Effort Quotes
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Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings
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My fallen heart doesn't know. But I will put effort and pretend that I don't know.
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If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.
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Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.
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I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn't be the hardest thing that you do.
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I feel good about how we're trying to get better defensively. We're nowhere near where we want to be, but I like the effort.
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We got a lot of opportunities. I can sit here not happy we lost, but I'm fine with the way we played. If we have the same effort (tonight), we'll be in good shape.
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With great effort comes great gratification.
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Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain, he had to get his mind controlled and safe from their efforts, so that they could not break him. He would not let them break him. He would hold together against anything and all. If only they gave him sufficient time to make ready, he knew he could defeat pain. It turned out they gave him sufficient time (it was months before the Machine was ready). But they broke him anyway.
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On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.
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A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.
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It takes a lot of effort to look this mediocre.
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Full effort is full victory.
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A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them
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In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.
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What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our party]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.
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CNN is the only organization with both a 24/7 TV network AND a powerhouse digital product. Rachel Smolkin, executive editor of CNN Digital Politics, has put together a Murderer's Row of talent and the midterms are really their debut. When you combine that effort with the footprint we have in the field and the depth of talent and experience of our anchors, analysts and beat reporters, I don't think there is another organization on the planet that can cover elections the way CNN can.
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
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Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.
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The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.
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My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.
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I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."
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It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.
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The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.
