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“Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.”

Trying Easy Responsibility Tasks Good Day Bad Day Parental Juggling Easy Tasks

Author:Ali Landry

“Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.”

People Persons Political Easy Religious Brain Opinion Share Influence Tasks Everyday Deeper Senses Sense Of Humor Rooted Closest Best Friend Factions Closest Friends Political Opinions

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.”

Easy Danger Please Benefits Tasks Difficulty Vulgar

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.”

May Evil Easy Natural Ambition Consequence Tasks Discouraging Inconvenience Pernicious Proficiency Natural Consequences Easy Tasks

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.”

Easy Tasks Supreme Easy Tasks

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.”

Art Easy Deals Practice Study Painting Tasks Intelligence Analysis Practice Makes Perfect Easy Tasks

Author:Edgar Alwin Payne

“A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.”

Art Easy Masters Tasks Accomplish Discrimination Cynicism Rail Formidable

Book:The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales

Source: The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales

“It is not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, laid back, mellow, uplifting, or a guarantee of Peace of mind. It requires openness, vulnerability, courage and work. It gives no answers, only tasks to be done and questions to consider....It functions in those deeper ways of knowing which our culture has denied and for which we hunger.”

“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.”

Ifs May Fall Easy Difficult Cases Confidence Achievement Tasks Have Confidence Belief In Self Dismay Dismayed Easy Tasks

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.”

Easy Difficult Tasks Host Guests Hospitality Difficult Tasks Hostesses

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.”

Should Wells Said Wisdom Asks Easy Doors Dying Mouths Tasks Golden Streams Prophet Bores Supplies

Book:The Poems

Source: The Poems

“We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.”

God Christian Religion Causes Easy Religious Answers Wonder Christianity Lord Knowledge Mystery Objects Tasks Christian Inspirational Questioning Bishops Easy Answers

Book:The Orthodox Way

Source: The Orthodox Way

“The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.”

Source: Letters and Speeches

“Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)”

Political Easy Difficult Grace Fate Tasks Accomplish God's Grace Without God Easy Tasks

Author:Chanakya

“WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but also that which is apprehended by the soul, the conviction that the object [of belief] is exactly as it is apprehended. If, as regards real or supposed truths, you content yourself with giving utterance to them in words, without apprehending them or believing in them, especially if you do not seek real truth, you have a very easy task as, in fact, you will find many ignorant people professing articles of faith without connecting any idea with them.”

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.”

Source: Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958

“Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user's task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large.”

Ifs Should May Helping Used Easy Steps Information Tasks Focused Lists Users Concrete Documentation

Book:Usability Engineering

Source: Usability Engineering

“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

“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

“Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.”

“motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.”

Ifs Hard Motivation Easy Involved Highest Percent Tasks Probability Get Involved

Book:Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

Source: Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

“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

“The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.”

Way Lying Night Easy Views Hell Sky Return Labor Tasks Gates Smooth Cheerful Descent Auras Gates Of Hell

Book:The Aeneid:

Source: The Aeneid:

“But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.”

“Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.”

Thinking Dream Earth Easy Perfect Blood Poet Revolution Tasks Humble Lovely Bitter Acquaintance Involving Down To Earth Filth Disillusioned Tiresome

Author:Lu Xun

“Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.”

Long Night Heaven Easy Dark Hell Path Doors Air Sweet Tasks Investing Burden All Night Descent Hades

Author:Virgil

“It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.”

Ifs Easy Company Building Tasks Window Motorcycle Bikers Easy Tasks Hiccups

Author:Robert Evans

“The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release all tendencies toward victimhood, stagnation, passivity, and self-destruction that keep us disempowered or cause frustration and suffering to ourselves and others. This is no easy task, and one in which we can use all the divine support possible to help us on our way. It is a time to pray.”

“It is always easy to shine in the dark mud! Choose the difficult task: Amongst the pearls under the sun, try to shine more than them!”

Trying Easy Difficult Dark Sun Tasks Shining Pearls Mud Difficult Tasks

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task.”

Government Easy Security Duty Tasks Guarantees Maximum Easy Tasks

Author:Yitzhak Rabin

“The second challenge is to make sure that, growing up in this culture, they have a healthy view of life and God and Scripture. So, that's my other challenge. So, finding that balance is certainly no easy task but it can be very fulfilling. So, that's part of what we talk about in this book.”

Book Culture Easy Challenges Views Growing Up Growing Balance Healthy Findings Tasks Scripture Fulfilling Easy Tasks

Author:Alex Kendrick

“What we want to do is make sure they're not totally kept from what's going on in the world. We don't want to seclude them but, at the same time, we want them to have wisdom and discernment to make wise decisions - to protect them through the love of the family and the value that we have in one another and in the Lord and our time in Scripture. Finding that balance is not an easy task but it can be done.”

World Want Done Values Easy Decision Lord Wise Balance Protect Findings Tasks Scripture Our Time Discernment Wise Decision Easy Tasks

Author:Alex Kendrick

“O, do not pray for easy lives.”

Source: Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series

“It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.”

Done Evil Left Easy Conflict Tasks Overcoming Injustice Bitter Legacy Hostility Mistrust Easy Tasks Overcoming Evil

Author:Pope Francis

“There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.”

Ends Done Political Purpose Easy Source Activity Tasks Remains Affair Corruption Corporate Corporations Principal Public Service Expenditures Easy Tasks

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.”

Mean Children Young Easy Education Teach Tasks Gentle Babe Easy Tasks

Author:William Shakespeare

“All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It's in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it's no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.”

“In anything I do I try to stay true to myself because I think that's what matters most, and then the challenge is getting all these different sides of my personality to fit together in one box. It isn't an easy task. But that's basically what the end result represents.”

Thinking Trying Different Ends Matter Together Easy Sides Challenges Results Personality Fit Tasks Boxes What Matters Stay True End Results Different Sides True To Myself Easy Tasks

Author:G-Eazy

“I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving.”

“I have to say what I do is not easy and there are definitely moments where I feel inadequate to the tasks I've set for myself. And that's hard to feel - like you're giving your life to something and you can't really do it as well as you want to do it.”

Want Giving Feels Wells Hard Moments Easy Like You Tasks Inadequate

Author:Joan Osborne

“I think it's not an easy task because there's not enough Latino writers that are being given opportunities to write things - and I say this because I've been given a lot of bilingual movies in the past because of my career in Mexico, and they're like, "Oh, it's going to make sense for her to do this." A lot of studios want to hit that demographic, but they sort of do it without starting in the right way, which is having someone who knows the culture, and enjoys the language as well, to be able to write these things.”

“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

“Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.”

People Years Moving Easy Change Tasks Easy Tasks

Author:Alana Stewart

“In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.”

Humans Facts Easy Numbers Growing Industry Internet Tasks Police China Locals Pursue Data Firm Allowing Profitable Surveillance Presenting Format

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”

Source: The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

“Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.”

Made Easy Interest Situation Seeing Mankind Easier Despair Tasks Difficulty Moved Genuine Accomplished Embarrassing

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim. The reality check comes when Christlike attributes need to become visible in our lives—as husband or wife, as father or mother, as son or daughter, in our friendships, in our employment, in our business, and in our recreation. We can recognize our growth, as can those around us, as we gradually increase our capacity to 'act in all holiness before [Him]' (D&C 43:9).”

“That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Two War Ends Eye Young Easy Water Too Much Doors Conversation Mouths Tasks Decided Smell Saved Young Man Boxing Scream Hunts Discussing Boxing Matches

Book:City of Thieves: A Novel

Source: City of Thieves: A Novel

“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