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

  País, Guerra, Medios de comunicación

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• Nunca había asistido a un desfile de moda antes de ir al de Burberry el mes pasado. Fue un espectáculo extraordinario. Estaba increíblemente verde y no tenía ni idea de lo que supone. También siento un nuevo respeto por las modelos, porque están tan cerca de la primera fila y deben de estar muy cohibidas.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Fashion, Self, Ideas

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• Mi primera empresa en el camino de la experimentación científica fue en el campo de la economía y la psicología.

  Simon Newcomb

  Psychology, Way, Fields

  Simon Newcomb (1903). "Las reminiscencias de un astrónomo", 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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• [Postularse para Presidente es] física, emocional, mental y espiritualmente la empresa más exigente que puedo imaginar, a menos que sea la Tercera Guerra Mundial".

  Walter F. Mondale

  Correr, Guerra, Política

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

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Unattainable, Photographer

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). "Atreverse a mirar: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field", University Of Chicago Press

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• Los dos grandes partidos políticos de la nación han existido con el propósito, cada uno de acuerdo con sus propios principios, de comprometerse a servir los intereses de toda la nación. Sus miembros del Congreso son elegidos con ese gran fin.

  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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• Si puedes seguir intentándolo después de tres fracasos en una empresa determinada, puedes considerarte "sospechoso" como líder potencial en la ocupación elegida. Si puedes seguir intentándolo después de una docena de fracasos, la semilla de un genio está germinando en tu alma.

  Napoleon Hill

  Líder, Alma, Intento

  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

  Fuente: 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

  Arte, Escritura, 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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• Nadie podría convertirse en un líder eficaz o tomar la iniciativa en una gran empresa sin creer en sí mismo.

  Napoleon Hill

  Leader, Belief, Initiative

  Napoleon Hill (2008). "La ley del éxito: 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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• Es una empresa seria y sí, necesitamos más vallas y más tecnología, y necesitamos más control fronterizo. Y, por cierto, necesitamos una mejor cooperación con las fuerzas de seguridad locales. Hay 800.000 policías de ronda, que deberían estar formados para ser los ojos y los oídos de las fuerzas del orden tanto en lo que respecta a la amenaza terrorista como a la inmigración.

  Jeb Bush

  Ojo, Tecnología, Derecho

  "Transcripción comentada del 5º debate republicano: Quién dijo qué y qué significó". Debate presidencial de 2016 en Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. 15 de diciembre de 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.

  Heródoto

  Loss, Errors, Begets

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• Los elogios que recibo no me cambian, porque se los transmito a Dios. Camino porque Dios me da la fuerza para caminar, vivo porque Dios me da el suministro para vivir, hablo porque Dios me da las palabras para hablar. Todo lo que hice fue rendir mi voluntad a la voluntad de Dios. Toda mi vida me ha preparado para esta empresa. Esta es mi llamada. Esta es mi vocación. Esto es lo que debo hacer. No podría ser feliz haciendo otra cosa.

  Peregrino de la paz

  Giving, Doe, Calling

  Peregrina de la Paz (1992). "Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words", p.127, Amigos de Peregrina de la Paz.

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