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“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

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Author:Vince Lombardi

“Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.”

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Author:Adolf Loos

“My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.”

Book Attention Draws Tasks Wander Covered Ink

Author:Pierre Loti

“Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.”

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Book:The Gospel of John

Source: The Gospel of John

“I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.”

Mean Effort Tasks Lazy

Author:Thomas Lynch

“Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.”

Form Memories Brain Tasks Connections Instruments Muscles Rehearsing Muscle Memory Imagining Yourself

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.”

Inspirational May Matter Inspiration Motivational Tasks No Matter What Parenting Expected Extra Mile Going The Extra Mile

Book:The Greatest Miracle in the World

Source: The Greatest Miracle in the World

“Be larger than your task.”

Fear Courage Confidence Tasks

Book:Exceptional Employee

Source: Exceptional Employee

“If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Feels Found Fun Work Growing Tasks Perpetual

Book:The Young Man Entering Business

Source: The Young Man Entering Business

“Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.”

Way Common Effort Tasks Excellence Uncommon

Author:Orison Swett Marden

“Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.”

Force Sea Tasks Missions Islands January Task Forces

Author:Jack Adams

“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”

Long Age Funny Time Youth Ready Tasks Aging Old Age Old People Elders Elderly Youth And Old Age

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.”

May Play Together Angel Tasks Praise Praise God

Book:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Source: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.”

Politician Tasks Forests Farms Carbon Tricky Calculating

Author:Donella Meadows

“Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.”

May Country Earth Music Is Tasks Towns Blessed Carrie Far Away Smallest Shallow Worldly Gift From God Absorbing Worldly Things

Author:Felix Mendelssohn

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”

Art Inspiration Practice Stones Tasks Block Sculpture Statues Sculptors

Author:Michelangelo

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”

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Author:Maria Montessori

“The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.”

Children Doe Lying Evil Seeing Activity Tasks Educator Montessori Good Against Evil

Book:The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method

Source: The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method

“To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.”

Tasks Leaving Aids Educator Montessori

Author:Maria Montessori

“If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.”

Ifs Helping Education Movement Tasks Educational Helpful Spontaneous Arbitrary Spontaneity Unfolding Imposition Montessori Life Unfolding

Book:The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method

Source: The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”

World Life Reality Life Is Fantasy Illusion Tasks Fantasy Worlds Beirut Fantasy Life

Author:Iris Murdoch

“Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.”

Men Mind Believe Made I Believe Waste Computer Conscious Tasks Currents Wasting Time Analogies

Book:The View From Nowhere

Source: The View From Nowhere

“Art is the proper task of life.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”

Problem Values Tasks Determine Philosopher Solve Obligation Hierarchy

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”

Ifs Love Joy Peace Morning Sun Fire Bird Tasks Window Coffee Rays Leafs Good Morning Fire Escapes

Author:Anais Nin

“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.”

May Persons Matter Problem Seems Time Learning Tasks Bottom Do The Best Unimportant

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.”

Trying Years Two Problem Lasts Economy Figures Capitalism Tasks Addresses Two Years Google Bleeding

Author:Barack Obama

“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”

Form Artist Tasks Chaos Mess Accommodate Waiting For Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.”

Ifs Want Needs Running Jobs Effort Ocean Rain Tasks Clean Intention Very Good Worthy Accomplish Forests Serenity Good Job Dolphins Best Intentions

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'”

Giving Two Brain Impossible Baby Program Tasks Males Motherhood Dry Software Cleaning Downloads Dry Cleaning

Author:Allison Pearson

“The new Pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.”

Knows Men World Light Christ Men And Women Tasks Shining Pope Light Of Christ

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!”

Hard Language Tasks Originals Tension Appearing Translators

Author:Manuel Puig

“The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.”

Life Is Lord Tasks

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.”

Way Matter Government Tasks No Matter What Expensive Incompetent

Author:Charley Reese

“Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.”

People Thinking Want Trying Hands Moving Focus Tasks Task At Hand

Author:Jeremy Renner

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.”

People Two Friendship Marriage Relationship Solitude Protect Highest Tasks Ties

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.”

Soul Actors Minutes Tasks Finished Resumes Good Actors

Book:The Art of the Theatre

Source: The Art of the Theatre

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

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Author:Theodore Isaac Rubin

“It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.”

Mistake Tasks Critical Making Mistakes Principal Correcting

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.”

Ifs Two President Tasks Confused

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.”

People Want Trying Wells Happens Weapons Mass Gun Tasks Destruction Smoking Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Dots

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.”

Country Exercise Tasks Defense Chiefs Department Secretary Civilians Commanders Commander In Chief Admiral

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.”

Ifs Knows Enough Whole Deals Poverty Failing Land Disease Tasks Neighbor Being True Nevertheless Ugliness Whole Truth

Book:It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays

Source: It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

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Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.”

May Helping Bigs Force Ignorance Projects Tasks Depth Lists Lions Organize Whips Constituents

Author:Adam Savage

“Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.”

People Needs Literature Individual Projects Tasks Manage

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.”

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.”

Way Believe Two I Believe Understood Tasks

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.”

People Feels Literature Tasks Multitasking Interrupting Multi Tasking

Author:Marilyn vos Savant