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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.


Niels Bohr


#concerns #find #how #nature #out

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.


Julius Erving


#effort #else #faced #find #going

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.


Tom Brady


#around #busy #e-mails #house #kids

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.


Arthur Helps


#achieve #certain #confidence #costs #decided

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.


Martin Van Buren


#arduous #confided #discharged #equal #expect

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.


William Feather


#daily #each #emergencies #go #meet

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.


Andrew Carnegie


#difficult #difficult task #distribution #i #infinitely

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.


Lion Feuchtwanger


#bear #between #clear #connection #establishing

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.


John Cheever


#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#garden #heaven #human #human life #life






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