I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet."… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Make a list of the tasks you want to complete by the end of the day. Try to be realistic, rather than… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand,… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet it is… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups… — Frank Underhill Copy Share Image
We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
I am certain that if I have any merit, it is knowing how to make good use of my eyes, to guide… — Gabriel Figueroa Copy Share Image
Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
I am going to create a new special deportation task force focused on identifying and quickly removing the most dangerous criminal illegal… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters… — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the… — Michael Card Copy Share Image
In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. .… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“but those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Unsolvable problems do not exist. Any crisis is a combination of specific tasks to be worked on. The government has the experience… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image