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“A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.”

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy is to receive and to pass on undiluted purification, the divine light, and the understanding which brings perfection.”

Light Christian Form Understanding Divine Perfection Tasks Aim Orthodox Hierarchy Orthodox Christian Purification Divine Light

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.”

World Reality Together Form Given Understanding Tasks Senses Realms Fullness Replicate

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.”

Knows World Feels Use Hands Form Mother Growth Nature Shapes Tasks Strive Wide Checks Barriers Rude Centre Prudent Wanton Deformity Pow Prunes Uncouth

Author:John Armstrong

“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.”

“I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance, an awareness of something more than the day-to-day or the petty. I am not reading Emanuel Kant to try to embark on a task of seeing if I can understand myself, what the aesthetic experience is. But I wholeheartedly believe in it, even though I think not too many do nowadays.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Believe I Can Use Spiritual Form Hate Reading Seeing Awareness Tasks I Hate Guidance Aesthetic Day To Day Petty Wholeheartedly Spiritual Guidance

Author:Richard Meale

“People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts”

“I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as an artist is to reach some form of catharsis yourself, and express something that allows an audience to have some form of catharsis. If there's no discovery in what you do, if there's no struggle in what you do to have that discovery, then, there's no meaning in what you do.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Form Artist Audience Struggle Discovery Tasks Theater Theatrical Catharsis

Author:Scott Cohen

“The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.”

Wells Two Form Process Environment Produce Depends Evolution Tasks Tests Variety Schemes Simplest Generator

Author:Herbert Simon

“The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.”

Giving Stories Problem Form Given Elements Tasks Essence Narrative Shells Obscure Penetrate

Author:Deborah Eisenberg

“In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.”

Men Needs Art Form Elements Tasks Harmony Dozen Contradictory Involving

Author:Alvar Aalto

“One form of prayer moves us particularly to take up the task of evangelization and to seek the good of others: it is the prayer of intercession. Let us peer for a moment into the heart of Saint Paul, to see what his prayer was like. It was full of people: "...I constantly pray with you in every one of my prayers for all of you... because I hold you in my heart" (Phil 1:4, 7). Here we see that intercessory prayer does not divert us from true contemplation, since authentic contemplation always has a place for others.”

People Heart Doe Moments Moving Form Prayer Praying My Heart Tasks Saint Contemplation Peers Intercession Intercessory Prayer Saint Paul

Author:Pope Francis

“A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves out to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness.”

“To us, to the everyday teachers of everyday students, neither of whom is writing the book of the universe but who both have their fullest life only when they align themselves with its truths, working out our own commitment to and our own vision of agape, in however homely or personal a form, is a life long task that both guides us in our teaching endeavors and honors those endeavors at the same time.”

Writing Long Book Form Universe Vision Teacher Teaching Students Honor Commitment Tasks Everyday Work Out Guides Endeavor Long Life Homely Agape

Author:Marshall Gregory

“The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."”

Way Form Leader Conscious Tasks Accomplish Ease Followers Spontaneous Great Leader Effortless Leadership Potential

Author:Laozi

“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon [the] possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.”

World Way Giving Humans Philosophy Faces Form Left Chance Human Beings Possibility Revolution Photography Tasks Despite Significance

Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“Social Security should be phased out and ended altogether. ... Social Security in any form is morally irredeemable. We should be debating, not how to save Social Security, but how to end it - how to phase it out so as to best protect both the rights of those who have paid into it, and those who are forced to pay for it today. This will be a painful task. But it will make possible a world in which Americans enjoy far greater freedom to secure their own futures.”

World Should Ends Today Form Social Enjoy Pay Greater Rights Security Protect Tasks Paid Painful Secure Phases Social Security

Author:Alex Epstein

“The corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds. The task of cleaning the corridors of power (or cleaning the lobby of lobbies) was important so that the government machinery itself is improved. This process of correction and cleaning took quite some time but it will provide long-term benefits in the form of clean and fair governance.”

Kind Long Important Government Form Process Term Benefits Fairs Tasks Clean Various Long Term Cleaning Machinery Governance Corrections Corridors Delhi

Author:Narendra Modi

“One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read liked getting their information in rhyme just as much as in prose. The genre that we would think of as nonfiction often was written in verse in forms like the Georgic when people thought that one of the tasks of poetry was conveying arguments and information in a pleasant way.”

People Thinking Way Form Interesting Written Century Information Argument Tasks Genre Pleasant Prose Nonfiction Verses Rhyme Interesting Things 18th Century Conveying

Author:Robert Hass

“We know form past experience that when you put women's issues or face issues on the back burner, they never get dealt with. So all struggles have to be dealt with simultaneously, but within an anti-capitalist framework. A monumental task, but nothing less will do.”

Knows Past Faces Form Struggle Issues Tasks Capitalist Framework Past Experiences Back Burner

Author:Michael Yates

“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

“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

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.”

Important Real Form Motivation Energy Leadership Leader Roles Position Capacity Tasks Organization Function Patterns Being A Leader Real Power Future Leaders Leadership Roles

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.”

Ifs Form Term Imagination Impossible Achieve Higher Limits Tasks Absolutes Forgiving Atheist Appeals Novelists Outcomes Entity Atonement Absolute Power

Author:Ian Mcewan

“The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.”

Thinking Way Real Remember Form Common Kindness Grace Skills Goodness Ordinary Tasks Inspired Simplicity Saint Routine Usual Reverence Obscurity Ordinary Life Peacefulness

Author:Thomas Merton

“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?”

“Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. Nationalities should form the constitutive links in a great world alliance, and must be guaranteed an independent life in the realm of the spiritual and for locally delimited tasks, while economic and political objectives must be guided internationally in a spirit of peaceful cooperation for the promotion of mankind's common interests.”

“Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.”

Way Mind Different Form Literature Computer Tasks Intelligence Technique Genre Creative Writing Literary Genre

Author:Aberjhani

“Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false face, and so on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.”

Reality Faces Form Values Culture Challenges Justice Struggle Diversity Tasks Social Justice Mad Chaos Insight Surrender Fixed

Author:Ralph Ellison

“In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.”

Inspiration Faces Form Simple Economic Tasks Simplicity Architecture Genuine Ass Bad Ass Badass Respectable Pioneers Plight Architecture And Design Architecture Design

Author:Oskar Schlemmer

“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

“The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of government.”

Government Form Spirit Interest Party Modern Ordinary Tasks Congress Various Operations Regulation Principal Interfere Legislation Legislature Factions

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.”

Giving Helping Form Work Pleasure Creating Tasks Unexpected Offering Finishing Creating Something

Author:Paul Lester Wiener

“The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.”

Form Design Projects Tasks Essence Transformation

Author:Vittorio Gregotti

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