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• A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.

  Madeleine Albright

  Remains, Has Beens

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• Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Compassion, Suffering

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

  Sue Thoele

  Love, Hurt, Heart

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• Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Soul, Holiness, Holy

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• ...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Death, Light, Darkness

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• I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.

  Martin Heidegger

  Past, Destiny, Men

  "Der Spiegel" Magazine, May 31, 1976.

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• One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.

  Andy Stanley

  Ideas, Difficult, Difficult Tasks

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• It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Real, Men, Battle

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• Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.

  David Korten

  Kings, Luxury, Long

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• The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and elevation of the mountains, by the animals, the woods and jungles, and by the rivers. Our task is to know how to listen and interpret the messages that are sent to us. The original peoples knew how to read every movement of the clouds, the meaning of the winds, and they knew when violent downpours were coming... We have forgotten all that.

  Leonardo Boff

  Stars, Animal, Rivers

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• Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide her... Some have attempted to help her but most have simply tried to use her. Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her with no consideration, other than their immediate needs. And they give little thought for their own children who will inherit their lack of love. So they use her and abuse her with little consideration and then when she shudders of blows her breath. They are offended and raise their fist at God.

  William P. Young

  Children, Blow, Giving

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• The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?

  Lynn Margulis

  Cells, Blood, Ideas

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• I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing commanded, maybe it's the first thing forgotten. But it is the first admonition and it is absolutely unequivocal. It is part of right livelihood.

  Wes Jackson

  Thinking, Garden, Environmental

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• Time Management Tips: One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon to identify time and task challenges while these are still manageable and while we still have a choice. The organizational adage, "the more parts, the more trouble," also applies to words. Multiplying words may actually multiply the probability of being misunderstood; economies in expression (without being taciturn or aloof) not only save time, but usually are more honest and more clear.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Expression, Choices, Challenges

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• We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Past, Personality, Childhood

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• We must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic effort. At no time in our history has unity among our people been so vital as it is at the present time. Unity of purpose, unity of effort, and unity of spirit are essential to accomplish the task before us.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Thinking, People

  "Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. March 17, 1948.

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• We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of peace after the fighting is over has always been a
  difficult task.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Fighting, Problem

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.296, New Word City

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• Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.

  John Hagel

  Hard Work, Passion, Mean

  "Only Passion Can Transform Stress Into Success" by John Hagel, bigthink.com.

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• ...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Slides, Insisting

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.226, Faber & Faber

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• I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible.

  Tom Chatfield

  Ideas, Games, Broken

  "Can Video Games Alter Society.. in a Good Way?" by Tom Chatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.

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• I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Writing, School, Thinking

  "Writing away again in Margaritaville". Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June, 1998.

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• No task is too big or too small for God. He cares for us. He wants the best for us. More importantly He just wants us to include Him in our lives by trusting in Him.

  Dan Ellis

  Care, Want, Bigs

  "A conversation with Carolina Hurricanes goalie Dan Ellis". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. March 2013.

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• After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts to breed by itself; the process goes on solely in the mind, not on paper. I feel a kind of gentle development, an uncurling inside, and I know that the details are there already, that in fact I would see them plainly if I looked closer, but I prefer to wait until what is loosely called inspiration has completed the task for me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Inspiration, Writing, Waiting

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• The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

  Elie Wiesel

  Turbulent Times, Jew, Primaries

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• Good teams focus on the task at hand. They don't care what's happened the last 13 days, they worry about today and they worry about getting better. That's what good teams do.

  Mike Zimmer

  Team, Hands, Worry

  Source: www.nfl.com

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