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“I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.”

Giving Trying Years Whole Moments Plans Minutes Rocks Ten Hundred Tasks Busy Fancy Idleness Comes And Goes Trifles Whim

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Divine is the task to relieve pain”

Pain Divine Tasks

Author:Hippocrates

“I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.”

Ifs Giving Feels Doe Faces Humanity Order Risk Events Offers Mass Tasks Confusion Helpless Optimist Small Things Pessimist Uncontrollable

Author:Bernard Malamud

“The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision.”

Facts Moving Lying Purpose Certain Individual Vision Events Fields Mass Training Tasks Importance Propaganda Etc

Book:Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated

Source: Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated

“The meaning of self-esteem is to feel lovable and capable. As parents, we must love our children unconditionally and give them a sense of being nurtured. That's the lovable part. Then, we must provide structure - rules, boundaries, daily or weekly household tasks that give them a sense they are making a contribution. That's what helps kids grow up feeling capable.”

Giving Feels Children Self Helping Feelings Kids Grows Parent Growing Up Self Esteem Capable Tasks Our Children Structure Boundaries Esteem Contribution Household Lovable Love Our Children

Author:Jack Canfield

“There's been a lot of talk about body cameras as a silver bullet or a solution. I think the task force concluded that there is a role for technology to play in building additional trust and accountability, but it's not a panacea, it has to be embedded in a broader change in culture and a legal framework that ensures that people's privacy is respected and that not only police officers but the community themselves feel comfortable with how technologies are being used.”

“The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.”

Youth Tasks Salvation Rebel

Book:The second twenty years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a record of a growing world consciousness

Source: The second twenty years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a record of a growing world consciousness

“Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.”

Children Home Air Cost Essentials Tasks Various Breathe Expected Household Attending Rearing A Child

Book:Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today

Source: Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today

“I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.”

Ifs Feels Poetry Left Tasks Critics Poetry Is Criticize

Author:Margaret Atwood

“While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.”

Source: The judgment of history

“The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous burden on the nation for "rearmament" and "defense", in order to create inextinguishable debt, simultaneously creating a military dictatorship and enslaving the people to pay the "interest" on the debt which the bankers have artificially created.”

“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”

Knows Men Littles Liberty Imagine Economic Design Economics Tasks Libertarian Curious Economist Central Planning Mixed Economy

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.”

Moving Pieces Demand Tasks Chess Checks Reaching Faculty Salary Impatient Waiter Contemplative Pastries

Book:Chips Off the Old Benchley

Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley

“A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.”

Has Beens Tasks Remains

Author:Madeleine Albright

“Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.”

Ifs Way Looks Has Beens Pain Suffering Compassion Our Lives Sorrow Essentials Findings Tasks Mercy Caught Honestly Exile Wrongdoing

Book:Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

“At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.”

World Love Humans Heart Ideas Hurt Goodness Tasks Confusion Layers Shed Mistaken Human Heart

Author:Sue Thoele

“...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.”

Light Death Dies Chance Darkness Tasks Overwhelming Chances Are

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.”

People Men World Years Has Beens Helping Today Past Situation Destiny Achieve Limits Happenings Tasks Essence Socialism Explicit

Author:Martin Heidegger

“One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.”

Ideas Difficult Tasks Good Ideas Difficult Tasks

Author:Andy Stanley

“It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.”

Men Real Lasts Battle Tasks Workers Developing Limitation Analysis Courageous Applause Co Worker Real Courage

Author:Alice Foote MacDougall

“Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.”

“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.”

Knows Earth Universe Stars Animal Know How Movement Wind Mountain Messages Rivers Tasks Originals Environmental Forgotten Clouds Woods Violent Jungle Stewardship Uprising Elevation

Author:Leonardo Boff

“Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide her... Some have attempted to help her but most have simply tried to use her. Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her with no consideration, other than their immediate needs. And they give little thought for their own children who will inherit their lack of love. So they use her and abuse her with little consideration and then when she shudders of blows her breath. They are offended and raise their fist at God.”

