"When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value."
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"If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial."
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"The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force."
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"I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one."
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"Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries."
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"How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here."
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"What is the hardest task in the world? To think."
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"Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness."
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"Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens."
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"To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished."
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"When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done."
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"When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned."
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"Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans."
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"Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation."
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"The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past."
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"Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?"
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"This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks."
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"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."
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"Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light."
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"The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task."
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