Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have to be able to play the full game. We have to get over being a one-half team. I was really disappointed with our effort at halftime.

We looked like a team that went outside for the first time. Our effort was that way and that's not acceptable.

We make a real strong effort to get as much done, as much as we need to during the spring and in Indianapolis.

We made too many mistakes to win the game, but the effort and the intensity were right there the whole time.

Larry Brown

We made some hustle plays that got us back. We played hard. The effort was there, and that was big.

Tim Duncan

I don't even know how he got it off, honestly. I think he shot it with his left hand. I went after his right hand, thinking he was going to float it with the time going down like that, but somehow he got it up there and it stayed up there on the rim and went in. It was just a great shot, a great effort by those guys to turn a turnover into a fast-break that quickly and get it to the rim.

I am emotionally drained. The injuries kept on occurring ... but what an effort by our guys.

Bob Hartley

He handles it well, but to give him a five-goal cushion, I'm sure he appreciates the effort from the boys.

G. H. Hardy

He is making every effort to recover progress.

He is leading by his example of work and the effort he puts in. He's raised the level of expectations for how judges work.

He has put a lot of time and effort into his game. He has made the most of his opportunities and put himself in position to perform. He spent hours working on his shooting, and when you see him in games it's paid off.

He expressed to me that the community, the city, everything about the team was a very important part of his life. But you have to have two parties in this, and I made every effort to get something done with them.

He gives that kind of special effort on every play.

He gives a great effort every night out and is an important part of this team.

Sam Mitchell

We can live with inexperience, guys making mistakes because of inexperience. I'm not disappointed in the effort of our guys.

This was not the kind of effort we expected. And not the kind of effort that can result in anything but a loss.

This was not the first effort made to engage in this fun.

Richard P. Feynman

In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

William Ruckelshaus

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

Wu Bangguo

To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts.

William James

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

William James

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

Samuel Smiles

Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.

Ricardo Semler

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

Robert Caro

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

Trevor Manuel

Failure to deliver a deal in Hong Kong is just not acceptable, ... There must be an intensification of the efforts.

Richard Dawkins

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

Robert Walpole

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

Robert Wilson Lynd

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

Robert Redford

Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.

Warren Buffett

You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself

Vincent Van Gogh

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.