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“As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.”

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“When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.”

Has Beens Effort Security Involved Activity Nuclear Despite Iran Exhausted Diplomacy Council Unanswered Security Council

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.”

World Heart Ideas Language Effort Activity Justify Thinker Venture Transforming Inventor Visionaries Entrepreneurial Pragmatic Utopian Venture Capital Elevating Transforming The World

Author:Alain de Botton

“One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.”

Able Reading Effort Greater Reader Activity Range Proportion

Author:Mortimer Adler

“Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.”

Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism

“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal”

“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous interrelated activities. Differences may exist in the goals to be achieved, the particular processes involved, and the magnitude of effort. Nevertheless, it is possible to abstract the underlying essential similarities in the management of these seemingly disparate systems.”

Source: Linear Programming and Extensions

“Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.”

Source: The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures

“To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.”

Thinking Knows Needs Years Mind Kind Reading Effort Talking Activity Mathematics Busy Math Mathematical Contemplation Reasoning Behaviour Simplest Newton Not Talking Calculating

Author:George Spencer-Brown

“It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.”

Ifs Feels Reason Goal Effort Danger Activity Losing Direct Graves Evolve Reaching Cheated Reaching Goals Losing Everything Daily Activities

Book:Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

“Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.”

Effort Ought Activity Pursue

Author:Carson Cistulli

“Selfish people are, by definition, those whose activities are devoted to bringing themselves happiness. Yet. . . these selfish people are far less likely to be happy than those whose efforts are devoted to making others happy.”

People Effort Activity Definitions Selfish Devoted Selfish People

Author:Bernard Rimland

“It's not enough to have a few women's studies courses. Why is it more important to study Paul Revere's midnight ride than it is Susan B. Anthony's 50-year effort to transform the face of America for women? When you're in school, most of the events you study are about men. Men's activities lauded and repeated over and over. What about us? What about commemorating the decades-long struggle for suffrage? Why don't we hear those stories over and over and over again. It's almost inconceivable for men to understand what it would be like to live without that constant valorization.”

Men Years Long Important Enough Stories Would Be School America Faces Courses Effort Struggle Study Events Activity Constant Decades Midnight Suffrage Susan B Anthony

Author:Judy Chicago

“Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience.”

“By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.”

Reality Eye Effort Mystery Fronts Activity Elements Oneself Setting Settings Staring Constraints Texture Staring At You

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.”

Men World Term Effort Activity Environmental Speed Nervous Nervous System Electronics Forlorn

Book:The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media

Source: The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media

“A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.”

Years Mind Children Littles Stills Two Age Able Three Numbers Effort Periods Activity Achievement Capable Concepts Lays Acquire Unconscious Exploring Surroundings Absorption

Author:Maria Montessori

“People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action... they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control.”

People May Action Suffering Effort Events Exercise Activity Safe Capability Distress Threatening Adequate Coping Manageable Self Efficacy Misgivings

Author:Albert Bandura

“Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.”

Problem Process Effort Study Design Products Activity Behavior Research Evolve Users Clients Ongoing Responding Discrete Specifications Research Study Continually Learning

Author:Dan Brown

“Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.”

Energy Results Effort Silence Focus Plans Activity Handle Persistence Lions Executing

Author:Les Brown

“When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.”

Trying Effort Achieve Activity Passivity

Author:Sengcan

“The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction.”

Humans May Action Form Actors Effort Conditions Fashion Produce Activity Projects Conscious Consequence Flow Feedback Human History Elude Unintended Consequences

Author:Anthony Giddens

“Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.”

People World Want Believe Country Force Causes Effort Activity Gains Logic Regard Aim Israel Occupation Palestine Ruthless Settlement Apartheid Legitimacy Countries Of The World

Author:Mahmoud Abbas

“An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived. It unifies your efforts and energy. It gives meaning and purpose to all you do.”

Want Giving Important Helping Purpose Energy Process Goal Results Effort Information Activity Determine Where You Are

Book:Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

“Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.”

Suffering Causes Effort Successful Our Lives Activity Pressure Intention Noble Violent Enterprise Sincere Frantic Successful Life

Author:Wayne Muller

“We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.”

“One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as I am "on stage", publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can't help being competitive. I know I don't want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.”

“Take charity work for example; the motivation of my various charitable activities is neither for fame nor profits. It is my sincere wish that, through my efforts, more people can realize how important it is to protect our planet and to start to act for a change.”

People Important Motivation Wish Realizing Effort Example Planets Activity Fame Protect Charity Profit Various Sincere Our Planet Charitable Charity Work

Author:Li Bingbing

“There's real evidence that getting involved in charitable activity (and it's probably better to give your time and effort, rather than money) makes people happier.”

People Giving Real Effort Involved Activity Evidence Charitable

Author:Peter Kinderman

“Today, terrorism threatens a great number of states, a great number of people - hundreds of thousands, millions of people suffer from its criminal activity. And we all face the task of joining our efforts in the fight against this common evil.”

People States Today Faces Suffering Fighting Evil Common Numbers Effort Millions Activity Tasks Terrorism Criminals Joining

Author:Vladimir Putin

“There are things that you study, classes you've taken, activities you've done that feel right, that feel like they're in your power zone. So it doesn't take incredible amount of effort for you to do it - it just comes more naturally to you.”

Feels Done Effort Class Study Taken Amount Activity Incredibles Zone Feels Right

Author:Robert Greene

“Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.”

Humans Today Effort Activity Labor Bases Socialism Selfishness Presidential Motive Enterprise Enlightened Substitutes Capitalist Adequate Propose New Day Socializing

Book:Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils

Source: Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

“Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.”

World Humans Real Views Effort Calling Activity Cease Real World Mainstream Environmentalism Environmentalist Human Activity World View Lobbying

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity.”

Giving Humans Art Feelings Care Fall Difficult Love Is Effort Activity Capitalism Spontaneous Human Activity

Author:Erich Fromm

“A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever.”

Giving Doe Book Reading Understanding Forget Effort Failing Judging Reader Activity Deserve Criticism Praise Critical Active Consideration Requirements Good Book

Author:Mortimer Adler

“Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.”

Persons Natural Effort Activity Skills Demand Interaction Feedback Enjoyable Reluctant

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.”

Persons Whole Moments Earth Universe Effort Accepting Activity Eternal Merit Realms Dimensions Sand Grain Sentient Beings Grains Of Sand

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Indeed we have great reason to rejoice. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most. Strength comes not from frantic activity but from being settled on a firm foundation of truth and light. It comes from placing our attention and efforts on the basics of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It comes from paying attention to the divine things that matter most.”

“If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.”

Ifs Want Happens Motivational Action Motivation Hope Goal Effort Activity Ambition Accomplish Martial Arts Fitness Make It Happen Anything In Life

Author:Chuck Norris