Quotes about effort
effort focus finding-yourself
If you don't make a conscious effort to control your focus-and decide in advance which things you're going to focus on-you'll be so pulled by the demands of the world that you will soon find yourself living in reaction rather than living a life plan you've designed for yourself. Tony Robbins
effort way different
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. Marlee Matlin
effort pay sometimes
Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off. Maria Sharapova
effort important
CAN is 100 times more important than IQ Max Lucado
effort game hockey line penalties poor third took tremendous
The game is on the line and we took two poor penalties in the third period. You can't do those things. It's unnecessary. That's the hockey game. We had tremendous effort by people, but we took two poor penalties. Ken Hitchcock
efforts iraq market rally
The fundamentals have undercut any efforts for the market to rally on Iraq news, Larry Wachtel
effort gets ready
The cleanup effort gets us ready for the holidays.
effort eliminate extreme fairness fight gay legal people
The fight for fairness isn't over, and we won't give up. These amendments are part of a long-standing effort by the extreme right to eliminate any legal recognition for gay people and our families.
effort brain consciousness
Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are. Neal Shusterman
effort eras joints
The era of the Single Savior is over. What is needed now is joint action, combined effort, collective co-creation. Neale Donald Walsch
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 needs genius
Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act Paulo Coelho
effort elegance accepted
Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.
effort done good-work
To say 'well done'to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. Phillips Brooks
effort grace augustine
Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God. Philip Yancey
effort world unseen
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
effort world faces
All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces. Naveen Jain
effort african-american american-voters
In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters. Judy Woodruff
effort upset happens
There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it. Joyce Meyer
effort succeed trust-in-god
Trust in God and destroy fear, which paralyzes all efforts to succeed and attracts the very thing you fear. Paramahansa Yogananda
effort grace realization
God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.
effort situation ifs
If you do not intend to kill anybody, if you make every effort to not kill and injure anybody, that's all you really can do. You can't stop somebody from walking into a situation, and we really can't be too overly preoccupied with this. Paul Watson
effort use found
Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
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