Tasks Quotes

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It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have… — Franz Boas
Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. — Daniel Goleman
The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining… — E F Schumacher
Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral… — Carl Jung
Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic… — Marc Ian Barasch
When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting. — Lynn Hill
There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you create… — Moshe Feldenkrais
The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in… — Chinua Achebe
But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It is… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of… — Nathan M. Pusey
You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks! — Edouard Manet
Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable… — Benito Mussolini
It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given… — Niall Williams
It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and… — Barack Obama
Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware… — Erich Fromm
Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic,… — Michael Ray
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up… — John Hoyt
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments… — Frederick Douglass

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