When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting. — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed… — Shelley Hennig Copy Share Image
The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
If someday rockets should open the gates to space, then we must be oriented as to its environmental conditions and their possible… — Hubertus Strughold Copy Share Image
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or… — Stan Kelly-Bootle Copy Share Image
It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?" — Iimani David Copy Share Image
The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources. — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to… — Gabrielle Dennis Copy Share Image
Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn’t be so inclined to… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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