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• Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Healing, Our World

  "The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is". Book by N. T. Wright, 1999.

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• The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Faithful, Church

  J. I. Packer (2001). “Concise Theology: A Guide to Historic Christian Beliefs”, p.194, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness. The task of education must be to stimulate and unleash the wisdom that lies dormant in the lives of all young people. This is not a forced process, like pressing something into a preformed mold, but rather drawing out the potential which exists within.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Lying, Drawing, People

  Daisaku Ikeda (2010). “Soka Education: For the Happiness of the Individual”, p.151, Middleway Press

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• What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

  Bill Parcells

  Past, Hands, People

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• The task of life is to face sacred moments.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Sacred, Faces, Life Is

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• Our task is to educate the human being in such a way that he or she can bring to expression in the right way that which is living in the whole human being, and on the other side that which puts him/her into the world in the right way.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Expression, World, Way

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• Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.

  Tony La Russa

  Pressure, Unprepared

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• Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Important, Use, Alive

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World”, p.39, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

  John Medina

  Errors, Matter, Study

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• The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time…To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing information-rich inputs simultaneously…Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

  John Medina

  Errors, Brain, Attention

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• Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

  Arnold Bennett

  Procrastination, Cost, Achieve

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• To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant educational task. The social and economic ideas that gave birth to the transfer system must be discredited and replaced with old values of individual independence and self-reliance. The social philosophy of individual freedom and unhampered private property must again be our guiding light.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Educational, Philosophy, Self

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.

  Diane Lane

  Movie, Mother, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.

  Ben Stiller

  Able, Speed, Hours

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• A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

  Val Kilmer

  Starting Over, Acting, Impossible

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• If you are already an awakened soul,
  Then you must realise
  That God has already given you
  A supreme task to perform:
  He wants you to work
  For His Vision's world-blossoms.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Soul, Vision, World

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• As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.

  George Blake

  Korea, Kgb, Trying

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• One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, Philosophy, Cutting

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• Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.

  Brent L. Top

  Balance, Demand, Mortality

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• It is easy to rationalize that we don't have time to exercise. Not so. Ultimately, our improved health through exercise will provide us more time and energy to accomplish other tasks. We can usually do about whatever we want to-if we want to badly enough.

  Joe J. Christensen

  Exercise, Energy, Want

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• Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Home, Debt, Financial

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• Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Wise, Self, Generosity

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• Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Character

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• Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this ‘castrated writing’ - I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.

  Murong Xuecun

  Writing, Cutting, Skills

  "Words We Can Use, and Those We Can Not". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2011.

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• This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.

  Eugene Schwartz

  Desire, Mass, Direct

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