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The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
I believe that teaching is one of the most noble professions and it's no easy task to shape the minds of the next generation.
It takes locking in on the task at hand and honing in on what you need to do in order to be successful in the NBA postseason.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
I think you can lose yourself in any creative activity - if you enjoy your job or enjoy a task, you can lose yourself in that.
It was my task to train hard and respect my team-mates all the time I wasn't playing or was on the bench, so I hope I did that.
The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.
You have to listen to the anthems, allow the emotion to come, but then need to snap back into the match and your specific task.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.
It is an extremely difficult task to make an entertaining movie, which is completely aesthetic and you can watch again and again.
Too often, U.N. peacekeepers face an impossible task in countries that are still at war and where there is no real peace to keep.
I wanted to make films since I was young. My background had nothing to do with anything creative, so it seemed an impossible task.
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.
I finished my university studies with classical music while being in a successful metal band, but that was not an easy task at all.
Your primary job is to be a football player, and you've got to accomplish that task before you go out and do anything else, really.
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
Our mission and task has always been to find a pragmatic balance among competing interests that will serve the greatest common good.
Explaining to my children, especially my daughter, that I will be dressed as a woman, and will be playing a eunuch was a tough task.
Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.
It is a challenging task to adapt a book to screen presentation and you will not be able to satisfy those who read the classic novel.
Music industry is a very competitive field, and one has to continuously entertain and excite the audience, which is a difficult task.
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a task itself.
In its early days, Trump's presidency ought to be viewed as the arduous start to the complicated task of draining the Washington swamp.
Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.
Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
I went to the U.S. to start my modeling career at a very young age. So, venturing into films and handling the pressure isn't a big task.
There was a task I had done in 'Khatron Ke Khiladi' where I had to put live worms into my mouth as part of the task. It was quite gross.
In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.
To destroy the Islamic State, you have to fix Syria. You have to look at the reasons that created the Islamic State. This is a huge task.
There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.
The crafting of lyrics is really a task, and when it comes to street culture, I don't feel like anyone else articulates it better than me.
To make a movie about someone who is thinking and writing is scary. There's no big love story, no action, no drama. It's not an easy task.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.
I worked hard at whatever task I was given and embraced leadership opportunities, whether as a crossing guard, an altar boy, or a general.
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
A lot of times, I go and face the top receiver, and that's a task... it comes with the territory, and I never back down from that challenge.
The new Pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.