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• If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Children, Giving Up, Play

  Rudolf Steiner (1988). “Education as an Art”, p.96, SteinerBooks

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• Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

  Brian Tracy

  Morning, Thinking, Goal

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work slowly and consistently. Anthony Trollope, the nineteenth-century writer who managed to be a prolific novelist while also revolutionizing the British postal system, observed, “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Running, Creativity, Daily Tasks

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• It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Encouragement, Simple, Giving

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

  Nelson Mandela

  Oppressed, Oppressors

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• The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement

  Og Mandino

  Achievement, Miracle, Done

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.125, Bantam

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• The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

  Robertson Davies

  Writing, Difficult, Can Do

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• Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fall, Greatness, Humanity

  Nelson Mandela's speech in London's Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world, news.bbc.co.uk. February 3, 2005.

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• The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

  Karl Marx

  World

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• As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hunger Poverty, People, President

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• He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

  Winston Churchill

  Death, Soldier, Battle

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• Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

  Plato

  Patience, Wells

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• Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

  Jim Rohn

  Procrastination, Unfinished

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• To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Order, Teach, Preacher

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• Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, People, Effort

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.10, Penguin

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• Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Jobs, Writing, Design

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• The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Ordinary

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• To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

  R. C. Sproul

  Hands, Focus, Mind

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• Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.

  Tariq Ramadan

  World, Changing The World

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• One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

  Max Weber

  Wish, Trying, Finals

  Max Weber (1968). “On Charisma and Institution Building”, p.295, University of Chicago Press

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• Dear friends, let us not forget the flesh of Christ which is in the flesh of refugees: their flesh is the flesh of Christ. It is also your task to direct all the institutions working in the area of forced migration to new forms of co-responsibility. This phenomenon is unfortunately constantly spreading. Hence your task is increasingly demanding in order to promote tangible responses of closeness, journeying with people, taking into account the different local backgrounds.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Order, People

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• The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

  Peter Drucker

  Strong, Weakness, Alignment

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• The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.

  Martin Luther

  Faithful, Treasure, Enough

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• In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Simple, Compassion

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• I believe we face the question: if not now, then when? And if we are grasped by this vision, we may also hear the question: If not us, then who? And if the gospel of Jesus is not the key to this task, then what is?

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Believe, Keys

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