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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I'd try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner - in 15 minutes flat.

Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems.

I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything.

To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.

If I was as relaxed as what I perceived myself to be, I would not be able to multi-task the way I multi-task.

I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

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.

One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.

One of the most important tasks of the United States House of Representatives is to pass a budget resolution.

One of the challenges in the past was that the WMS would have to send big batches of orders to the middleware. The middleware then assigns the tasks to the voice system, and reports back to the WMS about five minutes later.

On the planet, over 90 percent of the population 45 years and older have difficulty reading, but their distance vision is OK. The current bifocal lenses are divided ... so when people are driving they are not using the bifocal lens. Our lens, with the focusing power, allows them to use the whole lens for different vision tasks at the same time.

I was taught by my father, who could not read, that reading is the basis of all education. I learned this painful lesson as I watched him suffer through those simple tasks that all of us who can read take for granted. His inability to read affected every aspect of his life, and mine.

Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia - even during times of stress and fatigue.

Love is not the big acts of confirmation we make, but the continuous little tasks we do for someone else. True love is where you don't have to be reminded of the promises or commitments you make to a person, but where loving them becomes a piece of you.

There are times when I find I still need to break down simple tasks to help them process information. It's not that they are not bright, it is that they process that information differently.

When you come in the door you're actually entering into the first of 11 environments within the home. In the dining room, for example, visitors will witness the wonders of digital artwork and music, while in the kitchen they'll learn how connected appliances simplify daily tasks and entertainment, lighting and climate can all be controlled with the touch of a button.

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

Ministers have a wide margin to carry out the tasks given to them by the executive and consult with whoever they need to.

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

Self-service can help retailers better manage staff, especially during peak times. With self-checkout, store personnel can be redirected onto the floor to provide more product information, sales assistance and shelf restocking -- tasks that help contribute to improved levels of customer satisfaction.

Simply put, what the United Nations wants is what the U.S. also wants: a reformed United Nations that is effective, efficient, leaner and relevant to the tasks that member states want to set for us, ... The world has changed and we have to change, we have to adapt and I have given my commitment to the president that I will pursue reforms.

She's just able to accomplish tasks and whatever's in her way, she's able to break through it and get it done.

The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

I don't think you would see a difference in the performance of normal everyday tasks where you don't need to learn something new,

China and Russia are both shouldering tasks to improve living standards and reach national prosperity.

China is still a developing country with a myriad of tasks and challenges.

I have always worked hard, and seeing so many Icelanders make tremendous efforts to cope with difficult tasks and decisions inspires me.

We talk about the tasks of grief. Emotionally, we have to acknowledge the loss. The second task is to experience the pain. What happens when you are going through a trial, you are still in the pain. Hearing the graphic testimony is like taking a razor blade and slitting open a scar. Initially, with a shocking death like that, you go numb right away, and a year later, you hear the details, you are more aware.

If the federal government did their job, citizens would not be taking the law into their own hands. I'm sympathetic to their goals, but would prefer security tasks be handled by professionals.

Historically, the parent and child relationship is a complicated one on many levels--particularly as parents become ill and their roles reverse. This transition is understandably wrought with stress as the parent gradually, and often reluctantly, relinquishes power to the child. The perceptions of both regarding the parent's ability to manage on their own and of what it takes to get various tasks done are bound to differ. It's inevitable--the discrepancies bear this out.

I feel great responsibility when I consider the tasks ahead - the renewal of our party and our road to power.

Having children will just infinitely multiply the number of appointments and tasks that I have to keep track of during the day,

The purpose of this is to coordinate such tasks which would make it possible to break the situation, which makes special threat to the security and stability to Europe, and to direct the events ... towards a peaceful settlement,

Labor supports the Productivity Commission's recommendation with regard to the delegation of tasks and ensuring that the MBS (Medicare Benefits Schedule) provides adequate incentives for this to happen.

Linux has been limited to the edge of the network for tasks like Web servers . But now we are seeing it gain stature and become part of the server network.

Some of the NGOs receiving funds from the commission describe on their Web site one of their main tasks as 'lobbying the commission.

Start with the simple tasks in restoring a relationship. Just communicating is a good first step.

Paring down an entire household to just a few precious and necessary items is a daunting task. Even the most supportive families find their schedules or out-of-town location won?t allow them to manage the job alone. Without a system, tasks such as organizing health insurance claims, maintaining vital records, or creating an inventory of assets that would be needed in case of fire, loss or theft can seem overwhelming.

NASA cannot carry out all the tasks currently on its plate without significantly more money.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Our challenge to the children is simple: solve an everyday problem by creating a muscle-powered tool. Their response is extraordinary - with tools that do everything from making household tasks easier, to improving the lives of the young, disabled or elderly.

Our producers were tasked with finding the best and brightest the academic engineering world has to offer for the tasks at hand. Stanford is among the top engineering programs worldwide and therefore was a natural fit.

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

Unfortunately, our tests suggest that the remarkable results of Apple's published tests aren't reflected in most of the real-world applications we tested. Based on our initial tests, the new Core-Duo-based iMac seems to be 10-20 per cent percent faster than its predecessor when it comes to native applications, with some select tasks showing improvement above and beyond that.

Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.

Microsoft has made a number of fixes to the previous version of their CRM software, including putting all of the tasks in a single account, ... This version makes it much easier for companies to access the information they need.

The air crew were performing their tasks diligently and in a controlled fashion.

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.

As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines and farms, it is one of the foremost tasks of good government to remove all obstacles that hinder the accumulation and investment of new capital.

Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

We have automated routine tasks and reduced the time required for troubleshooting, thereby increasing efficiency.

We've made it clear that this is not the start of a major conflict, but certainly our forces are ready, they are prepared and they will take on the tasks that assigned to them,

Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task...

The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love.

We are hoping in Windows Vista to dramatically drive this number down so most tasks that users need to complete, they'll be able to compete as standard users. User account control will be one of the most valuable areas for enterprises.

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.