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• The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Reality, Understanding, Together

  "Truth and Knowledge: Prelude to a Philosophy of Freedom". Book by Rudolf Steiner (Preface), 1892.

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• It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.

  Frank Smith

  Children, Teaching, Needs

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• There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Beautiful, Artist, Design

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• Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.

  Elizabeth Spelke

  Children, Boston, Years

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• The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

  Eric Maisel

  Wise, Successful, Artist

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.

  Eric Maisel

  Inspiration, Artist, Creating

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

  Walter Cronkite

  Opinion, Telling The Truth, Jew

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• The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality and fraternity. Our task is endless.

  Jewel

  Lying, Fighting, Intelligent

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• Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Children, Hero, Past

  Narendra Modi’s banquet speech during his visit to Kenya, www.pmindia.gov.in. July 11, 2016.

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• It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
  And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
  But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Joyce Kilmer (1917). “Main Street, and Other Poems”

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• She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.

  Jim Morrison

  Jesus, Names, Sin

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• The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Christian, Lying, Hero

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• We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Should Have, Purpose, Visionaries

  Gerald R. Ford (1973). “Selected speeches”, Desert Publications

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• Yoga means we take responsibility for the tasks in our life. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The question is: how do we handle it?

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Mean

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• You don't need a special task. Every task is special.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Special

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• Any big task if you look at the grand picture... it seems to big to accomplish, so just watch the footstep in front of you... And that's what I do; try and win little battles every day.

  Forrest Griffin

  Winning, Mma, Battle

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• Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Different, Use

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• This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.

  Christiana Figueres

  Years, Numbers, Revolution

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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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• I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

  Vladimir Lenin

  League, Might, Youth

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.126, Wildside Press LLC

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• Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.

  Regina Brett

  Horse, Pain, Loneliness

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• To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.

  Criss Jami

  Optimistic, Intelligent, Cheesy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.41, Criss Jami

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• Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.

  Criss Jami

  Beautiful, Dark, Lesson Learned

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.28, Criss Jami

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• I focus on the moment and move from task to task.

  Tyler Seguin

  Moving, Focus, Moments

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• Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians of the American heritage. It is my task to report the State of the Union--to improve it is the task of us all.

  John F. Kennedy

  People, Progress, Custodians

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.5, Best Books on

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