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

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
George W. Bush

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Arthur Henderson

They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.
Mark Ruffalo

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.
Fredrik Bajer

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.
Karl Liebknecht

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?
Elliot Richardson

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
Felix Mendelssohn

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
Maria Montessori

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
Sarah Bernhardt

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

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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