

Thinking Trying Different Ends Matter Together Easy Sides Challenges Results Personality Fit Tasks Boxes What Matters Stay True End Results Different Sides True To Myself Easy Tasks

Author:G-Eazy

“At the end of the day, the task I have is just like anyone else, to prove myself through my product or work. I've really found this to be true, the name advantage is a zero sum gain.”

Ends Found Names Products Prove Gains Advantage Tasks Being True The End Of The Day Zero Prove Myself

Author:James Redford

“In order to put an end to the occupation, you must make peace between the Israeli and Palestinian people. This is the real aim, this is the real task.”

People Real Ends Order Tasks Aim Occupation Palestinian Israeli Making Peace

Author:Uri Avnery

“If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.”

“According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”

Kind Stills Ends Sometimes Moments Happens Life Is Next Speak Generations Broken Birth Tasks Lifetime Metaphor Profession Wounds Holes Divides Next Generation Fixing Unfinished Shiva

Author:Abraham Verghese

“For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If all we want are jobs, we can create any number--for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. Our real objective is not just jobs but productive jobs--jobs that will mean more goods and services to consume.”

Source: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

“It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.”

Ifs Men Children Important Ends Home Lasts Lines Enemy Periods Tradition Tasks Decided Defeat Bent Council Defence Physical Strength

Book:The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Source: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

“But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.”

Knows Giving Believe Ends Passion Dark Doubt Tasks Series Dear Believe In God Episodes Fulfilled Witchcraft

Book:Other Voices, Other Rooms

Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms

“I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past I offer no apology only this plea: When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt That I might keep some child warm And some old person with no one else to talk to Will hear my whispers And cuddle near”

Children Persons I Can Ends Might Past Grows Memories Gone Cutting Please Offers Tasks Warm Squares Apology Balanced Quilts Old Person Drizzle

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Two War Ends Eye Young Easy Water Too Much Doors Conversation Mouths Tasks Decided Smell Saved Young Man Boxing Scream Hunts Discussing Boxing Matches

Book:City of Thieves: A Novel

Source: City of Thieves: A Novel

“It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again. On that night in the park, they begin the delicate task of binding their souls together, creating a whole comprising their separate halves.”

Soul Ends Whole Moments Together Night Half Kissing Creating Tasks Breaths Parks Delicate Interrupted Binding Kissing Him

Book:The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

Source: The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

“If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.”

Ifs Writing Ends Difficult Tasks Revision Difficult Tasks

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind.”

“I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.”

Men War Ends Speak Peace Realizing Tasks Pursuit Rational Dramatic Urgent Being At Peace Make Peace Not War

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.”

Thinking Littles Ends Spiritual Spirituality Amount Tasks Overcoming Difficulty Sufficient Accomplished Elbows

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater.”

Ends Order Greater Violence Tasks Meetings Track Wheels Cycles Right Track Cycle Of Violence

Author:Hosni Mubarak

“In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.”

Men Ends Humor Light Running Funny Remember Asks Trouble Groups Drink Humorous Tasks Wine Drinking Complexes Alcohol Beer Cigarette Liquor Filters Beer Drinking

Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

“When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?”

Men Has Beens Made Ends Facts Past Science Universe History Development Tasks Accounts Missions Cease Phenomenon Phases Examination Past Life Classification

Book:The Grammar of Science

Source: The Grammar of Science

“Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.”

World Firsts Ends Suffering Fighting Sin This World Tasks Trials Temptation Midst Persevere Something Better Dissatisfied Trials And Temptations

Author:Saint Augustine

“The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, a deep content, another friend.”

Years May Littles Book Ends Done Dream Care Joy Friendship Written Pages Tasks New Year New Day Another Year Dispelling

Author:Arch Ward

“The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.”

“It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.”

“All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.”

Source: Autobiography

“Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever. And I will carry this. It is the police shield of a man named George Howard who died at the World Trade Center trying to save others. It was given to me by his mom, Arlene, as a proud memorial to her son. It is my reminder of lives that ended and a task that does not end.”

Men World Trying Doe Ends Stories Remember Faces Given Voice Memories Gone Forever Fire Son Mom Proud Tasks Died Police Trade Rescue Reminders Memorial Shields World Trade World Trade Center

Author:George W. Bush

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