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I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.
Amelia Earhart
Pilot
Trouble
Think
Corner
Pulse
Machine
About
He
Part
Feels
Course
Around
Been
His
Hand
Task
Often
Just
Anything
Then
Asked
Flies
Moment
Thinks
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew Carnegie
Wise
Difficult
Resolved
Distribution
More
Begin
Accumulate
Task
Infinitely
Stop
Serious
Difficult Task
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Arthur Henderson
Confidence
Action
Carefully
Despair
Consider
Our
Address
Mood
Ourselves
Haste
Must
Take
Instead
Without
Survey
Quiet
Task
Common
Sober
Pause
Then
Us
Therefore
Let Us
Resolution
Position
The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.
Jimmy Reid
Life
Democracy
Trust
People
Path
Power
Difficult
Ease
Those
Constant
Only
Make
Exercise
How
Govern
Task
Hold
Them
Vigilance
Who
Media
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Karen Blixen
Work
Time
Day
Great
You
Every Day
Impossible
Will
Difficult
Every
Something
Finish
Only
Almost
Perhaps
Itself
Task
Little
Suddenly
Difficult Task
It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
Karl Barth
God
Together
Bach
About
Angels
Only
Sure
Am
Praising
Go
However
Task
May
Mozart
Play
Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
Naomi Wolf
Best
Great
Morning
Become
Great American
Has-Been
Promising
City
Fact
Since
Hill
Cliche
Fake
Reagan
Tradition
Been
Optimism
Task
America
American
In Fact
Which
The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.
Steven Biko
Happiness
Oppressor
State
Liberation
Only
Sees
Never
Tension
Also
His
Exist
Oppressed
Truly
Task
Revolutionary
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Abraham Lincoln
Great
Cause
Before
Increased
Gave
Honored
Rather
Remaining
Take
Dead
Devotion
Task
Which
Us
Full
Dedicated
Measure
Here
Last
The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.
Adam Weishaupt
First
Young
Members
Must
Task
Form
Therefore
Association
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Alan Gregg
Adversity
Experience
Prosperity
Face
Long
Fine
Long Experience
Had
Tradition
Surviving
Task
Human
Which
Little
Race
Human Race
Now
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
Barbara Deming
Change
Anger
Determination
Affliction
Revolution
Think
Our
Definition
About
Give
Fact
Could
Course
Task
In Fact
Bring
Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.
Cher
Man
Women
World
Control
Difficult
Think
Total
Some
Taking
Mess
Parts
Because
Making
Yes
Task
Want
Chipping
Away
Right
Difficult Task
You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond.
Debbie Reynolds
Best
Never Give Up
You
Ability
Give
Never
Beyond
Up
Task
Just
Your
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
Denis Diderot
Music
Age
Old
Old Age
Painting
Say
Temperament
Poetry
Excellence
Superstition
Allowed
Perform
Goodbye
Task
Human
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
Donald Knuth
Attitude
Change
Construction
Programs
Our
Rather
Computer
Main
Instead
Concentrate
Traditional
Task
Human
Want
Human Beings
Explaining
Us
Beings
Let Us
Imagining
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
Eberhard Arnold
God
Mind
Thought
Every
Our
Completion
Recognize
Toward
Child
Task
Help
There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
George W. Bush
Country
Our
Protecting
Than
Task
Bigger
Homeland
The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.
Giorgio Agamben
Terrorism
Thought
Become
State
Sole
Security
Risk
More
Bears
Within
Always
Source
Provoked
Task
Essential
Legitimacy
Which
Organism
Fragile
Life is not safe, and so our task is not to promise our kids there will be no turbulence. It's to assure them that when the turbulence comes, we will all hold hands and get through it together.
Glennon Doyle Melton
Life
Together
Will
Assure
Our
Kids
Promise
Through
Safe
Task
Get
Hands
Hold
Turbulence
Them
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James
Work
Art
Dark
Madness
Passion
Rest
Doubt
Our
Give
Task
I see my task as serving the majority of people. The question is, how do you find out what they want, how best to serve them? My answer is to stay close to ordinary people because, at heart, I am one of them.
Ingvar Kamprad
Best
You
Heart
People
Out
Find
Stay
See
Majority
Because
Answer
How
Am
Question
Close
Task
Want
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Them
Serve
Serving
When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.
Jerry Seinfeld
Someone
Small
Environment
Beautifully
Does
Affected
Task
Whole
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan
Leadership
Humanity
Put
Greatness
Task
Elicit
Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.
Michael Porter
Engineer
Think
Thinking
Broad
Way
Fuzzy
Some
Pretty
About
Always
How
Task
Get
Tasks
Done
Unfortunately
Funky
You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has been practicing dictatorship, is an authoritarian system, it's a bunch of military people - the task of changing Egypt into a second republic, a new Egypt with democracy, freedom, rights, etc.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Freedom
Democracy
You
Rights
People
Dictatorship
Military
Changing
System
Has-Been
Charge
Outgoing
Give
New
Practicing
Been
Chicken
Bunch
Authoritarian
Task
Get
Egypt
Which
Regime
Republic
Etc
Second
Fox
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