Plato Quotes
Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
Plato
Quotes to Explore
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You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
Adam Pascal
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We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.
J. William Fulbright
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Here was my city, immense, overpowering, flooded with energy and light... The world, at that moment , opened before me, challenging me, beckoning me, demanding something of me that it would take more than a lifetime to give, but raising all my energies by its own vivid promise to a higher pitch.
Lewis Mumford
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Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.
Douglas Coupland
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When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
Idries Shah
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Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.
Buzz Aldrin
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When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis - the thought doesn't occur to him that 'There is someone better than me,' or 'There is someone equal to me,' or 'There is someone worse than me.'
Gautama Buddha
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The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.
Arthur Schnitzler
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They were accustomed to think of the Abbé as one of those men who pass rapidly from point to point, from task to task, so intent on redeeming the time because the days are evil that they have no leisure to pause and enquire if perhaps the bad days have a few good points about them after all.
Elizabeth Goudge
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The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
Christine de Pizan
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Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
Wayne Rogers
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Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
Plato
