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• It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.

  Cy Twombly

  Lonely, Feelings, Lines

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• Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.

  Seth Godin

  Progress, Path, Cliffs

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• If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Art, House, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Successful, People, Giving

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• What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

  Bill Parcells

  Past, Hands, People

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• The task of life is to face sacred moments.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Sacred, Faces, Life Is

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• Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Important, Use, Alive

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World”, p.39, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

  Arnold Bennett

  Procrastination, Cost, Achieve

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• To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant educational task. The social and economic ideas that gave birth to the transfer system must be discredited and replaced with old values of individual independence and self-reliance. The social philosophy of individual freedom and unhampered private property must again be our guiding light.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Educational, Philosophy, Self

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.

  Ben Stiller

  Able, Speed, Hours

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• A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

  Val Kilmer

  Starting Over, Acting, Impossible

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• On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's fault.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Average, Faults, Internet

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• Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.

  Brent L. Top

  Balance, Demand, Mortality

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• Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Home, Debt, Financial

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• Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Wise, Self, Generosity

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• Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this ‘castrated writing’ - I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.

  Murong Xuecun

  Writing, Cutting, Skills

  "Words We Can Use, and Those We Can Not". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2011.

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• This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.

  Eugene Schwartz

  Desire, Mass, Direct

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• The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

  Aleister Crowley

  Circles, Firsts, Magician

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.124, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support the EU and the Commission... but every nation has to have the courage to broach such structural reforms and speak clearly about them without making people be afraid.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  People, Support, Reform

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• I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Love, Generations, Radio

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• The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

  Edward Tufte

  Nature, Thinking, Law

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• When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

  George Soros

  Success, People, Acting

  Interview with Mark Schapiro, September 5, 2000.

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• What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.

  Clara Zetkin

  Women, Party, Issues

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• Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

  Alain de Botton

  Voice, Priorities, Soul

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.190, Vintage

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• The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions.

  Steven Pinker

  Numbers, Psychology, Add

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.517, W. W. Norton & Company

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