Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything. — Oscar Micheaux Copy Share Image
After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space,… — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge.… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
We [with Shindzo Abe] should understand that the results of that terrible tragedy of the 20th century, namely World War II, are… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent on the task at hand that he never looked over his… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Giving consistent effort in the little things in day-to-day life leads to true greatness. Specifically, it is the thousands of little deeds… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
The gospel is never heard in isolation. It is always heard against the background of the cultural milieu in which one lives.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image