The enormityofthetask†[was] just a bit lessformidable than that described in the first chapter of Genesis.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
  Of postwar restructuring. Present at the Creation.

You can't beat the market because it's smarter than you are. Intellectually, the only task is trying to determine what the market is telling you.

-Bartley, Robert Leroy
  The Seven FatYears, ch.3.

My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feelöit is, before all, to make you see.Thatöand no more, and it is everything.

-Korzeniowski
  The Nigger of the Narcissus, preface.

Women have but one task, that of crowning the winner with garlands.

-Coubertin, Pierre de, Baron
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

You who desired so muchöin vain to askö Yet fed your hunger like an endless task, Dared dignify the labor, bless the questö Achieved that stillness ultimately best, Being, of all, least sought for: Emily, hear!

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  'To Emily Dickinson', in The Nation, 29  Jun.

The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art† The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

-Dewey,John
  Art as Experience.

My thoughtless youth was winged with vain desires, My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Followed false lights; and when their glimpse was gone My pride struck out new sparkles of her own† Good life be now my task: my doubts are done; (What more could fright my faith thanThree in One?)

-Dryden,John
  The Hind and the Panther, pt.1, l.71^6.

Le bonheur de l'homme n'est pas dans la liberte¤  , mais dans l'acceptation d'un devoir. Man'shappiness doesnot come from freedom but inthe acceptance of a task.

-Gide, Andre¤   Paul Guillaume
   Journal entry, 8 Feb. English actor and producer. A leading Shakespearean actor, he appeared  in  many  films,  notably  as  Cassius  in  Julius  Caesar (1952) and in Prospero's Books (1991).

'No love,'quoth he,'but vanity, sets love a task like that.'

-Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh
  'The Glove and the Lions'.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,14  Jul. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  A  Tract on Monetary Reform.

There is but one task for allö For each one life to give. What stands if freedom fall? Who dies if England live?

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'For  All We Have and  Are'.

   What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

-Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl
  Speech at  Wolverhampton, Nov, at the end of  World War I.

Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  'The VillageBlacksmith', stanza 7. Collected in Ballads and other Poems (1841).

   Spider, spider, spin Your register and let me sleep a little, Not now in order to end but to begin The task begun so often.

-MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis
  Autumn Journal, part 2.

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.

-Milton,John
  Comus,  A Mask, l.1011^16.

   To be weak is miserable Doing or suffering, but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.157^60.

When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of [the] universe, every phase of present or past lifetherein, has been examined, classified, and coordinatedwith the rest, thenthemissionof sciencewill be completed.What isthisbut saying thatthetaskof science canneverend till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?

-Pearson, Karl
  The Grammar of Science, pt.1, ch.5.

Observation is always selective. It needs a chosen object, a definite task, an interest, a point of view, a problem.

-Popper, Sir Karl Raimund
  Conjectures and Refutations (published1963), ch.1.

I have never been able to decide whether, in mountain exploration, it is the prospect of tackling an unsolved problem, or the performance of the task itself, or the retrospective enjoyment of successful effort, which affords the greatest amount of pleasure.

-Shipton, Eric Earle
  Nanda Devi.