Task
Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
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Task Quotations
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
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
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mahatma Gandhi
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi
My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.
Barack Obama
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
Task Translations
task in Afrikaans is taak
task in Danish is opgave
task in Dutch is karwei, klus, opgave, taak
task in German is Task, Aufgabe {f}, Aufgabe {f}, Schularbeit {f}
task in Italian is lavoro, occupare, quesito
task in Latin is negotium
task in Portuguese is tarefa
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