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• If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Class, India, Slavery

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.113, The Floating Press

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• This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Daily Tasks, Mad, Wealth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.115, A&C Black

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• Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jail, Doe, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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• Luckily for me, I became a rap star so I'm making enough money to support my family. It's funny because that may seem like the only way that I can do such a task.

  Joey Badass

  Stars, Rap, Support

  Source: gothamist.com

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• Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.

  Jason Mraz

  Art, Practice, Giving

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if it means they make a mess of your kitchen or living room. It's all about your perspective on these things. Let them play. When you do, the kids do not have to be reintroduced to ways of questioning nature, and the task of promoting science would be a trivial exercise.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Mean, Kids

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• It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.

  Francis Chan

  Crazy, Healthy, Trying

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• I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Desire, Needs

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.

  Judith Martin

  Retirement, Organization, Ties

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• Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently

  Albert Bandura

  Simple, Everyday, May

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

  Albert Bandura

  Hard Work, Self, People

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• Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Arousal, Levels

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts

  Albert Bandura

  Cutting, Self, People

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• Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

  Albert Bandura

  Self, May, Demand

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• Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

  Albert Bandura

  Discrepancies Between, Self, Judgment

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• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

  Albert Camus

  Meaningful, Hope, Men

  Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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• The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're doing ten tasks, two are going to be vastly more important than others.

  Brian Tracy

  Mean, Two, Important

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

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• When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done.

  Brian Tracy

  Long, Secret, Done

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

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• As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

  Brian Tracy

  Morning, Tired, Phones

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

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• If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit.

  Brian Tracy

  Exercise, Different, Habit

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

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• I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure in the task. If you don't, you will drive yourself off a cliff because your fortunes will rise and fall, and if you identify too closely with that, you really will go insane.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Fall, Thinking, Expectations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of the trickster, and the trickster was a clown, a humorous fellow. His task was to trick the gods, to humor the gods into laughing, so that there was access to the divine - because laughter is a moment when we are completely ourselves.

  George Carlin

  Laughter, Humorous, Laughing

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.

  Jeet Banerjee

  Procrastination, Prioritize, Avoiding

  Source: theimarketingcafe.com

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• I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I value my time. I work smarter by valuing my time and doing the things that can't be done without me while hiring a great team around me to do the rest of the things.

  Jeet Banerjee

  Team, Waiting, Important

  Source: theimarketingcafe.com

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• Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.

  Angela Davis

  Reading, Leader, Police

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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