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“A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.”

Men Moments Responsibility Duty Integrity Essentials Tasks Assuming Suspects Man Of Integrity

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.”

Years Persons Answers Atheism Years Ago Tasks Positive Atheism Ignorant

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.”

People Humans Soul Care Spirit Nations Responsibility Accepting Tasks Paid Leaving Human Spirit Bureaucrats

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.”

Hard Strong Easy Leader Achieve Hard Work Tasks Productive Framework

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.”

Thinking Facts Ability Tasks Gym Consumption Rats Alcoholics Degrading Gym Rats

Author:Clay Shirky

“On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.”

“Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”

Thinking Life Littles Done Able Building Tasks Manage Thoughtful Privacy Ruling Props Hoarding

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Frankly, the president, during the first opportunity I had to be in a Cabinet meeting, before we started the meeting, he said, Folks, before we begin this meeting, I'm going to call on General Ashcroft and ask him invite the wisdom and presence of God in what we do. And I thought to myself how ashamed I'd been that so many times in my life I had entered upon great important tasks and I had cheated myself and those that I had served of a blessing.”

Firsts Said Important Asks Opportunity President Blessing Tasks Meetings Folks Scary Ashamed Invites Cabinets Cheated Presence Of God

Author:John Ashcroft

“We really have no choice but to pray and encourage a return to an America steeped in Judeo-Christian values. It is either that or taking our chances in a society with no values at all. For all Americans the former carries certain risks, but the latter spells certain doom. For now, we should not be deflected by theological debate from the life-saving tasks awaiting us. There is work to be done. We must ensure that America will continue to be part of God's plan for the world.”

Source: America's Real War

“Everybody has to share something. This is one of the most important laws of the human condition, is the necessity to share. This is the task of the writer - but not only of a writer, of every human being - it is to share something that he or she has.”

Humans Important Law Human Beings Share Conditions Tasks Human Condition

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.”

Thinking Want Looks Art Film Situation Industry Reflection Tasks Aim Entertainment Artistic Dramatic Affected Entertainment Industry

Author:Michael Haneke

“I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.”

Knows Trying Stills I Can Matter Hard Hard Work Proud Tasks No Matter What Crafts Get Better

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I think directing yourself is a monumental task. Just to self edit as an actor, you work for some directors who don't give you a lot of feedback so you have to do that. That's a difficult thing to do as an actor.”

Thinking Giving Self Actors Difficult Directors Tasks Things To Do Feedback Difficult Things Edits

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.”

Ideas Artist Culture Tasks Philosophical Fundamentals Saint Philosopher Productions

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.”

People Talent Tasks

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding . . . . Just this once I wanted to let it rip.”

Ifs Long Enough Wanted Joy Strong Fire Tasks Rip

Book:The Annie Dillard reader

Source: The Annie Dillard reader

“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; And in himself posses his own desire”

“The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.”

Ifs World Earth Tasks

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when the world seems to keep on turning without them. In business, a man can come nearest to indispensability by being dispensable in his current job. How can a man move up to new responsibilities if he is the only one able to handle his present tasks? It matters not how small or large the job you now have, if you have trained no one to do it as well, you're not available; you've made your promotion difficult if not impossible.”

“Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.”

Mean Wisdom Knowledge Technology Tasks Practicals Organized Application Systematic Science And Technology Knowledge Wisdom

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.”

People Ifs Levels Money Mystery Subjects Talent Particular Lows Economics Tasks Profession Manage Imperfect Protected Evident Low Level

Book:Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

“We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.”

Men Want Accepting Democracy Conditions Honest Tasks Brave Determined Citizenship Honest Man Gift From God Brave Man Reservations No Reservations

Author:A. Philip Randolph

“Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of science has all the science before him to go upon, to set himself up in business with. What an enormous sum Darwin availed himself of and reinvested! Not so in literature; to every poet, to every artist, it is still the first day of creation, so far as the essentials of his task are concerned. Literature is not so much a fund to be reinvested as it is a crop to be ever new-grown.”

Men Firsts Art Stills Science Artist Literature Creation Poet Essentials Concerned Tasks Every Man Enormous Fund Crops

Book:The writings of John Burroughs

Source: The writings of John Burroughs

“More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining notonly in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.”

Source: The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928

“We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.”

Important America Faces Faith Nations Ability United States Confidence Tasks Have Faith Restoring

Author:Jimmy Carter

“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.”

