Famous Quotes & Sayings

You get a team at home and when they get back to their house they're a totally different team. We're used to that and we expected this effort out of Green Bay.

Jim Caldwell

You find it to be true, when tragedy strikes, oftentimes you find an opportunity out on the field to liberate yourself from some of your problems and troubles. That's what I think we were able to do. The effort was good out there. They ran around and got after it. But prior to the game, and when the game was over, they were in a somber mood.

Tim Thomas

The result wasn't what we wanted it to be, but the effort pretty much was. Obviously, we were just a little off. They're a good team, but we had the lead. We should have won the game.

Terry Francona

There was a lot of extraordinary efforts tonight by a lot of people. We got ourselves in a position where one slip-up and we lose. We actually put ourselves in a position where we could win in the eighth and we didn't.

There was a lot of effort to keep up what was going on.

There's still a long way to go. There's a lot of work to be done. We're not at the level we were last year. We can get there. But it's going to take time and hard work. So far, these guys have responded well and put forth the effort to get that done. But there's still a lot more work left.

There's no way we should lose by 20 in an NCAA tournament game. No way. The front of our jersey says Wisconsin and we let everybody down. We put effort in out there but you just can't lose by 20.

Nora Roberts

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

Nikola Tesla

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

Myrtle Reed

[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

Rajneesh

The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes, and then effortlessness follows. Effortlessness is the peak of effort, it comes only when you have reached the peak

Rajneesh

First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.

Rajneesh

With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind.

Rajneesh

Meditation is not your doing. You simply make the effort, but it is not your doing. Your effort is needed to prepare the ground. As the ground is ready, immediately you see you are no more; the whole cosmos is. You have entered a greater womb, an eternal womb of tremendous peace and ecstasy.

Rajneesh

To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you miserable, nobody can disappoint you, nobody can make you a failure because in the first place you were not trying to be a success; you were not asking the future to be in a certain way. So whatever happens, the next moment you can rejoice. It is always your victory.

Shane Koyczan

Effort is the siamese twin of success

Seamus Heaney

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

Michael Porter

Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.

It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.

Louis Kronenberger

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

Michael Crichton

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

Michael O'Brien

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

Michael Cera

If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll be there. So don’t bother saving a spot for someone who won’t make an effort to stay.

Mason Cooley

A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

Mary Karr

I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you.

Melody Beattie

We learn the magical lesson that making the most of what we have turns it into more.

Michio Kaku

A soul might very well exist, but we, as physicists, try to measure and quantify everything. So far, no one has been able to create an experiment to do this for the soul. Efforts have been made to weigh the body after death, but each time we find no evidence of a soul. So a soul may very well exist, but it is not a testable theory.

Mark Driscoll

Much of spirituality today is an effort to change God to suit us. But he's not going to become more like us, we need to become more like him.

Mignon McLaughlin

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

Mignon McLaughlin

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

John Wooden

Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.