Best Effort Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.”

Men Ideas Effort Groups Female Males Russia Protest Something New Domain Emerging Accessories

Author:Alexei Navalny

“No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.”

Should Effort Italian Collapse

Author:Giorgio Napolitano

“Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.”

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Author:Ivor Novello

“I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.”

Important Problem Felt Difficult Effort Essentials Pursuit Justify Good Science

Author:Paul Nurse

“My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.”

School Parent Effort University Aspiration Wealthy Academic Supportive

Author:Paul Nurse

“The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.”

Firsts Lines Effort Defense Injury Involving Prevention

Author:Richard Neal

“It's fun to work the robotic arm in part because it's really a team effort.”

Fun Effort Team Arms Robotics Team Effort

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.”

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Author:Rita Ora

“Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.”

Children School Nations Ability Effort Support Meals Nutrition Pizza Carrots Broccoli Celery

Author:Jared Polis

“Anyone who makes an effort at whatever they hope to accomplish can, and will, seriously improve their chances of succeeding.”

Success Chance Effort Succeed Accomplish

Author:Richard Branson

“I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it - and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.”

People Stills Light Today Effort Plans Logic Certainty Uncertainty Analysis Reasoning Immense Reign Obscurity Ontology Rigor

Author:Niels Henrik Abel

“The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In both cases, the increased level of abstraction demands greater effort on the part of anyone who wants to understand the work.”

Want Art Levels Effort Cases Greater Century Demand Logic Mathematics Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Trends Abstraction Ontology

Author:Keith Devlin

“I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.”

Thinking Littles Effort Calling Very Good Available Visiting Very Sad Fax

Author:Franka Potente

“Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort.”

People Made Effort Huge Reform Greek Making Changes Hogwash

Author:George Papandreou

“I went to go see 'Final Destination' which you have to be 17 and over to see and they're like 'Uh, we need to see your I.D.' Here's the really funny thing is that I actually had done my hair and makeup that day. If I don't do my hair and makeup I can understand it but I had actually made an effort to look older.”

Ifs Needs Looks Made I Can Done Effort Hair Finals Makeup Destination Funny Things Hair And Makeup Final Destination

Author:Kay Panabaker

“The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.”

Years Country Problem Government Given Effort Crisis Financial Size Storm Passing Passings Our Country Financial Crisis Insistence

Author:Lucas Papademos

“In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.”

Years Ends Effort Gains Rate Temporary Greece Adjustment Euro Competitiveness

Author:Lucas Papademos

“We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.”

Giving Play Effort Quality

Author:Mike Quade

“Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.”

Thinking Sometimes Jobs Faces Energy Effort Talent Your Face

Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.”

People Way Want Country Wanted Order Effort Impossible Solutions Our Country Peaceful Nato Serbia

Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.”

World Mean Country Done Bigs Given Chance Forget Effort Poverty Lows Debt Income Indebted Good Chance Low Income

Author:Rodrigo Rato

“Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.”

Has Beens Country Done Home Together Political Next Effort Steps Taken Protect Remains Terror Significant Phases Spectrum Political Spectrum

Author:Warren Rudman

“All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.”

People World Years Made War Effort Progress Mankind Prosperity Convinced Preserves War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Contributing Through The Years

Author:Eisaku Sato

“I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.”

People Wells Made Reading Literature Effort Fiction Serious One Day Decided Science Fiction Magazines

Author:Fred Saberhagen

“In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.”

Energy President Effort Achieve Policy Independence Crafts Reform Landscape My Time Agendas President Obama Senate Energy Policy Energy Independence

Author:Ken Salazar

“Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.”

Mind Happiness Faces Found Effort Meditation Buddhism Flow Eternity Subtle Your Face Smile On Your Face

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.”

Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

“I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.”

Kind Effort Too Much Dad Ridiculous

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.”

Long Done Kids Girl Effort Football Amount Shots Work Done Long Shots

Author:Thomas J. Sargent

“The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.”

People Force Effort Steps Security Iraq Various Steps Forward Contributors Security Forces

Author:Craig L. Thomas

“When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.”

“Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.”

Jobs Past Given Effort Worry Support Performances Crisis Oil Reasonable Executives Afghanistan Spills Oil Spill

Author:Jim Talent

“I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.”

Thinking Real Done Effort Degrees Educational Clock Intensity Breakthrough Educational System Part Time

Author:Peter Thiel

“If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.”

Ifs Jobs Energy Effort Attention Media Cost India Climate Climate Change China Focused Emissions Epa China And India

Author:Fred Upton

“I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.”

School Effort Acting Painting Needed High School Outlets Collaborative Effort

Author:James Franco

“Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.”

Done Home Would Be Law Order Fighting Effort Lays Chaos Soldier Missions Terrorism Accomplished Regions Troops Law And Order Valiant Semblance Short Sighted Timetables Fighting Terrorism

Author:James T. Walsh

“For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.”

People Poor Effort Objects Program Welfare Reasonable Legislation Poor People Welfare Programs

Author:Barney Frank

“A nuclear Iran is a - a dramatic and - and devastating potential threat to the world and to America. And - and all our efforts should be focused on making that our first priority or keeping them from having that nuclear capacity our first priority.”

World Should Firsts America Effort Capacity Threat Focused Nuclear Priorities Dramatic Iran Nuclear Iran

Author:Mitt Romney

“We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.”

Doe Spirit Reading Effort Learning Reader Curiosity Determined Encounters Betray Composition Transactions Forewarned

Author:Paulo Freire

“Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.”

Inspirational Effort Situation Subjects Produce Buddhism Clarity Addresses Best Effort Knowledge And Power Occupy Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.”

“Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.”

Motivational Opportunity Energy Waiting Effort Attention Determination Dare Resolve Controlled Constructs Captured Will Power Those Who Wait

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end”

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”

“Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view - what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities? When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.”

Use Today Choices Asks Opportunity Ability Answers Views Effort Quality Talent Skills Highest Focused Transcendentalism Seize The Opportunity Be Considerate Skills And Abilities

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.”

Littles Bits Effort Progress Little Bit Excellence Average Proportion Progression

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low. [Ames believes that "to eat your veggies" is the best way to prevent cancer.]”

“A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.”

People Men Leadership Effort Conscious Opposites

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.”

Knows Play Government Individual Force Causes Natural Effort Economy Taken Bases Investment Accountability

Author:Mike Lee

“Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.”

Years Bigs Night Winning Sides Goal Memories Effort Four Wonderful Battle Red Wings Cups Every Night Teammate Through The Years Stanley Muster Stanley Cup Wonderful Memories

Author:Ted Lindsay

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