Best amount & effort Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)

“We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place; the last thing we were going to do is lay them off.”

People Way Firsts Lasts Effort Company Taken Amount Lays Apples Bubbles Dots Downturn

Author:Steve Jobs

“Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational.”

People Men Wells Has Beens Form Effort Amount Ordinary Rational Alternatives Well Being Goods Leisure Devoted Toil Persuasion Ordinary People Phenomenal Indoctrination

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to something demonstrably less legible than something else would be if we could get used to it, we should make no effort to scrap the existing thing. This was done by the Florentines and Romans of the fifteenth century; it requires simply good sense in the originators & good will in the rest of us.”

Ifs Should Done Would Be Used Effort Practice Century Amount Accustomed Good Will Good Sense Scrap Legibility

Author:Eric Gill

“Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.”

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Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne

“The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.”

Doe Girl Effort Return Amount Achievement Queens Factories Capitalist Providing Silk Stockings

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“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.”

“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.”

Energy Growth Effort Risk Economic Amount Taxes Judgment Investment Financial Heavy Drag Load Incentives Risk-taking Tax System

Author:John F. Kennedy

“If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.”

Ifs Effort Failing Depends Amount Succeed Peaceful Resolve Endeavor Great Future

Author:Akio Morita

“The attitude, 'You can win if you want to badly enough,' means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too 'tough' to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner's ideals and dreams.”

Ifs Want Mean Enough Dream Order Winning Effort Attitude Conditions Amount Tough Ideals Constant Punishment Tied You Can Win Will To Win

Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.”

Knows World Two Effort Novel Week Stage Amount Bed Finished Massive Two Weeks Manic

Author:Sherman Alexie

“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.”

“I'm quite severely dyslexic so I struggle with acting in certain ways. I always have to put in triple the amount of effort, which would always frustrate me a lot. I suppose that some people can just look at a script once and know it. That's not me. I really have to spend a bit of time with the lines. But it's my job and I've got better and better at it. If you're learning a lot, things start going quicker. Doing the lines with repetition and you just get it in your head somehow.”

People Ifs Knows Way Looks Jobs Certain Bits Lines Effort Acting Struggle Amount Scripts Repetition Dyslexic

Author:Douglas Booth

“When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.”

Play Order Effort Huge Amount Guitar Teenager Ramones

Author:Kevin Shields

“Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.”

People Stills Courses Found Effort Records Amount Internet

Author:Devendra Banhart

“I wasn't nervous at all. I applied the same amount of efforts to the love scenes as I did to the skating and the acting and everything else.”

Effort Acting Amount Scene Nervous Skating

Author:T.I.

“I put a lot of time and effort into the exercise I get, the amount of rest and sleep I get, and the amount I eat. And I think those three things are really kind of my wellness and health foundation.”

Thinking Kind Three Sleep Effort Amount Exercise Foundation Wellness Three Things Rest And Sleep

Author:Jennifer Ashton

“To be the best in your field is a great ambition, and requires discipline and a huge amount of effort. The athletes who possess this drive are the ones I am attracted to.”

Effort Fields Huge Amount Discipline Ambition Athlete Being The Best Great Ambition

Author:Giorgio Armani

“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

“There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.”

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Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

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