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Effort Quotes
"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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"Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?"
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"It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings."
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"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."
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"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."
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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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"California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort."
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"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."
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"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."
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"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."
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"No God, no messiah, no prophet can grant your wishes " it is only through your own efforts that you can make your wishes come true " it is only you who can grant your own wishes."
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"I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called."
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"The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are."
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"The team is very enthusiastic - everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it's a very good, close-knit team."
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"We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers."
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"No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
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"Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse."
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"The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted."
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"It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene."
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"Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration."
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"I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules."
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"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
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"But you see, Crumb, it is hard to give up what you have worked at since you were a boy. There were some Italian visitors once, they were cheering us on, Brandon and myself, and they thought that Achilles and Hector had come back to life. So they said.'But which is which? One dragged through the dust by the other ...The king says, 'You turn your boy out beautifully. No nobleman could do more.''I don't want him to be Achilles,' he says, 'I only want him not to be flattened."
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"Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort."
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"You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too."
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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
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"He done his level best.Was he a mining on the flat..He done it with a zest..Was he a leading of the choir..He done his level best.If he'd a reg'lar task to do,He never took no rest..Or if 'twas off and on the same..He done his level best.If he was preachin' on his beat,He'd tramp from east to west,And north to south ..in cold and heat..He done his level best.He'd Yank a sinner outen (Hades),And land him with the blest;Then snatch a prayer'n waltz in again,And do his level best.He'd cuss and sing and howl and pray,And dance and drink and jest,He done his level best.Whate'er this man was sot to doHe done it with a zest;No matter what his contract was,He'd do his level best..."
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"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."
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"Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields."
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"I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort."
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"John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection."
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"There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended."
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"I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make."
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"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
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"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
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