Tasks Quotes - Page 29

• Our task is to accept each moment and move on from there, continuing to do our level best.

  John Daishin Buksbazen

  Moving, Levels, Moments

  John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)

  Chanakya

  Fate, Political, Grace

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• A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.

  Chanakya

  Fate, Men, Political

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• Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Mean, Political

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• The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.

  Chanakya

  Mean, Political, Impossible

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• Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Political, Should

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• Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and device or is experienced. A ruler should be careful enough to designate other tasks to such persons.

  Chanakya

  Mean, Political, Doe

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• There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before us will be to chart a direction for the economic steps ahead. This will be a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future policy is a debate over history-a debate over the causes of our current situation. The battle for the past will determine the battle for the present. So it's crucial to get the history straight.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Past, Battle, Causes

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• The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Top Management, Attention, Too Much

  Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad (2013). “Competing for the Future”, p.174, Harvard Business Press

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• Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Feelings

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

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• This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.

  Christiana Figueres

  Firsts, Development, Global Warming

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• Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Hero, Support, Technique

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• WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but also that which is apprehended by the soul, the conviction that the object [of belief] is exactly as it is apprehended. If, as regards real or supposed truths, you content yourself with giving utterance to them in words, without apprehending them or believing in them, especially if you do not seek real truth, you have a very easy task as, in fact, you will find many ignorant people professing articles of faith without connecting any idea with them.

  Maimonides

  Real, Reading, Believe

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.159, Aeterna Press

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• I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Zero, Years, Culture

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• I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Order, Nwo

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• The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Law, Judging

  Sonia Sotomayor's Opening Statement on the first day of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, www.npr.org. July 13, 2009.

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• The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right.

  David Souter

  Heart, Simple, Mind

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

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• Vision is about more than just getting things done, accomplishing some task, achieving something; it is about discovering and expanding our view of others, affirming them, believing in them, and helping them discover and realize the potential within them-helping them find their own voice.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, Views, Voice

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

  Harry Houdini

  Self, Training, Thrill

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• This generation has a responsibility to reshape the world. Start the task even if it will not be fulfilled in your lifetime. Even if it seems hopeless now, never give up. Offer a positive vision, with enthusiasm and joy, and an optimistic outlook.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving Up, Optimistic, Responsibility

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• Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

  Georges Bataille

  Communication, Desire, Fundamentals

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• I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Order, Priorities, Temptation

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• One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Shapes, Narrative

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• As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.

  Mae Jemison

  May, Week, Hours

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• Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

  Paul Hindemith

  Meaningful, Confusion, Treasure

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