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One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.
Writing rules is not one of the more 'glamorous' aspects of working on games. It is a task that is, in general, more drudgery than glory.
I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.
If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
Regardless of how little time and work someone takes to perform a task, there has to be a more efficient and effective way to perform it.
Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.
Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.
Our law enforcement must have every tool necessary to find and disrupt terrorists at home and abroad. That's the task of the 21st century.
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.
It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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.
If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
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.
I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.
I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small tasks of a day's work and a day's caretaking.
To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true
It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.
No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.
Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker.
You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.
The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.
The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.
For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment.
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.
[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations.
The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.
Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.
Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that life has reserved for him.
When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.
The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.
I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn’t be so inclined to jump up and strangle my grandmother.
An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.