“You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. ”
Like I
“Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless.”
Yoda
“Certainly she hasn't announced yet, and she's probably not decided yet, either. The immediate task for her supporters here is to win re-election. That's what everyone is focused on.”
Bruce Cohen
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
Mark Twain
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
C.S. Lewis
“The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.”
Buddha
“The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
Erich Fromm