Best tasks & mean Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.”

Mind Mean Ability Common Knowledge Equal Tasks Details Intellect Useless Reasoning Leisure Idle

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.”

Knows Mean Responsibility Accepting Greater Teacher Our Lives Streets Kings Yoga Tasks Enlightened Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.”

Mean Has Beens Different Science Understanding Ability Flower Capacity Stones Tasks Ill Sufficient Honour Shells Lowest Newton Unworthy Labourers

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.”

People Ifs Men Want Should Mean Ends Shows Values Decision Economics Tasks Ultimate Aim Chosen Judgement Definite Scope Theoretical Attainment Valuation

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“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

“Yoga means we take responsibility for the tasks in our life. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The question is: how do we handle it?”

Giving Mean Responsibility Our Lives Yoga Tasks Karma Handle Taking Responsibility Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens Matter Facts Use America Lying Courses Succeed Creating Gun Tasks Agendas Socialist Banned

Author:Sarah Brady

“It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.”

Inspirational Mean Art Ends Moving Artist Literature Speak Goal Roles Mankind Reader Tasks Ridiculous Irony Pathetic Specialists Carried Away Pathos

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.”

Mean Ends Names Language Understanding Tasks Instruments Heal Cherish Precision Stewards Using Words

Book:Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

Source: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

“Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.”

Mean Two Given Chance Moral Cases Virtue Example Morality Tasks Vices Circles Excess Defects Moral Virtues

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.”

Mean Body Mother Values Eating Conscious Negative Tasks Refuse Poison Unconscious Disorder Destroying Rescue Tolerate Resorts Eating Disorder Allergic Vomiting

Author:Marion Woodman

“If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.”

Ifs Men Mean Doe Found Work Destiny Tasks Busy Likes Enthusiasm Mortals Bees Busy Bee

Book:True bills

Source: True bills

“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.”

“History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.”

Mean Spiritual Values Church Race Class Struggle Blood Conflict Tasks Folks Dogma Settlement Spiritual Values

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.”

Needs Mean Night Simple Morning Duty Members Tasks Various Cease Employee Categories Now And Then Senior Distribution Obliged Small Parts Clerks Deputies

Author:Jose Saramago

“Work is a means; it is not an end. And for any tasks that can be performed or eliminated by a capital instrument, human labor is not the best means... Furthermore, we have science, engineering and management - the three disciplines - that really plan and control the production of goods and services, trying to eliminate labor. Who the hell is government to come along and try to create labor? The people who are producing wealth are trying to eliminate toil, while the politicians are trying to create it.”

“We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!”

“The world is complex, and so too must be the activities that we perform. But that doesn't mean that we must live in continual frustration. No. The whole point of human-centered design is to tame complexity, to turn what would appear to be a complicated tool into one that fits the task, that is understandable, usable, enjoyable.”

World Humans Mean Whole Turns Design Fit Activity Tools Tasks Complexes Complicated Complexity Frustration Enjoyable

Author:Donald A. Norman

“Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.”

Mean Two Eye Opportunity Games Sports Hours Pleasure Animal Brain Moral Ought Taxes Tasks Worn Toil Relaxation Simplest Limbs Diversion Artisans Daily Tasks

Author:Horace Greeley

“Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.”

Mean Hands Energy Tasks Accomplish Spending Dedication Task At Hand

Author:Anil Sinha

“Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.”

Inspirational Mean Political Impossible Tasks

Author:Chanakya

“The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.”

Should Mean Persons Political Ability Impossible Tasks Employee Efficient Rulers

Author:Chanakya

“Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and device or is experienced. A ruler should be careful enough to designate other tasks to such persons.”

Should Mean Persons Doe Sometimes Enough Political Tasks Careful Accomplish Devices Be Careful Rulers Unintelligent

Author:Chanakya

“Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.”

Mean Two Hard Feelings Action Moral Virtue Middle Tasks Aim Vices Be Good Excess Hitting Defects Moral Virtues

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to see me in a theater and they want to have their picture taken with me, it's not the end of the world. It's one of those things, where I'm not the only comic who does it. A lot of comics do it. If I'm doing a 4,000-seat venue, it might be a little bit of a different task, but it's all good.”

