I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
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The number one factor driving the AGV industry is the cost of personnel. They're not necessarily replacing existing workers. They're doing some tasks that people used to do so a company can expand without adding staff.
Dwight Williams
Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.
Loren Eiseley
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.
Baltasar Gracian
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
John Foster Dulles
The provisions allow 11 different tasks that Idaho Fish and Game and the state will be responsible for, eight of those 11 involve killing wolves.
Suzanne Stone
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
Robert Townsend
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillip Brooks
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
Phillips Brooks
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
These findings have important implications for education and industry, where people are often asked to work in groups on tasks that aren't particularly motivating or interesting.
Ryan Johnson
One of the most difficult tasks for the educated and sophisticated mind is to recognize that some clichés are also important truths.
Robertson Davies
The Federation Council will keep an eye on the law?s implementation and effectiveness and whether it matches the set tasks.
Sergei Mironov
We're done with our tasks on the expedition.
Sergei Krikalev
The more you take manually performed bank tasks and automate them, the more efficient it's going to be and the costs are going to go down.
James Shelton
The tasks themselves are not overly challenging. We have not trained them in this exact sequence, but they [require] very generic skills.
Anna Jarvis
That way, you each get to play to your strengths. Men are more willing to do tasks they are good at.
Gladeana Mcmahon
The EC does not have adequate time to complete all the preparatory tasks including the voter list before the next parliamentary election.
Munsef Ali
This is not what most people think of as a typical contract, with sealed bids for a very specific job and a one-time, specific amount of money. These are task-order contracts. What we basically are awarding the big contracts for is someone's ability to do a lot of different kinds of tasks.
Jim Pogue
Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
Viktor Frankl
As people start to use their PCs more, they start to identify ways in which they want to use peripherals for different tasks.
Tom Gibbon
Ministers have a wide margin to carry out the tasks given to them by the executive and consult with whoever they need to.
Ruben Aguilar
We've made it clear that this is not the start of a major conflict, but certainly our forces are ready, they are prepared and they will take on the tasks that assigned to them.
Geoff Hoon
The only thing they can do is very rudimentary tasks like finding a point on a map.
Stephane Baldi
We really think it's one of the biggest updates to IE in the past decade. [We] really listened to what our customers were saying and focused on three areas: security, making the tasks they do easier, and improving the platform for developers.
Margaret Cobb
The congress's tasks are to review the implementation of the resolutions of the 9th party congress and decide orientations and missions for developing the country in the coming time.
Nong Duc Manh
I've been shelling out food and doing rather menial tasks to assist the crew and give them more time for their other work.
Dennis Tito
Intuit is committed to helping solve consumer health care issues. We've been studying the industry for more than three years and by working with leading companies in the industry, we believe we can make a profound impact on people's lives. Our goal is to take complex health care tasks and make solutions so profound; people cannot imagine going back to the old way.
Dan Levin
Having children will just infinitely multiply the number of appointments and tasks that I have to keep track of during the day.
Thekla Fischer
A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
William Booth
Microsoft has made a number of fixes to the previous version of their CRM software, including putting all of the tasks in a single account, ... This version makes it much easier for companies to access the information they need.
Sheryl Kingstone
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
Phillips Brooks
Very simple tasks -- those that require only one button -- really don't elevate crash risks at all.
Tom Dingus
Each one would measure about 1.5cm by 3 cm. They were designed to be complete robots, with different kinds of actuators for gripping, cell manipulation, and so on. Each one would be wireless, with lots of electronics on board, and an infrared control system — rather like a TV remote, but two-way in this case. They would be able to cooperate together on a range of tasks.
Joerg Seyfried
I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn a lesson.
George Washington Carver
There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks.
David Lloyd George
Basically, each day is fresh to me. I mean that I look at the tasks set before me at the beginning of each day, and the checklist is brand new without the stresses of the overall workload.
Steven Arnold
One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others.
Edward L. Flom
The research team was surprised to find out more than 50 percent of four-year students were not in the proficient category and 75 percent of the two-year students were not. The proficient category does involve some of the more complex literacy tasks, but some that we would expect them to do.
Stephane Baldi
One of the issues nowadays is that if people don't work out into old age, there can be deterioration of muscles. Besides the decline in muscle mass, there are also problems with balance, which we addressed as well with coordination tasks, so yeah, it's this universal benefit.
Ross Andel
War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.
Scott Nearing
Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.
Jackie Joyner Kersee
We're talking about communities where they have not even turned on the lights, communities where they have not even picked up the trash. Now those are physical things that it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out. But somehow those tasks have not been accomplished.
Vincent Sylvain
One of the challenges in the past was that the WMS would have to send big batches of orders to the middleware. The middleware then assigns the tasks to the voice system, and reports back to the WMS about five minutes later.
Chris Heim
They've built a little over 30 schools, they're working with the coalition training the Iraqi army, they're doing border security, they're doing a little bit of everything. There's just a myriad of different tasks they're doing over there.
