Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl. — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this… — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent… — George Blake Copy Share Image
I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Good leaders, competent leaders must see it as primary task to create friendliness. This something within the scope of most people. Now… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
I must furnish those, who would protect or save life, with an energy source, which produces energy so cheaply that nuclear fission… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along… — Nicole Haislett Copy Share Image
Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity,… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an… — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
I think that all countries of the region should join their efforts in the fight against a common threat - terrorism in… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
At some level, you have to be able to say, "This is my task." It's in small, local ways that you keep… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I'm always driven by something. It doesn't matter what it is, it could be the smallest task or something huge. — Bobby Williams Copy Share Image
The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy,… — Jeffrey Zeldman Copy Share Image
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Do you feel like your action plans are stronger to than your capability? Just take a moment a draw a plan of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
