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Effort Quotes
"I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying."
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"It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot."
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"Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having."
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"Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way."
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"None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort."
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"You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome."
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"One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness."
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"I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show."
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"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."
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"The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort."
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"I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient."
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"When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology."
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"On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve."
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"What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort."
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"In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website."
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"I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible."
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"When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person."
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"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."
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"Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated."
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"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder."
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"Everything is hard before it is easy."
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"We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily."
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"Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work."
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"I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security."
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"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires."
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"Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth."
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"Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort."
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"Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently."
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"This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die."
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"It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was."
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"It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race."
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"Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic."
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