Tackling Quotes

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

Jon Kyl

Leadership, Children, Real

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An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Money, Hunger And Poverty, Important

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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Vince Lombardi

Football, Motivational Sports, Block

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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Barack Obama

Usa, People, Challenges

"Obama wins health care reform war". "PM" with Kim Landers, www.abc.net.au. March 22, 2010.

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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Vince Lombardi

Football, Motivational Sports, School

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Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable.

Jon Krakauer

Style, Important, Mountain

FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Nov 14, 2012

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If I feel like I am about to explode, I take a minute to evaluate what it is that I have on my plate, make a to-do list, and start tackling what I need to do, one step at a time.

Chelsea Krost

Steps, Needs, Lists

"Millennial Expert Chelsea Krost: Success, Social Media, and Unplugging". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Jobs, Colorado River, Rivers

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Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Naveen Jain

Block, Winning, Break Through

"10 Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2011.

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It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future. Only an America which has fully educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling the complex problems and perceiving the hidden dangers of the world in which we live. And only an America which is growing and prospering economically can sustain the worldwide defenses of freedom, while demonstrating to all concerned the opportunities of our system and society.

John F. Kennedy

Home, Opportunity, Practice

Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Jobs, Men, Order

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I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue.... It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that.... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.

Lee Hsien Loong

Heart, Israel, Iraq

"President Bush Welcomes Prime Minister Lee of Singapore to the White House". The White House Press Release, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 04, 2007.

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Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.

Ellen Willis

Real, Moving, Loss

"How Now, Iron Johns?". "The Nation", December 13, 1999.

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It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.

Bernard Lonergan

Vocabulary, Unity, Special

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I encourage everyone I know that whether it be in their workplace, whether it be in a political arena or within their own families, to do what their gut tells them to do. And that involves calling it like they see it and tackling the tasks that are at hand and not worrying so much what other people are thinking or saying about them.

Sarah Palin

Thinking, Hands, People

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.

Trinny Woodall

Self Worth, Thinking, Clothes

"MEN Reader Meets Trinny and Susannah". Interview with Helen Tither, www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.

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This is still a lot of blocking and tackling. I'm not seeing the kind of vision thing associated with a frothy market.

Jermichael Finley

Block, Vision, Kind

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Developed countries should support developing countries in tackling climate change. This not only is their responsibility, but also serves their long-term interests.

Hu Jintao

Country, Responsibility, Long

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My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year.

Ridley Pearson

Character, Heart, Issues

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Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.

Magnus

Moving, Kids, Keys

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In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.

Del Howison

Halloween, Topics, Gimmicks

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For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

Jeremy Piven

Climbing, Stage Actors, Records

Source: collider.com

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I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!

Claude Monet

Taken, Water, Done

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The fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise surrounding this government and the feeling that ministers are incapable of tackling serious issues.

Vince Cable

Government, Issues, Feelings

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I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour

Peter Hain

Successful, Thinking, Ideas

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