Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Once you’ve got a task to do, it’s better to do it than to live with the fear of it.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow. — Mary Slessor Copy Share Image
Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. — William Feather Copy Share Image
We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult… — Phillis Wheatley Copy Share Image
We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind .… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change.… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the… — Peter W. Huber Copy Share Image
If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Getting started as a volunteer anywhere can be a challenge to a lot of people. The biggest hurdle is that people think… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee Copy Share Image
A daily creative project is like a marathon. It's a ridiculously daunting task, but making an original creation every day gives you… — Noah Scalin Copy Share Image
On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image