"Concentrate on your task."
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"It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom."
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"Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task."
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"The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves.""
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"When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally."
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"Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves."
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"Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves."
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"One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master."
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"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me."
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"Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian."
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"Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward."
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"Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching."
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"He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age."
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"Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function."
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"I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared."
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"To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe."
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"The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves."
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"I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion."
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"Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity."
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"We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them."
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