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“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.”

“It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.”

Thinking I Can Courses Sound Simple Tasks

Author:George Gershwin

“Getting started as a volunteer anywhere can be a challenge to a lot of people. The biggest hurdle is that people think they have to give all of their spare time. But if you only have a half hour, you can still make a difference. Assisting with small tasks is invaluable.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Stills Hours Challenges Differences Half Tasks Making A Difference Spares Volunteer Half Hours Hurdle Invaluable Spare Time Getting Started Assisting

Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“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

“I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.”

Thinking Needs Giving Important Life Is Tasks

Author:Kristen Stewart

“One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.”

Ifs Thinking Reality Certain One Thing Sacrifice Acceptance Humility Politician Directors Consequence Tasks Historical Currents Pompous Manipulator

Author:Thomas Merton

“Overcomers have a 'finishing' anointing. They don't merely start things. They keep on moving forward until they complete the task. Many people love to start new things. They like to be creative. They enjoy thinking of new projects and dreaming about new adventures. Often, these people actually start some of the new things they are planning for the future. The problem is that they seldom finish what they start.”

“I think participating in "Gishwhes" is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.”

People Thinking Order Courses Tasks Restaurants Shopping Airplane Verses Crash Crowded Gears Malls Participating Fast Food Scuba Fast Food Restaurants

Author:Misha Collins

“When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.”

Thinking Feels Fronts Lessons Moon Tasks Fingers

Author:Bruce Lee

“The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often doing very humble, manual tasks. It is often the poorest person - the one who has a handica[p, is] ill or old - who is the most prophetic. People who carry responsibility must be close to them and know what they think, because it is often they who are free enough to see with the greatest clarity the needs, beauty and pain of the community.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Giving Persons Enough Pain Spirit Community Responsibility Essentials Tasks Ill Humble Clarity Poorest Manuals Prophetic

Author:Jean Vanier

“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

“When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.”

Thinking Ideas Particular Tasks Divergent

Book:Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

Source: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

“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

“When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.”

Thinking Want Writing Trying Program Tasks Solve

Author:Bill Gates

“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 think our great task is to make certain that our young men and women in the military do not get sucked into never- ending, perpetual warfare within the quagmire of Syria and Iraq. And I will do my very best to make sure that that doesn't happen.”

Thinking Men Happens Young Certain Military Men And Women Tasks Iraq Young Man Perpetual Warfare Syria Never Ending Quagmire Military Women

Author:Hillary Clinton

“It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that think they can play somewhere they really can't. That makes filtering through recruit emails an almost impossible task.”

Thinking Hard Play Impossible Tasks Athlete Email Recruit

Author:Billy Kennedy

“I think we're fooling ourselves if we think that regulators are going to be able to outsmart the bankers. So, the task of designing regulatory reform is trying to make more or less foolproof regulation and that's one of the advantages of the systemic category.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Able Design Advantage Tasks Reform Categories Regulation Bankers Regulators Foolproof Fooling Ourselves

Author:Robert F. Engle

“I think that all countries of the region should join their efforts in the fight against a common threat - terrorism in general and ISIS in particular. It concerns Iran as well, it concerns Saudi Arabia (although the two countries do not get along very well, ISIS threatens both of them), it concerns Jordan, it concerns Turkey (in spite of certain problems regarding the Kurdish issue), and, in my opinion, everybody is interested in resolving the situation. Our task is to join these efforts to fight against a common enemy.”

“If we speak about fundamental things, regulation of the rate is actually the function of the main regulator, namely the function of the Central Bank. And it should think of how the economy and industry react, but also of its fundamental tasks in order to ensure the stability of the rate.”

Ifs Thinking Should Order Speak Economy Industry Tasks Function Fundamentals Rate Stability Regulation Central Banks Regulators

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I think the reason I like making movies sometimes more than doing TV is that you have one task, you only have a certain amount of time to do it, and then it is done. And I really like focusing in that way.”

Thinking Way Sometimes Reason Done Certain Tvs Amount Tasks

Author:Jenny Slate

“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

“Our conscious minds are rapidly overwhelmed with the few tasks that they attempt to manage. That's why our unconscious minds have evolved to handle so much of our thinking.”