Men World Humans Term Beauty Tasks New World Comprehension

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.”

Enough Age Moving Passion Audience Easier Taste Tasks Good Enough Satisfying Polished

Author:Horace Walpole

“To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.”

Men May Universe Answers Wise Calling Tasks Endure Oneself Solve Intellect Hardest Witness

Book:Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

“The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.”

Life May Important Hours Effort Sacrifice Demand Tasks Difficulty Calm Extremes Endless Realization Budgets Arranging

Book:How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

“If we dedicate ourselves over and over again to the goal of climbing one peak to the next...resisting the urge to become discouraged by the task-every one of us can become a high achiever.”

Ifs Next Goal Tasks Urges Climbing Discouraged Resisting Achiever

Author:John R Noe

“A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.”

Way Use Light Failing Tasks Smell Transformed Ignored

Author:Knut Hamsun

“On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either of mind or body. This circumstance vanishes and becomes absolutely insignificant, on the religious theory: The one sex has an equal task to perform as the other: Their powers of reason and resolution ought also to have been equal, and both of them infinitely greater than at present.”

Source: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)

“I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.”

Knows Happens Comedy Greatness Tasks Convinced Chosen Providence

Book:The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

“Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.”

Results Goes On Tasks Leaving Fulfilling

Author:F.B. Meyer

“If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God.”

Ifs Amount Tasks Sleeves

Author:Alistair Begg

“Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.”

Tasks Metaphysics Empiricism

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“I live for those who love me, Whose hearts are kind and true; For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too; For all human ties that bind me, For the task by God assigned me, For the bright hopes yet to find me, And the good that I can do.”

Life Humans Heart Kind I Can Spirit Hope Heaven Can Do Goodness Tasks Ties Find Me Ties That Bind

Author:George Linnaeus Banks

“The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?”

Way Soul Done Today Winning Goal Doubt Failing Havens Tasks Dare Strikes Worthwhile Crew Flocks Quails

Author:Edgar Guest

“I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the ' wall of separation,' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.”

Thinking Christian Found Religious Wall Areas Tasks Constitution Court Metaphor Separation Phrases Invocation

Author:Potter Stewart

“[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!”

Humans Heart Hard Use Values Names Speak Language Friendship Knowing Doubt Friends Creatures Tasks Assuming Pity Surround Suspicion Maxims Use Of Language

Author:Sarah Fielding

“Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task.... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.”

Writing Mind Humans Certain Order Reader Limits Tasks Lays Assuming Human Mind Labyrinth Recess

Book:The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia

Source: The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia

“I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles - that's when I felt good, normal, balanced.”

Heart Energy Felt Impossible My Heart Normal Percent Tasks Intense Muscles Balanced Acid Sizzling Lactic Acid

Book:The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

Source: The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”

People Giving Should Ideas Political Politics Interest Research Tasks Stress Practicals Carrie Spells License Implications Academia Misuse Fray Vested Interests Scholarly Ideologues

Author:Stephanie Coontz

“Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by them. So we are told to stop, to shut off lines of inquiry, not to find things puzzling nor to seek explanations. This is intellectual suicide.”

Problem Lines Intellectual Tasks Philosophical Suicide Philosopher Cures Analysis Explanation Inquiry Therapists Puzzling Bewitched

Book:Essays in Quasi-Realism

Source: Essays in Quasi-Realism

“We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.”

Wells Bits Sea Grew Grew Up Tasks Philosophical Philosopher Stuck Ships Conclusion Evolve Leap Schemes Mariners

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either”

Able Action Choices Names Challenges Produce Creating Tasks Heavy Egypt Magician Frogs Spurs Heathen Free Choice Taunting Lice

Book:Luther and Erasmus: free will and salvation

Source: Luther and Erasmus: free will and salvation

“It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his creatures, that their personalities clearly and organically unfold before the eyes of the audience so that the latter feel that the actions of these people are contingent upon their characters, that there exists some kind of a logical fate, and that nothing is left to mere accident or coincidence.”

People Giving Feels Kind Littles Character Eye Action Left Audience Pieces Fate Personality Creatures Tasks Mere Insight Accidents Characteristics Latter Logical Coincidence

Author:Ernst Lubitsch

“The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.”

Source: Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (From the Former Clinic of Child Development, School of Medicine at Yale University)

“The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.”