One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never… — Chris Van Allsburg 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
War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with.… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be… — Lars Leksell Copy Share Image
Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task. — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Since God alone provides the means for the successful accomplishment of any task, it seems evident that a person needs to be… — Basil Moreau Copy Share Image
If you start with community and want to be faithful to community, you have to realize that what binds you together is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