Randy Harris
Automated analysis is probably the better way to figure out what Web sites are hostile. Robots are just staggeringly more efficient at these tasks.
Ben Edelman
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
Pierre Curie
The T1 addresses this issue as a massively threaded processor that can handle more tasks on a single piece of silicon. Customers can now do a lot more without adding hardware.
Fadi Azhari
We are very pleased to have Webster Bank N.A. as one of our early adopters for our packaged contract management solution built on Hummingbird Enterprise. With Hummingbird Enterprise for contract management in place, Webster is automating most of the contract management tasks, improving business efficiency and reducing risk to the financial institution, and to its customers.
Barry Litwin
The largest challenge is just getting out the door on time and coming back in. The tasks themselves are not overly challenging. So, overall, the biggest challenge will be just executing the overall EVA day timeline.
Anna Jarvis
Our emphasis has not been on measuring the tasks we've automated to date.
Mary Buckley
This could be one of the biggest tasks we're going to undertake. I don't mind telling you that it scares the daylights out of me.
Robert Higgins
In cases where you're trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that's not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, ... If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they're not doing just as well but maybe better.
Alan Young
The device would allow military divers to swim in a straight line, in a search pattern or to a particular location -- tasks that are difficult in conditions of limited visibility.
Jan Walker
The Glades County School District Maintenance Team, led by Al Brown has also played a vital role in the completion of the project. In an effort to keep costs down, the maintenance department took on several tasks in the project instead of bidding them out to a sub contractor.
Scott Bass
The billing practices of the law firms and expert witnesses made it likely that billing attorneys for the law firms and the experts who issued invoices did not know how much time was being spent for any particular task or how much money was being charged to perform those tasks.
Scott Hansen
People don't like having to do tasks by themselves -- especially housework. Rather than doing chores separately, it can be a much more positive experience when families do them at the same time.
Barbara Schneider
Some of the NGOs receiving funds from the commission describe on their Web site one of their main tasks as 'lobbying the commission.
Siim Kallas
We pride ourselves on empowering ordinary citizens to be the Sierra Club where they live. In essence we're asking local leaders to be members of boards of directors in local organizations and to run them. We're asking them to take on administrative tasks, which has to come with the territory of being a leader, but it's not something that they initially got involved with the Sierra Club to do.
Greg Casini
Self-service can help retailers better manage staff, especially during peak times. With self-checkout, store personnel can be redirected onto the floor to provide more product information, sales assistance and shelf restocking -- tasks that help contribute to improved levels of customer satisfaction.
Patrick Leonard
It is commonplace for private counsel to retain commercial investigative services to perform legal and appropriate tasks to assist in the defense of a client. Public officials deserve, and from these two law firms will receive, a no less vigorous defense than private citizens under similar circumstances.
Robert F. Bennett
Instead of viewing tasks that require activity as a chore or a bother, we should view it as an opportunity.
Dr. Harvey Simon
Even things like dressing, cleaning themselves, eating, handling a knife and fork are difficult tasks. For the staff and also for the patients, it's a stage of the disease where you have to support them a lot with their failing capacities.
Bengt Winblad
We need to breach those levees to let the water out of the system. We've got many tasks going at once on these situations.
Walter Baumy
Everyone said, 'Oh my God,' or whatever. He was very, very logical. What he's been doing is funnel all the information, prioritize the tasks.
Greg Meffert
All of the pieces, or different tasks (in the grant), are all things that are going to help us do a better job of managing the resources in Humboldt Bay.
David Hull
We also have an advantage in the intuitiveness of all of our software. Everything from Mac OS X Server Admin and Server Monitor all the way to ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) make the tasks that people have to do a lot easier.
Alex Grossman
We help companies with managing their features, defects, issues, tasks and tests as they flow through an agile life cycle.
Robert Holler
Our producers were tasked with finding the best and brightest the academic engineering world has to offer for the tasks at hand. Stanford is among the top engineering programs worldwide and therefore was a natural fit.
David Doyle
I'm very, very proud of the crew, ... I think this is going to be more representative of what the EVAs are going to be like in the future where the crew is asked to do tasks that they haven't looked at extensively preflight.
Keith Johnson
Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.
James Thorpe
His experience and outstanding personal qualities make him ideally qualified to lead the U.N. in tackling the many urgent tasks which it currently faces.
Malcolm Rifkind
A great deal of work still remains for getting EUV mask blanks ready for manufacturing, but our cleaning methodology has removed another barrier. We are well positioned for the tasks ahead.
David Krick
There will probably be some job loss, but I think it will be less than what people think. There is always a need for more talent and human intervention even when tasks are automated.
Stephen Elliot
The team vigorously participated in international rescue tasks and gave quick response and made remarkable achievements in the rescue work, fully illustrating China's important role in international humanitarian affairs and further demonstrated that China is a responsible country in the international society.
