Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on… — Anonymous 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
This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show. — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Trying to keep a society together, trying to keep the older and the younger people together, trying to keep those who live… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image