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“If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.”

Ifs Hard Jobs Benefits Tasks Noble Karma Motive Good Job

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.”

Hard Facts Impossible Terrible Solitude Tasks Better Off Fathom Better Off Alone

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.”

Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

“It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.”

World Want Needs Children Ends Hard Interest Teaching Demand Tasks Rewards Satisfaction Accomplish Endeavor Meaningless Irrelevant Incentives Attending Libel

Author:Frank Smith

“What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. It’s about showing that you’re willing to accept them for whatever they are, that they should not feel insecure or self-conscious in your presence, which can be a hard task to achieve.”

Ifs Feels Should Self Hard States Accepting Achieve Worst Willing Conscious Tasks Good Things Opening Vulnerable Insecure Self Conscious Your Presence

Author:Esther Earl

“More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.”

“The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.”

Mind Hard Helping Past Produce Mines Poet Materials Expectations Tasks Bases Saved Anticipation Clue Generator

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Be brief, be pointed, let your matter standLucid in order, solid and at hand;Spend not your words on trifles but condense;Strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense;Press to close with vigor, once begun,And leave, (how hard the task!) leave off, when done.”

Matter Hard Done Hands Order Mass Tasks Presses Strikes Trifles Vigor

Book:Life and Letters of Joseph Story: Edited by his son William W. Story. (Mit 1 Porträt.)

Source: Life and Letters of Joseph Story: Edited by his son William W. Story. (Mit 1 Porträt.)