Tasks Quotes
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The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.
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Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
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Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
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To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.
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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
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The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.
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Denying self isn't a one-time thing, but a daily task.
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.
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I thought Brittany Packnett, who was one of the Ferguson activists, really interesting, smart young lady, really impressive - you might want to talk with her. So she was one of the organizers of the Ferguson movement, ended up joining our task force. She came in here and she just knew her stuff.
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Vision is about more than just getting things done, accomplishing some task, achieving something; it is about discovering and expanding our view of others, affirming them, believing in them, and helping them discover and realize the potential within them-helping them find their own voice.
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Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
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Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.
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Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
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It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.
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Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.
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Some things are better done than described.
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Systemicity is imposed as a set of rules binding the parts among themselves. But these rules do not constrain the parts to act in one way and one way only; they merely prescribe that certain types of functions are carried out in certain sequences. The parts have options; as long as a sufficient number of sufficiently qualified units carry out the prescribed tasks, the requirements of systemic determination are met.
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I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat ... where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I am sure, has experienced in his heart [the joy of] the task entrusted to him [and] felt as rich as a king.
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The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.
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There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
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Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.
