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“Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.”

Firsts States United United States Policy Tasks Let Me Threat Foreign Policy American Foreign Policy

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.”

Way Firsts Left Knowledge Tasks Dues Broke Successors

Book:Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Source: Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.”

World Firsts Looks Art Happens Earth Suffering Steps Creativity Tasks Creator First Steps Kinder God Image

Author:Elizabeth O'Connor

“During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.”

Ifs Knows Way Mind Firsts Able Science Purpose Half Knowledge Century Tasks Details Accomplished Devoted Doubtful Generalization Scientific Knowledge Juncture

Author:Hermann von Helmholtz

“We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.”

Ifs Way Firsts Persons Long Self Effort Impossible Development Demand Tasks Importance Strive Intensity Self Knowledge Self Development Seriousness Trifles Old Ways

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.”

Firsts May Made Important Faces Common New York Red Tasks Democratic Wave Hearing Common Sense Welcome Flags Speakers Abyss Red Flags Subpoenas

Author:Charles Schumer

“...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”

Firsts War Peace Tasks Corporations Anti War Conspiracy Antiwar Alliances Political Power State Government Statesmanship

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.”

Firsts Mean Order House Nations Resources Tasks Fundamentals Conservative Conservation

Book:Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: Presidential addresses and state papers

“The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"”

Firsts Buddhism Tasks Asking Questioning Introspection Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.”

“Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.”

Firsts Humans Long Ideas Hands Lasts Values Common Issues Resources Advantage Tasks Common Sense Endeavor Capitalist Multitudes Long Life Idealist Devotee Firsts And Lasts

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.”

Men Firsts Soul Whole Secret Principles He Man Tasks Drudgery

Book:ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...

Source: ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...

“The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.”

World Mind Firsts Humans Long Faces Law Existence Steps Conditions Return Ideals Tasks Responsible Patient Calm Recognition First Steps Rule Of Law Human Existence Frame Of Mind

Author:Margaret Mead

“Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task.”

Firsts Facts Understanding Buddhism Tasks Grateful Western Contribution Zen Buddhism

Book:An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.”

“Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful”

Ifs Firsts Wells Long Self Universe Belief Causes Secret Successful Authority Tasks Constitution Secret To Success Self Trust

Book:The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.”

Men Firsts Acceptance Ideals Labor Tasks Critics Urges Display

Book:Poets of America

Source: Poets of America

“It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.”

Trying Firsts Shows Running Challenges Stage Music Is Tasks Notes Focused Routine Kansas

Author:Phil Ehart

“My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less.”

Giving Firsts I Can Can Do Tasks Making Money

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.”

Ifs Feels Writing Firsts Book Running Steps Flower Determination Garden Tasks Clean Plant Perseverance Holes Defeated Shelves Closets Marathon One Word Spades One Step At A Time

Author:Jeanne Marie Laskas

“My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.”

Firsts Earth Difficult Written Journey Return Moon Tasks Disappointment Biographies Difficult Tasks

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.”

Firsts Humans Given Difficult Economic Development Models First Time Tasks Climate Change Global Warming Human History Economic Development Difficult Tasks

Author:Christiana Figueres

“The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right.”

Mind Firsts Humans Heart Ends Use Life Is Human Beings Simple Changed Lessons Tasks Court Human Life Affected Ruling

Author:David Souter

“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

“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

“I am no preacher of the old legal Sabbath. I am a preacher of the gospel. The Sabbath of the Jew is to him a task; the Lord's Day of the Christian, the first day of the week, is to him a joy, a day of rest, of peace, and of thanksgiving. And if you Christian men can earnestly drive away all distractions, so that you can really rest today, it will be good for your bodies, good for your souls, good mentally, good spiritually, good temporally, and good eternally.”

Ifs Men Firsts Soul Body Today Christian Joy Lord Week Tasks Jew Be Good Your Body Your Soul Good Man Distraction Preacher Sabbath Days Of The Week Day Of Rest

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true.”

Firsts May Truth Tasks Being True Great Work

Author:Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

“At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and the availability of the parents for attachment are primary. During the second and third years, stimulation of language development is critical. During the years prior to school entrance, information that persuades children they are loved becomes critical, and during the school years it is important for children to believe that they can succeed at the tasks they want to master.”

“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.”

