Effort Quotes
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I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
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When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.
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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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Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.
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While we are encouraged by the progress we are making, we are still in the early stages of our turnaround efforts. We need to remain focused to ensure flawless execution of all elements of our business plan.
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It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.
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Great things only come with great effort.
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I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.
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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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Most of my friends' fathers had been in the war - either as soldiers or in some other capacity in the military. Whereas my father had not fought. He was older and he was in a business that was considered essential to the wartime effort - the wire business - and, of course, I was so young I didn't understand any of this.
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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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Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
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When people put effort in life, it's more beautiful. But it doesn't come naturally to me.
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If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.
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Opening my eyes takes effort, but it's worth it to see him, right there in front of me. He's so beautiful, golden. It's so hokey, but it's how he is. He is warmth to me.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
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Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs
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It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.
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It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.
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When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.
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Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
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Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
