“We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character... We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.” WayIdeasCharacterUseRealityLanguageLosesDependsMessagesTasksStriveCommunicateObjectivesDescriptionScopeDiscernmentOur WordsSuspended Author:Niels Bohr
“Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task.” MindHas BeensPastGamesMessagesTasksIntelligentSubtleOccupationCensorshipSlipping Book:Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship Source: Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship
“To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.” ProblemFacesAudienceSeriousDirectorsMessagesProgramTasksSmooth Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild
“The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and elevation of the mountains, by the animals, the woods and jungles, and by the rivers. Our task is to know how to listen and interpret the messages that are sent to us. The original peoples knew how to read every movement of the clouds, the meaning of the winds, and they knew when violent downpours were coming... We have forgotten all that.” KnowsEarthUniverseStarsAnimalKnow HowMovementWindMountainMessagesRiversTasksOriginalsEnvironmentalForgottenCloudsWoodsViolentJungleStewardshipUprisingElevation Author:Leonardo Boff
“Although the church accomplishes many tasks, its only message to the world is the gospel of Christ. Everything else we do is merely an extension of that primary goal. The gospel we offer the lost is superior to every worldly philosophy. Never outdated or in need of correction, it is always sufficient to meet humanity's greatest need: reconciliation with the Creator.” WorldNeedsPhilosophyHumanityLostGoalChristChurchOffersMessagesTasksCreatorAccomplishSuperiorsPrimariesSufficientExtensionsWorldlyReconciliationCorrectionsOutdated Author:Charles Stanley
“My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader. And so, as a reader you have a task to do in finding those bottles and opening up the messages and experiencing what's in them inside of yourself.” JobsFocusInspirePoetReaderFindingsMessagesTasksOpeningBottlesOpening Up Author:Edward Hirsch
“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world." Winston Churchill Christmas Eve Message, 1941 as printed in "In the Dark Streets Shineth.” WorldYearsChildrenPlayLyingNightTurnsFatherFunDarkPleasureSacrificeShareStreetsMessagesLaughterTasksDelightChristmasDecentDeniedDaringInheritancePrintedFormidableChristmas EveFather Christmas Author:David McCullough