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"People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful." »Unknown
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"For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task" »Rainer Maria Rilke
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"Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled." »Willie Stone
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"Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it." »Joyce
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"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been." »Henry Kissinger
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"Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Man's main task is to give birth to himself." »Erich Fromm
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"And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'." »Phoebe Cary
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"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed." »Maria Montessori
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"To exert his power in doing good is man?s most glorious task." »Sophocles
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"The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed." »Charles De Gaulle
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"It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure." »Corrine Dewlow
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"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." »Erich Fromm
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"The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be." »Og Mandino
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"I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success." »Martin Van Buren, taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good." »Samuel Johnson
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"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men." »Joseph Conrad
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"The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men" »Henry B. Adams
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"The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them." »Rudolf Virchow
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"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task." »Diogenes
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"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one." »Alexander Pope
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"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one." »Alexander Pope
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"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." »Winston Churchill
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"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity." »Maria Montessori
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"It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours." »John F. Kennedy
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"It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind." »Robert Millikan
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"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best." »Theodore Isaac Rubin
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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." »Bruce Lee, During a television interview
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"I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind"." »Robert Millikan
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