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“Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a maiden in a tower—" At this the Witch spat, again rolling her marvelous eyes. "Those revolting creatures are always getting themselves locked up. If only they would stay that way.”

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable. Of course an artist can lose his way, but even his mistakes are interesting provided they are sincere. For they represent the reality of his inner life, of the peregrinations and struggle into which the external world has thrown him.”

Ifs World Way Reality Artist Courses Loses Interesting Mistake Struggle Movement Duty Directors Conflict Tasks Contradiction Thrown Sincere Acceptable Inner Life

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a sort of gas that exists when you believe in its existence and disappears when you doubt. The task of supporting it seems simple at first glance, but actually requires an ultimate refinement of calculation and a consummate skill.”

Firsts Believe Hands Seems Simple Existence Doubt Arms Skills Tasks Ultimate Disappear Gas Glances Calculations Refinement

Book:Confessions of a Mask

Source: Confessions of a Mask

“He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.”

Men Time Suffering Names Speak Simple Wise Mystery Conflict Tasks Experience Command Our Time Toil Fellowship Being Wise Ineffable

Book:The Quest of the Historical Jesus

Source: The Quest of the Historical Jesus

“It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again. On that night in the park, they begin the delicate task of binding their souls together, creating a whole comprising their separate halves.”

Soul Ends Whole Moments Together Night Half Kissing Creating Tasks Breaths Parks Delicate Interrupted Binding Kissing Him

Book:The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

Source: The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

“There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”

“When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women of your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.”

Way Writing Long Stills Light Hair Survival Tasks Unity Fingers Metaphor Heavy Slips Thick Diverse Soup Attempting Simile Handful Fables Strands Coarse Unruly Diction Braids

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man's heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.”

Men Wells Heart Use Might Would Be Next Water Prayer Attention Arms Weapons Tasks Essence Accidents Lust Superiors Warrior Touched Wavering Might Use

Book:The Dovekeepers: A Novel

Source: The Dovekeepers: A Novel

“People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.”

“All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.”

Writing Process Fiction Tasks Mediums Genre

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.”

Thinking Trying Persons Important Faces Creative Tasks Harder Resistance Creative Person

Author:Donald Miller

“Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.”

Self Happens Force Failing Members Tasks Contradiction Our Society Acceptable

Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.”

Capacity Tasks

Author:Andre Gide

“Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.”

Ifs Age School Choices Virtue Judging Depends Morality Behavior Tasks Empty Assuming Oneself Conventions Spontaneity Assessment Formality Decorum Insincere

Book:Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.”

Levels Attention Mass Tasks Workers Revolutionary Devoted

Book:Collected works of V. I. Lenin

Source: Collected works of V. I. Lenin

“She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.”

Heart Sometimes Beautiful Impossible Prove Perfection Tasks Ugly Setting Settings Something Beautiful Ugly Things Beautiful Inside

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.”

Inspirational Giving Difficult Inspiring Responsibility Wise Serious Tasks Charity Philanthropy Distribution Philanthropic Difficult Tasks Generosity And Giving Distribution Of Wealth Philanthropy Inspiration

Book:The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay: The Gospel of Wealth

Source: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay: The Gospel of Wealth

“Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.”

Amount Tasks Gentleman Milk Minimum Taxation Maximum Farming Discworld Dairy Vetinari

Book:Jingo: Stage Adaptation

Source: Jingo: Stage Adaptation

“He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent on the task at hand that he never looked over his shoulder, even if his cloak got caught in a thorny bush. When he did turn to speak to somebody, he used to swing his entire body and address him full face. When he shook hands, he was never the first to withdraw his own. He inspired such confidence that he was known as al-Amin, the Reliable One.”

Ifs Firsts Body Hands Faces Used Turns Speak Known Tasks Dresses Inspired Caught Shoulders Als Swings Cloaks Task At Hand

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of any state to preserve and protect its own territoriality.”

Source: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

“It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In learning, no act of teaching in any school or university compares to the routine task of mothers in teaching a babe who speaks no language the mother tongue in so short a time. No other task in education is equal to this. The moral training of the children, the discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the children which surpasses all other. The family is the first and basic school of man.”

“Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.”

Men Understood Tasks

Author:John Flanagan

“The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned.”

People Looks Has Beens Soul Feelings Problem Individual Poor Steps Rich Tasks Intelligent Sensitive Burned Observers Every Step Thoughts And Feelings

Book:Hunger

Source: Hunger

“How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted, was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate, unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did.”

Ifs Men Long Light Lying Evil Stars Cases Tasks Ships Remembered Trusted Shed Inadequate Navigate

Author:Jeet Thayil

“That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.”

Results Failing Achieve Tasks Intelligent Propaganda

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.”

May Hands Grace Fate Tasks Dear Saving Free Will Saving Grace Task At Hand

Book:Witchling: An Otherworld Novel

Source: Witchling: An Otherworld Novel

“It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he felt himself to be a squat, oily, sweating, uneducated nurt whose stomach rattled and whose breath wheezed. Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately doomed. Seeing her face, he discovered that his own consisted of a garish mask; noticing her body made him feel like a low-class wind-up toy.”

Source: Ubik

“If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.”

Ifs Writing Ends Difficult Tasks Revision Difficult Tasks

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind.”

“Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.”

Giving Giving Up Tasks Not Giving Up Pointless

Author:Megan Hart

“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”

Ifs Hands Tasks Loving Hands

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“I could see how easy it would be to fall into loving Bella. It would be exactly like falling: effortless. Not letting myself love her was the opposite of falling—it was pulling myself up a cliff-face, hand over hand, the task as grueling as if I had no more than mortal strength.”

Ifs Hands Would Be Faces Fall Easy Tasks Opposites Mortals Pulling Cliffs Effortless

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned our steps west, toward the last hope for Salvation.”

Earth Lasts Steps Four Impossible Tasks Salvation Lays West

Book:Outpost

Source: Outpost

“She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.”

Easy Tasks Easy Tasks

Book:Every Day

Source: Every Day

“If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe...they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that repect.”

People Ifs Should Believe Kind Mean Ideas Class Special Intellectual Tasks Population Secular Imposing Priesthood Mean People

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.”

Earth Language Heaven Stars Taught Tasks

Book:Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems

Source: Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems

“The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.”

Ifs Way Soul Self Able Artist Found Journey Mankind Tasks Rome Selected

Author:Terence McKenna

“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age”

Men Age Science Difficult Tasks One Man Conjecture Absolute Certainty

Author:Isaac Newton

“So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!”

Should Children Problem Happens Easy Growth Tasks Praise Deny Math Apologizing Growth Mindset I Apologize Wasting Your Time Math Problems

Book:Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Source: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.”

People Interest Poor Subjects Tasks Tyrants Daily Tasks

Author:Aristotle

“Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.”

Years Long Hands Eye Earth Girl Left Four Red Tasks Green Dancing Wounds Four Years Pennies Indestructible Slippers Wreckage Green Eyes Long Road

Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.”

Writing Feelings Light White Doubt One Thing Pages Tasks Empty Absence Novelists Void Blank When In Doubt Blank Pages White Light

Author:Philip Sington

“Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.”

Generations Tasks Embrace Providence

Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir

Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir

“Sing to me," she said. "That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be useful as well. Sing to me, sing loudly-drown out my dreams, keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it. Sing to me, my lord prince, if it please you. It may not seem a hero's task, but I would be glad of it.”

Ifs Want Wells May Said Dream Seems Would Be Remember Voice Dark Lord Hero Please Tasks Lonely Raises Glad Want Me Valiant Lonely Places Raise Your Voice

Book:A fine and private place: The last unicorn

Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn

“For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.”

Easy Freedom Practice Willing Tasks Instruments Perceive Propaganda Mechanism Urgent Indoctrination Brainwashing Media Propaganda War Propaganda

Author:Noam Chomsky

“When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?”

“Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.”

People Feels Difficult Tasks Convinced

Author:Alain de Botton

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