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“Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.”

Trying Easy Responsibility Tasks Good Day Bad Day Parental Juggling Easy Tasks

Author:Ali Landry

“Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.”

Trying Believe War Today Citizens Conflict Tasks Treats Terrorist Who We Are

Author:Todd Tiahrt

“Any big task if you look at the grand picture... it seems to big to accomplish, so just watch the footstep in front of you... And that's what I do; try and win little battles every day.”

Ifs Trying Looks Littles Bigs Seems Winning Watches Fronts Battle Tasks Accomplish Mma Footsteps

Author:Forrest Griffin

“So robots are good at very simple things like cleaning the floor, like doing a repetitive task. Our robots have a little tiny bit of common sense. Our robots know that if they've got something in their hand and they drop it, it's gone. They shouldn't go and try and put it down.”

Ifs Knows Trying Littles Hands Bits Simple Common Gone Tasks Tiny Common Sense Robots Cleaning Simple Things Repetitive

Author:Rodney Brooks

“A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.”

Way Trying Wells May Art Natural Talent Students Becoming Reflection Labor Tasks Roots Fruit Perseverance Vain Excellent Appropriate Instruction Pupils Adapted Natural Talent

Book:Selected Works

Source: Selected Works

“Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the religious imagination. To try to make a fresh way of talking at the most serious, ardent, and enthusiastic level, heading off the religious encapsulation, is one of the primary intellectual tasks of future thought.”

Way Trying Kind Imagination Religious Levels Talking Serious Intellectual Tasks Primaries Again And Again Translations Enthusiastic Revival Headings Ardent Way Of Talking

Author:Susan Sontag

“Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.”

Knows Trying Art Path Degrees Tasks Claims Excellence Critics Chosen Steers

Author:Norbert Lynton

“In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are trying to perform with the device. [...] Professional designers are usually aware of the pitfalls. But most design is not done by professional designers, it is done by engineers, programmers, and managers.”

Trying Done Design Tasks Managers Experts Designer Devices Users Engineers Programmers Pitfalls

Author:Donald A. Norman

“Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.”

Trying Humans Two Ideas Courses Human Beings Impossible Painting Planets Tasks Complexes Paint Surface Absurd Organisms Portraits Portraiture

Author:David Cobley

“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.”

“There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.”

People Trying Important Done Enough Successful Focus Tasks Lists Being Successful Successful People Enough Time

Author:Brian Tracy

“Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.”

Ifs Trying May Enough Able Expression Materials Tasks Fortunate Pace Rip Select Freedom Of Expression Your Freedom Pace Yourself

Book:The Writing Life

Source: The Writing Life

“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

“Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.”

Trying House Simple Walks Doors Fronts Keys Exercise Tasks Series Shoes Get Up Ipods Front Doors

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.”

Trying Jobs Tasks Miracle

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.”

Ifs World Way Trying Gone Figures Tasks Comment Being Funny

Author:Matt Groening

“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

“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

“I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.”

Knows Trying Stills I Can Matter Hard Hard Work Proud Tasks No Matter What Crafts Get Better

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us.”

Trying Important Light Darkness Environment Our Lives Amount Tasks Important Things Inner Light

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with those others from a position of inferiority or helplessness. Teacher, doctors, social workers, or television producers possess more status than most parents.... As a result, the parent today isa maestro trying to conduct an orchestra of players who have never met and who play from a multitude of different scores, each in a notation the conductor cannot read.”

“I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.”

Giving Trying Years Whole Moments Plans Minutes Rocks Ten Hundred Tasks Busy Fancy Idleness Comes And Goes Trifles Whim

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.”

Trying Crazy Healthy Tasks Healthy Fear

Author:Francis Chan

“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

“The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished.”

Trying Doe Sometimes Care Wish Enemy Plans Achieve Projects Tasks Accomplish Finished Excellent Overwhelmed Unfinished Prosecution Excellent Work

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough - more than enough - of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on - not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.”

“My only challenge is to entertain. And I accomplish my task better when I myself am entertained by what I am doing. I am very critical of myself, I constantly set the bar higher and higher. I try to surpass myself. That`s all. But I also know how to preserve myself, to not let myself get bedazzled by the smoke and mirrors.”

Knows Trying Challenges Know How Higher Tasks Mirrors Accomplish Critical Bars Smoke Preserves Smoke And Mirrors

Author:Val Kilmer

“When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying to multi task, not trying to talk on the phone, but in my character.”

Trying Character Scene Tasks Phones Connected Partners Breathing

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“The most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the task and the work and try and make the best film that you can then people will come.”

People Ifs Trying Important Film Focus Elements Tasks Collaboration Filmmaking Ensemble Best Film

Author:Nina Jacobson

“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”

Source: Morse, John T.Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!”

Giving Trying Said Earth Moving Difficult Tasks Give Me Stupidity Ignorant Lifts Chained Difficult Tasks

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change.”

“It is always easy to shine in the dark mud! Choose the difficult task: Amongst the pearls under the sun, try to shine more than them!”

Trying Easy Difficult Dark Sun Tasks Shining Pearls Mud Difficult Tasks

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Technology is going to transform people's lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies. My main task is to understand what's going on and try to see where we can fit in.”

People World Trying Technology Study Fit Tasks My Time New Technology

Author:Carlos Slim

“Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.”

Trying Desire Circumstances Tasks Errors Tempted Quietness Desire To Live Peace And Quiet

Author:William Thoms

“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

“Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn how to walk, talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends, even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to have evolved.”

Trying Mind Humans Children Body School Remember Reading Language Walks Technology Written Objects Personality Skills Tasks Harder Species Wide Human Mind Arithmetic Knack Written Language

Author:Steven Pinker

“Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task.”

Ifs Needs Giving Trying Littles Long Enough Body Care Able Desire Virtue Meditation One Day Appreciate Tasks Take Care Endless Unhappy Margins Physical Body

Author:Laozi

“The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.”

World Trying Morning Tasks Outside World Morning Routines

Author:Austin Kleon

“You try to break it down to weeks at a time otherwise you sort of make yourself crazy spinning out going from one....you just can't get your head around one of them fully. So I'm more task oriented. I like to sort of like focus on one thing for a couple of weeks...and also they're all in different stages of development.”

Trying Different Break Focus One Thing Week Crazy Stage Development Couple Tasks Spinning Stages Of Development Focus On One Thing

Author:Justin Theroux

“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

“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 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

“It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.”

People Trying Tasks Sincerity Cover Ups Deceitful

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“The task [in Afghanistan] is to reduce civilian casualties while still not hesitating to respond to enemies who are trying to kill our soldiers.”

Trying Stills Enemy Tasks Soldier Afghanistan Civilians Casualties Civilian Casualties

Author:David Petraeus

“Trying to keep a society together, trying to keep the older and the younger people together, trying to keep those who live in rural areas together with those who live in cities is one of the most important and most noble tasks of politicians these days.”

People Trying Important Together Cities Politician Areas Tasks Noble These Days Rural Areas

Author:Angela Merkel

“My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.”

Trying Mind Has Beens Said Pleasure Greater Generations Century Mines Approach Tasks Possession Survived Commentators Few Words Decipher

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I just want to remind people that the task of those who support reproductive rights and reproductive justice didn't change based on who is in the White House. We have leadership that is not supportive of what we're trying to do, but the demand for justice shouldn't be modulated.”

People Want Trying House Justice White Support Rights Demand Tasks White House Supportive Reproductive Rights

Author:Willie Parker

“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

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