Thinking Mind Conscious Tasks Handle Manage Unconscious Overwhelmed Unconscious Mind Conscious Mind

Author:Nick Morgan

“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.”

“I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers.”

Thinking Responsibility Tasks Ministers Evangelism

Author:Mark Dever

“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

“Being a better songwriter, that's top of the list because I think that is a very intimidating, difficult task. I really admire people that just continue to write and get stronger.”

People Thinking Writing Difficult Tasks Stronger Lists Admire Songwriters Intimidating Difficult Tasks

Author:Morgan James

“If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would have lost something terribly important. So I think that we have a task to ensure that this doesn't happen.”

Ifs Thinking Important Book Happens Lost Effort Habit Tasks

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.”

People Thinking Want Trying Hands Moving Focus Tasks Task At Hand

Author:Jeremy Renner

“The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.”

People Thinking Should Seems Lying Habit Tasks Essence Accounts Procrastination Avoiding Psychics Tolls Making People Happy

Author:James Surowiecki

“I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Can Do Nice Succeed Tasks Scary Horrible Acceptable Frightening Nice Things

Author:Julia Sweeney

“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.”

Thinking Learning Concern Tasks Physics Programming Quantum Quantum Physics Quantum Mechanics Quantum Theory Science Physics Theoretical Physics

Author:Niels Bohr

“I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.”

Thinking Trying Walks Company Tasks Harder Stairs

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.”

Thinking Enough Would Be Humanity Wish Judging Creatures Tasks Libertarian Miserable Reform Sufficient

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“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

“For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have.”

Thinking Mind Heart Doe Asks Grief Tasks Blessed Theology Bitter Providing Heart And Mind Dissatisfied

Author:Karl Rahner

“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.”

Ifs Thinking World Looks Hard Facts Law Sleep Animal Millions Essentials Majors Tasks Cat Physics Lazy One Time Cosmic Trusted Spinning Laws Of Physics

Author:Kate Atkinson

“Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.”

Thinking Tasks

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“He's convinced most human adults do not know how to play anymore and that playing is one of the best ways to think. Franky finds children, by far, much more pleasant and intelligent than most adults, but they are easily ruined by their families, schools, and society. He says one of the ways they are ruined is by being forced to think of all the tasks that need to be done as work, not as play. It takes the joy out of living.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Humans Children Done Play School Joy Know How Adults Tasks Intelligent Convinced Best Way Pleasant Ruined

Author:William Wharton

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization

“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.”

“We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.”

Thinking Dies Poor Fate Tasks Accomplish Meaning Of Life Honey Bees Destined Honey Bee Bees And Honey

Author:Muriel Barbery

“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

“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.”

“If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative strategies and plotting elaborate schemes. We would organize conventions, develop programs, and create foundations… But Jesus is so different from us. With the task of taking the gospel to the world, he wandered through the streets and byways…All He wanted was a few men who would think as He did, love as He did, see as He did, teach as He did and serve as He did. All He needed was to revolutionize the hearts of a few, and they would impact the world.”

Ifs Thinking Men World Heart Different Wanted Jesus Left Teach Streets Needed Program Tasks Foundation Impact Strategy Planning Conventions Schemes Organize Innovative

Author:David Platt

“The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost.”

Thinking Men Spirit Powerful Roles Cost Argument Tasks Assuming Thinker Conventions Privileged Loner Plausible Power Of One

Author:Bryce Courtenay

“She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.”

Ifs Thinking Courses Broken Battle Gun Tasks Tables Moved

Book:Tempting Danger

Source: Tempting Danger

“Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.”

Thinking Believe Philosophy Age I Believe Ought Activity Tasks Chiefs Granted Assumption Worthwhile Critical Thinking Animal Liberation

Book:Applied Ethics

Source: Applied Ethics

“I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Break Middle Tasks Structure Bounds Necks Sand Grain Grains Of Sand Hourglass

Author:Dale Carnegie

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