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Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.'… — Neal A. Maxwell
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting… — Jo Boaler
The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is… — Fred Brooks
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every… — Donald Knuth
There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If… — Leslie Lamport
Once you succeed in writing the programs for [these] complicated algorithms, they usually run extremely fast. The computer doesn't need to understand the algorithm, its… — Robert Tarjan
Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found real greatness here… — Edgar Guest
The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep… — Phillis Wheatley
History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold… — Toshiko Kishida
This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which… — Rajneesh
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator… — Wilhelm Wundt
To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even… — Robert M. Pirsig
The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility.... Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as virtues or graces;… — Paul Pruyser
The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth spiritual attitudes, moral… — Robert McCracken
The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike, are the ones… — George Matthew Adams
Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace… — Pope John Paul II
The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its… — Eric Hoffer
Nowadays I find chocolate and/or chocolate-based snacks to be great motivators. Everyone loves chocolate. If someone has a lot of work to do, put a… — Michael Scott
Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts… — Edwin Percy Whipple
The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in. — Peter Block

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