Effort Quotes

• When salaries skyrocket, budgets skyrocket, and then rigor mortis sets in: moviemakers turn out formulaic junk in an effort to hedge their bets.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Effort

• All of US sometimes feel that one of the most difficult things in the world is to talk to US about US in an effort to help US.

  

  T.I.
  • World
  • Help
  • Helping

• Prayer is an effort of will.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Effort
  • Prayer
  • Will

• I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort.

  

  Brian Kernighan
  • Effort
  • Summer

• The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Running
  • Zone
  • Runners

• The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.

  

  George Pataki
  • Important
  • Help
  • Effort

• It was a real disappointing defensive effort by our team. So we talked a lot about that.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Real
  • Team
  • Effort

• I think that's a nice compliment to these guys and their effort. I like my team.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Effort
  • Guys
  • Compliment

• A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Heart
  • Culture
  • Education

• Remember, young men, that purity precedes power. The Lord said, 'But purify your hearts before me; and then go ye into all the world, and preach my gospel unto every creature who has not received it' (D&C 112:28). Missionaries discover this very early in their missions and make every effort to be worthy so they can serve with power.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • World
  • Men
  • Power

• I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

  

  Leo Durocher
  • Game
  • Effort

• We're watching the effort being made by the market leader, the company that has been proactive to reaching out to software companies.

  

  Nancy Anderson
  • Company
  • Market
  • Reaching

• This involved some long, hard work, but we got a good bipartisan effort to make this bill work.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the gesture of the sower - sometimes an awe-inspiring gesture.

  

  Emile Galle
  • Up
  • May
  • Effort

• Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

  

  John Paul Jones
  • Wisdom
  • Effort

• Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

  

  Maximilien Robespierre
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Job
  • Effort

• I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Effort
  • Might
  • Iraq

• I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn't make much of an effort.

  

  Jane Green
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Lazy

• Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Effort
  • Swaraj
  • Civil Disobedience

• My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Children
  • School
  • Experience

• The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.

  

  Eileen Atkins
  • Results
  • Meaningful
  • Total

• I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.

  

  John Cusack
  • People
  • Effort

• But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Effort
  • Produce
  • Asleep

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