Famous quotes containing the word undertake:
“If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“If I had not come to America, where I felt free to formulate tentatively insights at which I had empathically arrived, I would have accomplished very little. I would never have begun to publish, to teach, to undertake research. Because if one does not find an assenting echo to one’s ideas, if one is passed over, as I was in Vienna, then one cannot create. To create, after all, is to believe that what one says will count.”
—Margaret S. Mahler (1897–1985)