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“When cities were first founded, an old Egyptian scribe tells us, the mission of the founder was to 'put gods in their shrines.' The task of the coming city is not essentially different: its mission is to put the highest concerns of man at the center of all his activities.”

Men Firsts Different Cities Activity Highest Concern Tasks Missions Founders Egyptian Shrines Scribes

Author:Lewis Mumford

“There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the dominion of sin that they are under the dominion of sin. That's the task of evangelism. And [second], persuading those who are no longer under the dominion of sin that they are no longer under the dominion of sin because they're Christ's.”

Firsts Two Problem Christ Sin Tasks Encounters Evangelism Dominion Persuading

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish.”

Firsts May Tasks Dresses Cooks Strongest Select Gardener Ripe Relish

Author:Augustus William Hare

“A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.”

Thinking Firsts Would Be Study Teacher Tasks Missions Mistaken

Author:Maria Montessori

“As far as I know, Russians are the first among tourists going to Turkey; last year three million Russians visited that country, although its climate zone is almost the same as the one of the Black sea region. Therefore, we have had an important task to develop an infrastructure in this region of the Russian Federation.”

Knows Years Firsts Important Country Lasts Three Black Millions Sea Tasks Climate Zone Regions Last Year Infrastructure Turkeys Tourists Federation

Author:Vladimir Putin

“In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.”

Firsts Matter Moral Figures Ought Tasks Importance Plunge

Author:Allen W. Wood

“The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.”

People Firsts Father Poverty Millions Ignorance Disease Tasks India Independence Priorities Founding Unfinished

Author:Manmohan Singh

“I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.”

Years Firsts Culture Difficult Tasks California Welfare Immigrants Recalls Difficult Tasks New Cultures

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“If we act together along these lines, we will create conditions, the conditions for trust that Shinzō Abe speaks about, so as to take another step and conclude a peace treaty on certain terms. However, first, it is essential to cover this part of the way and then agree on the terms for signing a peace treaty. Both are challenging tasks but they are feasible.”

Ifs Way Firsts Together Certain Speak Term Challenges Lines Steps Conditions Essentials Tasks Agree Treaties Signing Abe Peace Treaties

Author:Vladimir Putin

“If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying - it more likely signifies that they have worked hard in the past to burn the programs into the circuitry. Consciousness is called in during the first phase of learning and is excluded from the game playing after it is deep in the system.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Littles Doe Hard Past Games Brain Consciousness Activity Program Tasks Phases Excluded

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“John F.Kennedy gave probably the greatest inauguration speech ever that first time, but I guarantee you when he first walked out there he was thinking, "Goodness gracious this is big and I better be up to the task."”

Thinking Firsts Bigs Speech Goodness First Time Tasks Guarantees Gracious Inauguration

Author:Barack Obama

“The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.”

Firsts Ideas Eye Hours Half Exercise Tasks Wake Up Invention Rising Waking Half Hours

Book:Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering

Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering

“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

“The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.”

Ifs Men Firsts War Government Political Struggle Disease Tasks Doctors Liberated Bad Government

Book:The birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception

Source: The birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception

“...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.”

People Firsts Kind May Christian Individual Belief Left Can Do Worship Tasks Finals Missions Christian Life Corporate Resurrection Easter Lapses Collusion

Author:N. T. Wright

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.”

People Firsts Government Today America Politics Behinds Responsibility Tasks Invisible Conspiracy Alliances Allegiance State Government Owing Statesmanship

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.”

“A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.”

People Firsts Mean Children Long School Long Time Adults Standing Tasks Trade Phrases Instruction Long Time Ago Tedious Bossy

Author:Daniel Handler

“All of which raises the question – your task, burden, privilege, call it what you like – a question which men and women, great and not-so of every color, creed and sexual persuasion have asked since they first had the language to do so, and probably before: Does Anything I Do Matter?”

Men Firsts Doe Matter Language Color Men And Women Tasks Raises Privilege Burden Creeds Persuasion

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“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 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

“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.”

“The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.”

Inspirational Firsts Believe Consciousness Virtue Society Teaching Students Tasks Transformation Personal Experiences

Author:Paul Wellstone

“Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.”

Inspirational Firsts Motivational Deals Break Emotional Tasks Distress

Author:Brian Tracy

“If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. . . . And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made - that you made - and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Made Home Chance Morning Pride Tomorrow Bed Tasks Encouragement Miserable Accomplished Coming Home Every Morning Graduation Tomorrow Will Be Better

Author:William H. McRaven

“Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.”

Needs Firsts Long Spiritual Spirituality Next Sorrow Tasks Longing Guides Liberation Intensity

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.”

“To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.”

Firsts Lying Teacher Teaching Tasks Leaving Appreciation Educational Great Teacher Inspirational Teacher

Book:The Montessori Method

Source: The Montessori Method

“A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.”

Needs Firsts War Joy Found Doubt Essentials Tasks Destruction Hammers Hardness

Book:Ecce Homo

Source: Ecce Homo

“Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.”

World Firsts Ends Suffering Fighting Sin This World Tasks Trials Temptation Midst Persevere Something Better Dissatisfied Trials And Temptations

Author:Saint Augustine

“If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.”

Ifs Men Life Firsts Together Science Life Is Learning Perception Tasks Perceive Primitive Anthropology Thoughts On Life Primitive Man Ethnography

Author:William Graham Sumner

“Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.”

Firsts Important Reading Sin Morning Tasks Excuse Checks Lunch Email Postponement

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Our lives become the sum of all whom we have loved. It is important not to waste anyone. One task of living out the last half of life is excavating and recovering all of those whom we loved in the first half. Thus, the recovery of lost loves becomes an important way in which the past affects the present.”

Way Firsts Important Lasts Past Life Is Lost Love Is Half Our Lives Waste Tasks Recovery Grieving Lost Love Recovering

Author:George Vaillant

“The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the I, under another form, continues the task of existence.”

Firsts Moments Form Sleep Existence Impossible Tasks Determine Instant Our Thoughts Fog Can't Sleep Hazy

Author:Gerard De Nerval

“First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth doing well. And to do anything well, wheter it be typing a letter or drawing up an agreement involving millions, we must give not only our hands to the doing of it, but our brains, our enthusiasm, the best - all that is in us. The task to which you dedicate yourself can never become a drudgery.”

Giving Firsts Wells Whole Hands Brain Millions Tasks Letters Accomplish Drawing Enthusiasm Agreement Aspire Vitality Involving Drudgery Typing

Author:B. C. Forbes

“To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.”

Firsts Inspiration Faith Force Tasks Strive Christian Inspirational

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.”

World Firsts Left Tasks

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn't lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.”

Ifs Firsts Moments Christian Lasts Lost Prayer Greater Failing Wind Return Discipline Tasks Investment Response Christian Inspirational Resorts Dividends

Author:Charles R. Swindoll