The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
Henry Moore

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
Donald Rumsfeld

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
Roman Jakobson

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.
Arthur Middleton

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
Alfred North Whitehead

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
Thomas Mann

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
John Cheever

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Theodor Adorno

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

The task of organized religion is not to prove that God was in the 1st century, but that he is in the 20th.
S. H. Miller

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.
Wilhelm Wundt

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

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
Craig Raine

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori

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

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
Emile M. Cioran

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.
Ernst Mach

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Manuel Puig