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"I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand."
"More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve."
"Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won."
"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."
"The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success."
"In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle."
"The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious."
"One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will."
"There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules"
"The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land."
"It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives."
"Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's."
"That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself."
"The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter."
"Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man."
"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
"Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance."
"The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as "to direct the thought of most of the world" - primarily progressive American intellectuals, who had to be mobilized to come to the aid of Britain during World War I."
"The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!"
"When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking."
