If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence. — Nik Halik Copy Share Image
Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different.… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise. — Jean Danielou Copy Share Image
You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and… — Libby Larsen Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I think we're fooling ourselves if we think that regulators are going to be able to outsmart the bankers. So, the task… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
Technology is going to transform people's lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies.… — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I am no preacher of the old legal Sabbath. I am a preacher of the gospel. The Sabbath of the Jew is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