“The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?”

“I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing commanded, maybe it's the first thing forgotten. But it is the first admonition and it is absolutely unequivocal. It is part of right livelihood.”

Thinking Firsts Care Given Fronts Garden Tasks Environmental Forgotten Stewardship Livelihood Admonition Unequivocal

Author:Wes Jackson

“Time Management Tips: One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon to identify time and task challenges while these are still manageable and while we still have a choice. The organizational adage, "the more parts, the more trouble," also applies to words. Multiplying words may actually multiply the probability of being misunderstood; economies in expression (without being taciturn or aloof) not only save time, but usually are more honest and more clear.”

“We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.”

Past Childhood Personality Tasks Unfortunate Cultivation

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.”

Mean Night Order Passion Hard Work Findings Tasks Importance Harder Executives Weekend Really Mean Work Harder

Author:John Hagel

“...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.”

Moving Tasks Moving Forward Slides Insisting

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible.”

Way Ideas Games Challenges Brain Particular Broken Tasks Down And Structure Rewards Video Spokes Engaging Broken Down

Author:Tom Chatfield

“I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.”

Thinking Writing Done Feelings School Remember Three Term Paper Pages Tasks Accomplishment Term Paper

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“No task is too big or too small for God. He cares for us. He wants the best for us. More importantly He just wants us to include Him in our lives by trusting in Him.”

Want Bigs Care Our Lives Tasks Live By Want U

Author:Dan Ellis

“After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts to breed by itself; the process goes on solely in the mind, not on paper. I feel a kind of gentle development, an uncurling inside, and I know that the details are there already, that in fact I would see them plainly if I looked closer, but I prefer to wait until what is loosely called inspiration has completed the task for me.”

Ifs Knows Feels Writing Mind Firsts Kind Facts Inspiration Waiting Process Novel Goes On Development Paper Tasks Details Recognition Gentle Shock

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.”

Tasks Jew Primaries Turbulent Times

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Good teams focus on the task at hand. They don't care what's happened the last 13 days, they worry about today and they worry about getting better. That's what good teams do.”

Hands Care Today Lasts Worry Focus Happened Team Tasks Don't Care Get Better Good Team Task At Hand

Author:Mike Zimmer

“If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.”

Ifs Today Nations My Own Class Impossible Members Tasks India Slavery Slave

Book:Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation

Source: Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation

“This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.”

Wealth Tasks Mad Mere Cease Labour Assured Drudgery Living Wage Labourers Daily Tasks

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.”

Ifs Doe Today Depends Tasks Jail Prisoner

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.”

Literature Tasks Thirds More Time

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“Luckily for me, I became a rap star so I'm making enough money to support my family. It's funny because that may seem like the only way that I can do such a task.”

Way May I Can Enough Seems Stars Can Do Support Tasks My Family Rap

Author:Joey Badass

“Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.”

“Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if it means they make a mess of your kitchen or living room. It's all about your perspective on these things. Let them play. When you do, the kids do not have to be reintroduced to ways of questioning nature, and the task of promoting science would be a trivial exercise.”

Ifs World Way Mean Children Play Would Be Kids Natural Rooms Perspective Exercise Tasks Obvious Mess Kitchen Questioning Promoting Living Room

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.”

“It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.”

Trying Crazy Healthy Tasks Healthy Fear

Author:Francis Chan

“I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.”

Thinking Needs Desire Tasks Impulse Superstitious

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.”

“Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently”

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks”

People Ifs Self Hard Easy Difficult Effort Conditions Masters Hard Work Lows Tasks Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Tasks Easy Tasks Minimal Effort

Author:Albert Bandura

“Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy”

Self Given Levels Amount Tasks Sufficient Threatening Efficacy Self Efficacy Arousal Perceived Self

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts”

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