Effort Quotes
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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.
Napoleon Hill
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I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.
Iris Apfel
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I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.
Mahershala Ali
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I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.
Lapo Elkann
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The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's also known as the 'user pay' principle. Every effort should be made to link the payment of taxes or fees to the cost associated with the government service.
Mark Skousen
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That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us.
Kurt Busch
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We continue to stand united with Germany and our NATO allies in our ongoing efforts to build peace and stability in Afghanistan.
Barack Obama
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Virtue proceeds through effort.
Euripides
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
Irwin M. Jacobs
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Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.
Said Musa
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I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.
Pauley Perrette
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A core focus of our effort is based on the recognition that our customers have varying needs, and one of their most important needs is to have choice.
Safra A. Catz
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Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.
Orison Swett Marden
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I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.
Mark Harmon
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I like everything in this iPhone, iPod world where you can do everything all the time. Back in my time, you bought a vinyl record when you were a kid and took it home, and it took a bit of effort to actually get it out of the thing and not scratch it.
Rick Astley
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In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
Anton Chekhov
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If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
Naveen Jain
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
Kate Winslet
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
Naomi Campbell
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
Quintilian
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No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.
Oprah Winfrey
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When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you.
Kylie Minogue
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A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens.
Al Roker