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• It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.

  Phil Ehart

  Running, Kansas, Challenges

  "We are Rich Williams and Phil Ehart from the band Kansas - AUA". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• I believe in fierce love, pushing the edge, calling the robbers, the corporates, the elites, the pillagers and insanely wealthy to task, going whatever distance we need to go now to protect our earth and each other.

  Eve Ensler

  Distance, Believe, Needs

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

  Glenda Jackson

  Essentials, Actors, Elusive

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• Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Crush, Friday, Sorrow

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• A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.

  Marguerite Duras

  War, Women, Rain

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• He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

  John Tillotson

  Journey, World, Action

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• Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Exercise, Simple, Shoes

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.81, Penguin

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• The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Happiness, Hard Work, Wind

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• All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Reality, Agreement, Wild Imagination

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• If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Addresses, Next

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic 'penances.' Simply say no to yourself once a day, and you will be on the road to sanctity for the rest of your life.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Two, Rest Of Your Life, Exotic

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• The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.

  Nellie Melba

  Beautiful, Song, Art

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• Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be increased by any amount of ingenuity expended in their statistical examination: that the statistician's task, in fact, is limited to the extraction of the whole of the available information on any particular issue.

  Ronald Fisher

  Data, Issues, Body

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• The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.

  Dara Horn

  Running, Bridges, Iron

  Dara Horn (2006). “The World to Come: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.

  Anil Sinha

  Mean, Dedication, Hands

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• marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing such a wonderful return for one small seed, that keeps marrow-growers at their dubious task.

  Miss Read

  Doors, Hands, Funny Things

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• There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.

  Nicole Haislett

  Success, Commitment, Doubt

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• We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.

  Kallistos Ware

  God, Christian, Religious

  Kallistos Ware, Kallistos (Bishop of Diokleia) (1995). “The Orthodox Way”, p.14, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or sociologists. A writer's job, is to, by way of fiction, somehow describe the way we live. And to me, this seems an important task, very worth doing, and I think also, to the reading public, it seems, even though they might not articulate it, it seems to them something worth doing also.

  John Updike

  Jobs, Reading, Thinking

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• My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Giving, Firsts, Making Money

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• The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.

  Randy Pausch

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Running, Perseverance, Determination

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• The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  True Friend, Men, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Disappointment, Moon, Journey

  "People Share Moon Landing Memories On YouTube Channel". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 19, 2014.

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• There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Encouragement, Destiny

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.621, Library of America

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