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"Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life."
"The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly."
"The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant."
"Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others."
"The task is not just to understand the world but to change it."
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"No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished."
"Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform."
"Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."
"I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass."
"Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive."
"A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all."
"Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight."
"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."
"What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent."
"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."
"Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day."
"What is usually called 'intelligence' refers to the linguistic and logical capacities that are valued in certain kinds of school and for certain school-like tasks. It leaves little if any room for spatial intelligence, personal intelligences, musical intelligence, etc."
"The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis."
"To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love."
"Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved."
"It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them."
"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
"Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation."
"The task is not done. The journey is not complete. We can and we must do more."
"Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!"
