Quotes about effort
effort body desperate
Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges. Judith Viorst
effort tickets disappointing
I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else. Emily Mortimer
effort united-states should
When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it. Elliott Abrams
effort use alliances
The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them.
effort feelings suffering
We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
effort smoking acting
Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing. Joan Chen
effort get-better needs
When I begin to work on myself, sometimes things get worse before they get better. It is okay if this happens, because I know that it's the beginning of the process. It's untangling old threads. I just flow with it. It takes time and effort to learn what I need to learn. I don't demand instant change. Louise Hay
effort challenges energy
I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies. Lois Capps
effort needs want
I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.
effort taste periods
[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
effort dresses spirit
And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts. Louisa May Alcott
effort green cynicism
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. John Fowles
effort despise
To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
effort risk income
[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax system...reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking. John F. Kennedy
effort risk growth
Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities.
effort actors cameras
I'm focusing on my efforts behind the camera. I'm doing some producing and directing so that I can make projects for all of the amazing, talented actors and crew that I know. Jonathan Keltz
effort campaigns chairs
I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush. Katherine Harris
effort tough conscious
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. James M. Cain
effort next corners
There was that sense of we had turned the corner. All of that time, all of that work, all of that effort – we were poised to make that next jump. Eric Mangini
effort mind looks
Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort. Emma Thompson
effort want fruit
The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it's there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab it, you don't even have to make any effort. Emilio Estevez
effort down-and terrorist
I will not stop in our efforts to hunt down and kill the terrorists. John F. Kerry
effort political competition
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue. John Dos Passos
effort firsts good-work
The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act. John Calvin
effort humanity causes
I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples. Frank B. Kellogg
effort filmmaker
You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort. Logan Lerman
effort victory done
It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory. Lou Holtz
effort consciousness awareness
Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
effort progress obedience
Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive. Mahatma Gandhi
effort matter firsts
Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him. Freya Stark
effort east amplification
I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU. Francois Hollande
effort good graduated guys last pick team
The last two years on the guys' side, we've really graduated some athletes. Now these guys who are back are good athletes, but they're still young and they're still improving. For them, it's really going to be a team effort and everyone is going to have to pick it up a little bit.
effort world would-be
This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another. Ellen Page