'Too many people think only about getting results. The key to success, however, is to focus on the specific task at hand and not to worry about results'.
Everyone wants success and to learn the key to success, Everyone wants to have a happy life, do meaningful work, enjoy a career and achieve financial independence. The above mentioned statement means attention on the details or a project rather than on the end product. Whenever we begin working on a specific task, many people will think about the end result and get distracted by the results the task may be able to produce, but the key success is to focus on the work at hand. I don't think that the advice offered in the statement is worth following. The central problem with this advice is that focusing attention completely on that task at hand without reference to how that task is related to the end product would be virtually impossible to do. The reason for this is simple. Without some reference to a goal we would have no idea of what task to perform in the first place. As a result, the various tasks we engage in would be somewhat random and in turn no matter how diligent and careful we were in performing them the likelihood of producing worthwhile or successful end products would be minimal. Some people say that focusing too much on results allows one to skip certain aspects in the process or make mistakes along the line. But this is not true. If any aspect in the process of skipped to achieve better results, than clearly that aspect was not needed to begin with. So to ensure good results one should take a balance approach to take the task at hand. By a balanced approach, I mean paying attention to both desired result and the specific task that are required to achieve it. Moreover, the order of the tasks is determined with reference to this result. So in my view, following this advice is more likely to produce unsuccessful results than successful ones.
He (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher. Plato was his teacher.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
Nicomachean Ethics
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred improbable possibilities.
Poetics
Man is by nature a political animal.
Poetics
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no Politics need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Poetics
Christopher Marlowe
He (1564-1593) was an English playwright and poet.
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Come live with me, and be my love. And we will all the pleasure prove, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. I That valley, groves, hills and tields, Woods or sleepy mountain yields.
The passionate shepherd to his love.
Edmund Burke
He (1729-1797) was an Irish born Whig politician and learned poet.
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Tyrants seldom want pretext.
Personal Letter to a National Assembly Member
Between crafts and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
Personal Letter to the Sheriff of Bristol.
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
Reflection on the Revolution in France
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Speech on the Middlesex Election
The people are the masters.
Speech, Hansar
Francis Bacon
He (1561-1626) was an English lawyer, courtier, philosopher and essayist.
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A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Of Friendship (Essay)
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Of Marriage and the Single Life
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Of Studies
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
Of Studies
Histories make men wise; poets witty; trie Of Studies mathematics subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Of Studies
A mixture of lie doth ever add pleasure
Of Truth
Opportunity makes a thief
Advice to the earth of Essex
Gladstone
He (1809-1998) was a Former British Prime Minister and Liberal politician.
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Justice delayed is justice denied
Justice hurried is justice buried
Legal Maxim
John Donne
He (1572 - 1631) was an English poet.
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If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
The Good Morrow
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus.
The Sun rising
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime
Nor; hours, days, months, which are the rags of time,
The Sun rising
She's all states, and all princes I Nothing else is.
The Sun rising
For; God's sake; hold your tongue, and Let me love.
The Canonization
Alexander Pope
He (1688-1744) was an 18th-century English poet.
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To err human; to forgive is' divine
An Essay on Criticism
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
A little learning is a dangerous thing
John Milton
He (1608-1674) was an English epic poet.
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Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven
Paradise Lost
….....This childhood shows the man,
Paradise Regained
As morning shows the daj
Just are the ways of god,
And justifiable to men;
I Unless there be who think not God at all
Samson Agonistes
Love quarrels oft in pleasing cqncordjend.
Samson Agonistes
A good book is trie precious life-blood of a master spirt,
Embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life.
Samson Agonistes
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue
Areopagitica
Freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Areopagitica
John Keats
He (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet.
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"Beauty is truth, truth is beauty"- That is all, Ye know on earth, and all you need to know.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter;
Ode on a Grecian Urn
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hernlock had drunk
Ode to a Nightingale
She dwells with Beauty-Beauty that must die;
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
Ode on Melancholy Endymion
Jean Jacques Rousseau
He (1712-1778) was a French philosopher and novelist.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains
Social Contract
Lord Byron
He (1788-1824) was an English Romantic poet.
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Sweet is revenge-especially to women
Don Juan
Pleasure's sin and sometimes sin's a pleasure
Don Juan
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart is woman's whole existence
Don Juan
Matthew Arnold
He (1822-1888) was a Victorian poet. "Dover Beach", "Rugby Chapel", "The Scholar Gipsy", Thirsis are his famous poems.
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The sea of faith was once, too at the full, and round earth's shore
Dover Beach
Love lends life a little grace
A few sad smiles;
Mycemius
Poetry is a criticism of life.
Arnold's view
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men
Sohrab and Rustum
Neil Armstrong
He (1930-2012) an American Astronaut, was first to land in the moon in the 21st July, 1969.
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That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
New York Times
Napoleon Bonaparte
He (1769-1821) was a Former French emperor and famous politician.
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The career open to the talents.
England is a nation of Shopkeepers
Give us good mothers and I shall give you good nation
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools
Percy Bysshe Shelley
He (1792-1822) was an English Romantic poet.
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I am daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursing of the sky.
The Cloud
If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Ode to the West Wind
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud,
I flat upon thorns of life! I bleed.
Ode to the West Wind
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest
To a Skylark
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world
A Defence of Poetry world
Robert Frost
He (1874-1963) was an American poet.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
on a Snowy Evening
Stopping by Woods
Good fences make good neighbours
Mending wall
S.T. Coleridge
He (1772-1834) was an English Romantic poet.
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Alone, alone, all, all alone
Alone on a wide, wide sea
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
Water, water, everywhere
Not a drop to drink
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
Thomas Gray
He (1716 - 1771) was an English poet.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
I And waste its sweetness on the desert air
Elegy Written in a country Churchyard
Socrates
He (469-399 B.C) was a Greek Philosopher.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorane
Plato "Apology"
The unexamined life is not worth living It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong or when we suffer evil to defend
Plato "Crito
It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another worid.
Plato "Apology"
William Shakespeare
He (1564-1616) was an English playwright.
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Cowards die many times before their death.
Julius Caesar
To be, or not to be; that is the question.
Hamlet
There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy
Hamlet
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Hamlet
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude.
As you like It
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players
As you like It
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this I little hand
Macbeth
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
Macbeth
It is a tale Told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing
Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
A young man married is a man that's marre
Sweet are the uses of adversity
All the word's stage,
And all the men and Women merely players
The have their exist and their entrance
And each man in his time plays many parts
His act being eyen ages'
As You like It
Come hither, come hither,
come hither Here shall he see.
No enemy
But winter and rough weather
Under the Green Wood Tree
Frailty the name is woman
Hamlet
William Wordsworth
He (1770-1850) was an English Romantic poet.
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Ten thousands saw I at a glance
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The Child is the father of the Man
My Heart Leaps up When I Behold
Behold her, single in the field,
you solitary Highland Lass!
The Solitary Reaper
William Blake
He (1757-1827) was an English poet and painter in romantic period. He wrote "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience".
