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• Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Parenting

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Miracle in the World”, p.99, Bantam

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• Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mistake, Giving, Trying

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Motivational, Matter

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Sports

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

  James A. Baldwin

  Work, Men, Fire

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• Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.

  Charles Ghigna

  Inspiration

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Essays "Circles" (1841)

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• Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Work

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• One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hurt, Unity, Conflict

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the tasks of early adulthood-establishing independence and intimacy-burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Growing Up, Memories, Children

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• 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 daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law - for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Confidence, Fall, Achievement

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

  Arthur Erickson

  Meaningful, Glasses, Space

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• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  Victor Hugo

  Ill Will, Soul, Hardest

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• It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Relationship, Aquariums, Dating

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• All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do not freely take upon ourselves this pre-acceptance of the pain and torment, they will be visited upon us in an otherwise necessary individual and universal collapse. Anyone disassociated from his origin and his spiritually sensed task acts against origin. Anyone who acts against it has neither a today nor a tomorrow.

  Jean Gebser

  Pain, Acceptance, Mindfulness

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• A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

  Anthony Trollope

  Daily Tasks, Beats, Dainty

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.66, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• The great soul is the person who has taken on the task of change. If he or she is able to transcend fear, to act out of courage, the whole group will benefit and each one, in his or her own life, will be suddenly more courageous, though they may not see how or why.

  Gary Zukav

  Taken, Soul, Groups

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Feb 16, 2015

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, Men, Names

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Prayer, Destiny, Men

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• Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

  David Deutsch

  Technology, Way, Firsts

  "The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications". Book by David Deutsch. Chapter 9, 1997.

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• Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Hurt, Athlete, Too Much

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