Effort Quotes
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If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle.
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If you're trying to impress a girl, go with something that doesn't look like you're trying to impress, but you should still make an effort. It goes back to what you're comfortable with. Look like you're there with interest.
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I never felt that I was typecast, but I was concerned about it. I certainly made an effort to take as many parts in theater and film that resisted that. If you only learn how to act a certain kind of role, it is very difficult to grow as an actor.
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Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.
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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
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I ran for president because I wanted to help Lithuania and its people during a difficult time. My country was on the very edge of an economic crisis, and people were disappointed by the economic situation and the political elite. We all needed change and motivation to consolidate our efforts in order to overcome the difficulties.
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I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
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Racing comes easily to me, especially the 100 metres. That is why, no matter how fast I run the run the 100 metres, the 200 will always mean more to me, because of the effort I've put in.
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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness...
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I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single song. Plotting takes time and effort, for there are many false turns. I fill up pages and pages with my mistakes, thereby eliminating them. Eventually a trail is broken through this mountain of mistakes. Sometimes it's as easy as putting eggs in a basket; other times it's like trying to pound a ton of sand into a diamond.
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Marriage requires effort and time and talking and connecting. You have to maintain it.
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I believe we must protect Medicare's guaranteed benefit, and I will oppose any effort to dismantle Medicare and turn it into a voucher system.
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I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.
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Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.
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I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.
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If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another...until you succeed.
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I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
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I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort.
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I think all our players were encouraged by the effort, and thought we had the right idea. Our execution came up a little bit short.
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It's a state in the South where you know darn well President Bush is going to be spending a lot of time and a lot of effort there.
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You never really get a chance to sit down with the people you love, unless you really make an effort to do it. It doesn't just happen naturally anymore.