“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

“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

“As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.”

People Ifs Firsts Long Important Morning Goes On Internet Tasks Tired Phones Evening Afternoon Email Phone Calls

Author:Brian Tracy

“I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I value my time. I work smarter by valuing my time and doing the things that can't be done without me while hiring a great team around me to do the rest of the things.”

Trying Firsts Important Done Lasts Values Waiting Team Minutes Tasks My Time Smarter Urgent Hiring Great Team Last Minute

Author:Jeet Banerjee

“This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.”

Ifs Firsts Children Jobs Powerful Tasks Our Children Caring Judged

Author:Barack Obama

“I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.”

Knows Way Writing Firsts Periods Discovery Tasks Surprise Inquiry Clay Sculptors

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you have a heightened emotional sensitivity and you have the ability to listen to multiple conversations at one time and multi-task.”

Way Firsts Ability Emotional Conversation Tasks Incredibles Assets One Time Multiple Sensitivity Documentaries Intimidating Being A Woman

Author:Ondi Timoner

“The first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking things. Basically eliminating things, the biggest task of an editor is to simplify, simplify, simplify and that usually means omitting things.”

Firsts Mean Doe Red Tasks Online Pens Editors Simplify Eliminating Omitting

Author:Keith Rabois

“Read Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Then do what it says, including the tasks you think are impossible. You will particularly hate the advice to write first thing in the morning, but if you can manage it, it might well be the best thing you ever do for yourself. This book is about becoming a writer from the inside out. Many later advice manuals derive from it. You don't really need any others, though if you want to boost your confidence, "how to" books seldom do any harm. You can kick-start a whole book with some little writing exercise.”

“I found a lot of stuff that's never been seen before. That was the goal: to not use cliché Cold War footage but give people a sense of the place and setting. It's a field you still need. At first it was a lot of fun, and then later it became a little bit intimidating. "Oh my God, I've got so much footage. Where am I going to put it? What am I going to do?" I ended up really only reviewing about 20 to 30 percent of what I had. So it was a task.”

People Needs Giving Firsts Littles Stills War Use Found Fun Stuff Bits Goal Fields Cold Little Bit Percent Tasks Setting Settings Cold War Intimidating

Author:Gabe Polsky

“Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic.”

World Writing Firsts Book Might Games Magic Reader Creating Tasks Logic Boundaries Dragons Writing A Book Disbelief

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.”

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

“A couple's first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too.”

Ifs Firsts Problem Couple Tasks Difficulty Solve Breakfast

Author:Julian Barnes

“The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.”

People Trying Firsts Believe Creativity Creative Teaching Fields Tasks Nurture

Book:Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

Source: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

“The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.”

Ifs Firsts Leader Vision Tasks Organization

Author:Rick Warren

“There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.”

People Ifs Firsts Done Bigs Seems Would Be Jobs Difficult Wonder Impossible Tasks Down And Islands Sat Contemplating Bugs

Book:Selected papers

Source: Selected papers

“Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.”

People Firsts Today Past Poverty Century Capable Tasks India Twenties Meetings Burden Legacy Aspiration Rising Threshold

Book:Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985

Source: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985

“Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.”

Needs Firsts Children Whole Faces Careers Achieve Century Balance Tasks Twenties Our Children Educate

Author:Ken Robinson

“No matter the organization, the goal, or the mission, you've got to do it through people. It's been that way for me since my first command. I work to understand the people, their views and needs, and how tasks are being carried out.That interaction might cause me to modify my guidance or the way I delegate. It also affords me an opportunity to learn what goals people have and how as their boss I can facilitate their future in ways that not only help them, but also help the ship or the organization.”

“A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.”

Way Firsts Given Figures Smart Tasks Machines Worth It

Book:The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

Source: The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

“Jesus Christ, as the first-fruit of the Kingdom, began the work of conquering death on an individual basis, but we, as His church, will be the ones to complete the task. Jesus said (Matthew 28:18), "all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth," and the church today has that same power. Death will not be conquered by Jesus returning to earth. It will be conquered when the church stands up boldly and says, "We have dominion over the earth."”

Firsts Said Today Earth Jesus Individual Given Heaven Christ Church Jesus Christ Tasks Bases Fruit Kingdoms Conquer Dominion Matthew Church Today

Author:Earl Paulk