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The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.

The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me.

These findings have important implications for education and industry, where people are often asked to work in groups on tasks that aren't particularly motivating or interesting.

The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

Being true to one's duty is a mark of true disciples of the Lord and the children of God. Be valiant in your duty. Stay in step. Do not fail in your most important task, that of keeping your second estate. Be true to your duty, for it will bring you to God.

Bringing 17 crore people to the doors of the bank is a huge task and I commend all the bank officials for the same. It is not difficult to open a bank branch, it is difficult to get 17 crore people to open bank accounts.

It takes time to change established mindset. It is a difficult task. But we have five years. This is not about Modi... Modi is only one of its 1.2 billion people... This is a people's task.

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.

I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class structure, is making a mistake, and the task of those who are responsible for the conduct of the monarchical institution is to detach it from that class structure.

There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

God is not an encyclopedia whose task it is to satisfy our curiosity.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public good, except for in some cases a very small audience. This has become more and more clear in the last few years as academics have become so insular, often unwilling or unable to defend the university as a public good, in spite of the widespread attacks on academic freedom, the role of the university as a democratic public sphere, and the increasing reduction of knowledge to a saleable commodity, and students to customers.

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.

As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.

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.

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

They need more personnel and they need more assets, ... Not only have they acquired more tasks, but the order and magnitude of those tasks is multiplying exponentially.

It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

There is simply not enough money in NASA's budget to carry out all the tasks it's undertaking on the current schedule.

The more you take manually performed bank tasks and automate them, the more efficient it's going to be and the costs are going to go down,

For some emotions, such as anger, we see a dip in the ability to perform these tasks around puberty,

HCA needed a solution to automate administrative tasks at its facilities. Boston WorkStation has a proven track record of offering healthcare organizations a successful way to improve workflow efficiency through automation. One of HCA's corporate strategies is to employ industry-leading measures that enhance the performance of the company's local facilities. By using BWS, we are confident that HCA will continue to materially reduce administrative expenses and create greater productivity in the back office.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

Divine is the task to relieve pain

It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

How long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned?

The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.

The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture, which greatly facilitates the task of the fear-mongers and chauvinists, needs a very exact and nuanced diagnosis. I don't think that analogies from the totalitarian model, however suggestive, are sufficient.

Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list

My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.

When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's fault.

Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user's task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large.

Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.

Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry -- keep swinging at them.

Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done.

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything.

Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work slowly and consistently. Anthony Trollope, the nineteenth-century writer who managed to be a prolific novelist while also revolutionizing the British postal system, observed, “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity.

President Obama has announced a task force to review the tax codes. He's concerned there are too many loopholes and too many people manipulating the system to avoid paying taxes. And that's just in his administration.

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

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.

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

A couple's first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn’t be so inclined to jump up and strangle my grandmother.

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary participation of people who produce and create, live their lives freely within institutions they control, and with limited hierarchical structures, possibly none at all

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination.

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 idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.