Undertakings Quotes - Page 3

• Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Rearing A Child, Child Rearing

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.

  David Talbot

  Country, War, Media

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• I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Fashion, Self, Ideas

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• My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

  Simon Newcomb

  Psychology, Way, Fields

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.

  Graham Nelson

  Writing, Different, Resolution

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• The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict, would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose.

  Louis J. Halle

  Space, Views, Common Purpose

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• Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.

  Bill Kurtis

  Years, Doe, News

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• Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Giving Up, Persistence, Men

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• I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Imagination, Lag, Ruthlessness

  "Capitalism has learned to create host organisms". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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• [Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III

  Walter F. Mondale

  Running, War, Political

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• The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Unattainable, Photographer

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Party, Views, Two

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.348, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Secret, Nations

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• Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.

  George Will

  Sports, Religious, Greek

  George F. Will (2010). “Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

  Napoleon Hill

  Leader, Soul, Trying

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “You Can Work Your Own Miracles”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal

  George Dantzig

  Military, War, Moving

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• For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the feeling that by the possession of some potent doctrine, infallible leader or some new technique they have access to a source of irresistible power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Leader, Feelings

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds. It implies a very difficult undertaking: the necessity to think. And it implies the requirement to think out three separate, very hard problems: What is it you want to say? How are you going to say it? Have you really said it?

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Writing, Simple

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• It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact, I became particularly aware if the dangers of speculation ... It's so much easier than digging out the facts. You sit in your office and build a system. But with my training in biology, I felt this kind of undertaking precarious.

  Jean Piaget

  Philosophy, Teaching, Office

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• No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Leader, Belief, Initiative

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.192, Penguin

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• If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various countries and the many races of mankind, but the pleasures gained at the time do not counterbalance the evils.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Mean, Race

  Charles Darwin (2008). “The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.503, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is a serious undertaking and yes, we do need more fencing and we do need to use technology, and we do need more border control. And we need to have better cooperation by the way with local law enforcement. There are 800,000 cops on the beat, they ought to be trained to be the eyes and ears for law enforcement for the threat against terror as well as for immigration.

  Jeb Bush

  Eye, Technology, Law

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.

  Theodor Haecker

  Writing, Men, Giving

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• The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

  Herodotus

  Loss, Errors, Begets

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• Any praise I receive does not change me, for I pass it right along to God. I walk because God gives me strength to walk, I live because God gives me the supply to live, I speak because God gives me the words to speak. All I did was to surrender my will to God's will. My entire life has prepared me for this undertaking. This is my calling. This is my vocation. This is what I must be doing. I could not be happy doing anything else.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving, Doe, Calling

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.127, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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