People Ifs World Want Trying Kind Mean Littles Doe Different Ends Might Bits Taken Comedy Little Bit Tasks Theater Comic Seats End Of The World Venues Picture Taken

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.”

Mean Wisdom Knowledge Technology Tasks Practicals Organized Application Systematic Science And Technology Knowledge Wisdom

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.”

Mean Night Order Passion Hard Work Findings Tasks Importance Harder Executives Weekend Really Mean Work Harder

Author:John Hagel

“Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if it means they make a mess of your kitchen or living room. It's all about your perspective on these things. Let them play. When you do, the kids do not have to be reintroduced to ways of questioning nature, and the task of promoting science would be a trivial exercise.”

Ifs World Way Mean Children Play Would Be Kids Natural Rooms Perspective Exercise Tasks Obvious Mess Kitchen Questioning Promoting Living Room

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're doing ten tasks, two are going to be vastly more important than others.”

Ifs Mean Two Important Causes Effects Ten Tasks Important Things

Author:Brian Tracy

“I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time.”

Thinking Writing Mean Facts Novel Events Tasks Rose Profession Journalism Novelists Appropriate Turnover

Author:Ian Mcewan

“A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.”

Mean Ideas Language Process Powerful Computer Tasks Programming Organize Framework Programming Languages

Author:Hal Abelson

“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

“Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good.”

Humans Mean Purpose Given Greater Progress Generations Tasks Disaster Unlimited This Generation

Book:The Dawn of Liberation

Source: The Dawn of Liberation

“Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.”

Knows Men May Mean Ends Law He Man Judging Genius Tasks Sole Hazards Remakes Above The Law

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistable pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.”

“Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.”

Mean Waiting Tasks Gods Will Conclusion God Will Provide

Book:A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

“The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.”

Needs Mean School Moving Cutting Progress Normal Tasks Constant Bites Documents Need To Move On

Book:Wise Up

Source: Wise Up

“We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.”

Thinking Mean Courses Magic Calling Offers Illusion Tasks Machines Intelligent Software Mediocrity Seducing

Author:Larry Constantine

“Since God alone provides the means for the successful accomplishment of any task, it seems evident that a person needs to be called by God to be an effective teacher. Without this call to teaching, how will anyone be able to put up with everything that teachers face daily?”

Needs Mean Persons Seems Able Faces Successful Teacher Teaching Tasks Accomplishment Evident Effective Teacher Called By God

Author:Basil Moreau

“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

“My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules; very simple rules that apply to all writing in a way, which is: don't lie; if you're wrong, correct; do not misrepresent; and try and keep oneself intellectually honest - which means, as a writer, the very difficult task in public of admitting you were wrong.”

Ifs Way Writing Trying Mean Lying Difficult My Own Simple Views Honest Tasks Oneself Admitting Don't Lie Difficult Tasks

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“I'm an actor that loves to eat on camera. I love it. Something about the act of eating means that you actually can't act as much. You have to be involved in the very real task of trying to ingest sustenance without choking and dying. Something about that process takes the heat off trying to act and often feels more natural.”

Feels Trying Mean Real Actors Process Natural Dying Involved Eating Tasks Cameras Heat Choke Sustenance

Author:Grace Lynn Kung

“I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.”

Mean Effort Tasks Lazy

Author:Thomas Lynch

“The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.”

Mean Doe Sometimes Science Nature Stage Tasks Mastery Comprehension

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.”

Thinking Way Giving Humans Looks Mean Whole Character Seems Comedy Poet Tasks Tragedy Relation Mysterious Human Life Novelists Length Fragments Affinity Spun

Book:A Letter to a Young Poet

Source: A Letter to a Young Poet

“And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task.”

Mean Important Might Black White Possibility Findings Tasks Scientist Philosopher Rejects Hunting Principal Crow

Author:Jostein Gaarder

“That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.”

Want Mean Children Done Father Tasks Injustice Affection Deny Stealing Pet Spoil

Book:Pygmalion and Major Barbara

Source: Pygmalion and Major Barbara

“The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you don’t come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. He’ll use his word, and if I understand it, I’ll say, “Oh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da?”

Ifs Mean Doe Use Bigs Fall Language Stars Black Space Views Sun Fields Red Tasks Scientist Fellows Point Of View Holes Spots Giants Regions Black Hole Astrophysics Sunspots

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.”

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