Hui Liangyu
They need more personnel and they need more assets, ... Not only have they acquired more tasks, but the order and magnitude of those tasks is multiplying exponentially.
William Delahunt
When you hire someone to do tasks that you dislike, that employee really has you over a barrel.
Mark Goulston
With our 10g release, we focused on making the Oracle Database easier to install, deploy, and manage as well as easier for developers to use. Oracle SQL Developer offers database developers everything they need to productively tackle their coding and debugging tasks more effectively. Oracle Database customers will benefit in terms of both cost savings and increased developer productivity.
Andrew Mendelsohn
Unfortunately, our tests suggest that the remarkable results of Apple's published tests aren't reflected in most of the real-world applications we tested. Based on our initial tests, the new Core-Duo-based iMac seems to be 10-20 per cent percent faster than its predecessor when it comes to native applications, with some select tasks showing improvement above and beyond that.
Jason Snell
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.
Thomas Nagel
The key thing is that there will be increasing pressure for users to automate tasks. The long-term goal is to standardize business processes and it's not a one- or two-year journey—it's multiple years.
Stephen Elliot
There are times when I find I still need to break down simple tasks to help them process information. It's not that they are not bright, it is that they process that information differently.
Sue Leibold
Certain tasks become automatic and don't require your attention, like walking or driving, so that you can easily carry on a complicated conversation while driving. But you probably wouldn't be able to do this if you just learned how to drive.
Bosco Tjan
I feel great responsibility when I consider the tasks ahead - the renewal of our party and our road to power.
Ichiro Ozawa
We're ready to go home. We have accomplished all our tasks, we are happy.
Valery Tokarev
They've had some folks with special needs they were working on helping. They asked to stay open a few more days in order to complete those tasks.
Nedra Turney
For example, in some cases we have segregated employee tasks. You don't want people to have the ability to order goods and adjust inventory because that prompts the potential for someone to create fraud.
Melanie Moody
Everything in Haiti is broken and everything needs fixing. One of the most immediate tasks is reconciliation and dialogue among Haitians.
Robert Maguire
It is very important that each person knows what they are supposed to be doing, their personal tasks, ... Defects are assigned to people in a specific order for completion. The dashboard and flowcharts allow management to see our progress in real time and communicate progress to our senior management.
Tim Walker
Linux has been limited to the edge of the network for tasks like Web servers . But now we are seeing it gain stature and become part of the server network.
Simon Yates
The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.
Dr. Richard Selzer
The biggest difference is that the Core version is directed to a different population of students. It measures the same types of skills as the advanced version, but the tasks are slightly less complex and there is less of a reading load.
Terry Egan
The small male advantage in IQ is therefore likely to be of most significance for tasks of high complexity, such as complex problem solving in mathematics, engineering and physics, and in other areas of high spatial ability.
Paul Irwing
This adds to the growing evidence that sleep deprivation among medical residents significantly impairs their ability to perform, although it is important to note that we did not assess performance on specific medical tasks.
J. Todd Arnedt
There is an emphasis now on developing high-performance schools, and part of that will be to measure how changes in indoor air quality improve the performance of children. By studying how emissions from normal furnishings affect children performing classroom tasks, you can estimate what might happen if you reduce the emissions.
Charlene Bayer
The air crew were performing their tasks diligently and in a controlled fashion.
Michael Slattery
We are ready to go home. We accomplished all of our tasks. We are happy, and we feel good.
Valery Tokarev
This overall process could be accomplished within the next 12 months. Some of the tasks can be accomplished in-house and the entire process can proceed together.
Collin Coles
We have a sense here at the foundation that we're building momentum. One of our tasks is building towards a comprehensive campaign for the university, so we're encouraged that we're making progress as we head into the next chapter.
Laura Wilbanks
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham
By organizing our core business into individual business units, there has been duplication of tasks and responsibilities that have not been supported by our sales growth. By restructuring our organization into functional areas, not only will we be more efficient, we will also be much more effective.
David Dyer
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Isaac Watts
The idea is to make desktop management less complex by providing a single database for handling system maintenance, migration, and patch-update tasks.
Allan Andersen
Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.
Evelyn Underhill
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
Eugene Debs
The steering committee meetings kind of overlap with the tasks.
Eric Teitelman
The results jumped out at us. Sometimes males and females would perform the same tasks and show different brain activation. And sometimes they would perform different tasks and show the same brain activation.
Emily Bell
Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5-year-old Boston children.
Elizabeth Spelke
A lot of children find symbolic arithmetic quite difficult and tedious, yet the children loved our tasks. They were games, the children were very happy to play them, and they were also they were good at them.
Elizabeth Spelke
Each gender may be innately better at certain tasks, but that doesn't mean that they aren't capable of trying any task.
Elizabeth Lonsdorf
It is a mathematical model of computation that is defined by a mathematical set of rules. By specifying different rules, you get different tasks.
Ehud Shapiro
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
Edward Tufte
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