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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin
Morning
Me
Joy
Coffee
Bird
Fire
Settled
Sun
Window
Through
Supported
Rays
Leaf
Accompanied
Walked
Escape
Task
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett
Find
Mess
Task
Artist
Form
Now
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life
Garden
Earth
Object
True
Task
Heaven
Human
Human Life
Play
Playground
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Morning
Earned
Some
Something
Sees
Attempted
Close
Begun
Task
Repose
Done
Each
Evening
Each Morning
Night
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius
Strength
Man
Own
Believe
Assume
Beyond
Also
Powers
Because
Within
Province
Task
Unequal
Anything
Your
Compass
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker
Change
Learning
People
Pressing
Abreast
Fact
Lifelong
Most
Learn
Accept
How
Task
Process
Teach
Now
Keeping
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Politics
Christian
Task
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
John Keats
Great
Me
You
Speak
Mine
Sees
He
Between
Lord
Task
Difference
Us
Describe
Hardest
Imagine
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill
Day
Slow
Single
Build
Destroy
Thoughtless
Single Day
Years
Laborious
Task
May
Act
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life
Man
Rest
Master
Furnish
Fine
He
Days
House
Builds
Repair
His
Task
Show
Keep
Now
Watch
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung
Man
Become
Press
Unconscious
Contents
Task
Upward
Conscious
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm
Psychic
Insecurity
Secure
Must
Able
Feel
Himself
Person
Task
Which
Tolerate
Set
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
Isaac Newton
Nature
You
Man
Age
Better
Rest
Difficult
Too
Others
One-Man
Come
Leave
Task
Any
After
Tis
Explain
Little
Much
Certainty
Even
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
Virgil
Death
Day
Dark
Hell
Down
Back
Air
Easy
Steps
Retrace
Climb
Go
Task
Upper
Again
Stand
Wide
Night
Gates
Rub
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
Albert Camus
Generation
World
Will
Mine
Consists
Destroying
Preventing
Feels
Perhaps
Knows
Greater
Itself
Reform
Task
Doubtless
Even
Each
Each Generation
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Brian Tracy
You
Will
Parent
Given
Feel
Blessings
Greatest
Accomplish
Goal
Task
Any
Children
Decide
Succeeded
Your
Raise
I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
C. V. Raman
Success
Hope
Me
You
Courage
Women
Men
Men And Women
Lose
Before
Young
Lying
Tell
Would
Only
Come
Like
Devotion
Courageous
Task
Front
Young Men
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.
Diogenes
Good
Needs
Man
Matter
Enemies
Good Friends
Latter
Ardent
Take
Him
Self-Preservation
Friends
Man Needs
Task
Former
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
President
Know
Task
Hardest
Right
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Sophocles
Good
Man
Good Man
Those
Misfortune
Task
Help
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.
Zygmunt Bauman
Service
Freedom
Lost
Sight
Something
Individual
Come
Task
Help
Sociology
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Time
Best
You
Problem
Matter
Every
About
Seem
More
No-One
Bottom
Learns
How
Than
Person
Task
May
Unimportant
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.
Daniel Goleman
Learning
People
Responsibility
Become
Community
Active
Changes
More
Both
Daunting
Individual
Mentors
Emotional
Participants
Major
Implies
Mission
Beyond
Involved
Schools
Go
Traditional
Task
Children
Literacy
Requires
Teachers
Helping
Socialize
Two
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Future
Obligation
Problem
Value
Values
Philosopher
Hierarchy
Solve
Determine
True
Sciences
Task
Which
Ground
Prepare
Now
Replacing traditional sources of energy completely with renewable energy is going to be a challenging task. However, by adding renewable energy to the grid and gradually increasing its contribution, we can realistically expect a future that is powered completely by green energy.
Tulsi Tanti
Future
Energy
Increasing
Adding
Powered
Renewable
Renewable Energy
Traditional
However
Sources
Replacing
Expect
Green
Task
Contribution
Gradually
Going
Grid
Realistically
Challenging
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.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You
Impossible
Difficult
Though
Facing
Take
Fail
Along
Moby
Moby Dick
Task
Going
After
Act
Sauce
Difficult Task
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