I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I think you can go very far.
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary...
Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as the...
If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.
Seeking approval from others isn't what your destiny demands. Neither is it by any means one of your tasks on earth.
If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true
O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!
Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.
The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
I don't care who you are, the pressure is on to go to the next task immediately. What happened to the days of hanging out in the hammock all afternoon?
I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers.
The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.
So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.
