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Source: Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)

“It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.”

Way Wells Effort Known Study Mathematics Method Details Well Known Filling Enjoyable Profitable Filling In Studying Mathematics

Author:Cornelius Lanczos

“The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.”

Ends Effort Battle Gains Praise Worthy Quitting Triumph Useless Retiring Captains Vessel

Author:Oliver Hazard Perry

“If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city.”

Ifs Way Persons Made Would Be Effort Cities Five Car Building Size Driven Wheels Friendly Software Users Engineers Steers Menus Pedals Vendors Civil Engineer Dashboards Specs User Friendly

Author:Erik Naggum

“Coordinating our efforts and sharing information and expertise is a great way to step up our fight against violent criminals. We are determined to make Ontario communities safer for law abiding citizens.”

“If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.”

Ifs Growth Effort Behinds Economic Environmental Protection Pollution Economic Growth Environmental Protection Lag

Author:Zhou Shengxian

“Tonight was a disappointing effort. I thought we competed the last three quarters but in the first quarter we did not compete, we participated, and that's not acceptable.”

Firsts Lasts Three Effort Tonight Quarters Acceptable Disappointing

Author:Dwane Casey

“I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.”

Thinking Years Effort Relief Accumulation Hurricanes Katrina Hurricane Katrina

Author:Greg Roberts

“We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The Iraq occupation and the government's bumbling effort in New Orleans, has people wanting to act.”

People Government Action Turns Effort Iraq Crowds Lists Excellent Occupation Sparks Speakers New Orleans

Author:Ed Garvey

“Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like 'I'll give you an E for effort.' How about the artist's 'effortlessnesses' instead? It's certainly something, or at least the appearance of something, that I aspire to myself.”

Giving Wells Art Might Artist Sound Effort Week Appearance Working It Aspire Patronizing Peeves

Author:James Nares

“The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.”

Trying Effort Asking Excited Asking Questions

Author:Doug Dawson

“Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more.”

Effort Talent

Book:John Singer Sargent

Source: John Singer Sargent

“The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.”

People Knows Seems Social Effort Failing Honest Skills Unusual Rationality Social Skills

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!”

Way Stories Values Effort Kindness Theme Plot

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“A little bait catches a large fish.”

Littles Effort Fishes Bait

Book:Quotes to Nirvana

Source: Quotes to Nirvana

“[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image.”

Ifs Knows World Should Firsts Kind Christian Lying Desire Effort Kingdoms Idealist Christian Freedom

Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

“Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.”

Should Can Do Effort Risk Reacting Can Do Something

Author:Benjamin Carson

“By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I frankly detested - a mutual sentiment, I might add. I knew her as an opinionated, obstinate person, primitive in her outlook, rigid in her attitudes, with a genius for reaching and exploiting the deepest fears and prejudices of the Jewish masses. I was certain that with her as prime minister, all peace efforts would come to a total standstill.”

“What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.”

Kind Certain Effort Principles Taxes Parliament Objections

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“It is not easy to make an effort and to remember all the little personalia of some one one has loved very much, and by whom one has been loved.”

Littles Has Beens Remember Easy Effort

Book:The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland, Miss Isa Bowman

Source: The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland, Miss Isa Bowman

“The only kind of marriage liberals had ever glorified is the gay kind. But thanks to Michael Schiavo, the sanctity of marriage is fast becoming a liberal sacrament, with the proviso it has to involve 'mercy killing.' It took Michael Schiavo's devoted efforts to starve and dehydrate his wife to restore liberal faith in the institution.”

Kind Effort Wife Becoming Gay Mercy Institutions Killing Thanks Devoted Sacraments Sanctity Killing It Sanctity Of Marriage

Author:Ilana Mercer

“If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires.”

Ifs Should Self Hard Desire Goal Realizing Prayer Effort Achieve Hard Work Praying Achievement Negative Excellence Supreme Tendencies Sincerely Removal Supreme Being

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“There is no short cut to God; sadhana must be performed regularly and with devotion. It is our own effort which will enable us to experience the grace of God which is being showered on us all the time. Therefore, whatever spare time you get, use it to seek God. If you create peace in your own heart by doing sadhana, then that will have a positive effect on your family, your work and so on. The peace and love of God will overflow out of your heart and encourage others to move on the right path.”

Ifs Heart Use Moving Effort Path Grace Cutting Effects And Love Devotion Gods Will God Love Our Family Spares Grace Of God Right Path Peace And Love Overflow Spare Time Short Cuts

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Of course, we also are soberly aware that historical problems remain in cross-strait relations, and that there will be issues in the future that will require time, patience and joint efforts to resolve.”

Problem Courses Effort Issues Crosses Relation Historical Resolve Joints Time Patience Joint Efforts

Author:Xi Jinping

“To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage.”

World Needs Long Country Term Party Effort Practice Successful Draws Corruption Valuable Around The World Long Term Heritage Foreign Countries

Author:Xi Jinping

“In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting asteroids, or whatever seems appropriate. We've got millions and millions of people who want to go into space, who are willing to pay. When you figure in the payload potential of customers, everything changes.”

People Want Mind Seems Space Effort Pay Millions Figures Willing Moon Customers Appropriate Exploration Mars Things Change Visiting Space Travel Asteroids

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.”

Effort Strive Impart

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.”

World Needs Problem Courses Nations Common Effort Support Serious Concern Trade Divorced Recognise Integrated Free Trade World Trade

Author:Lawrence Summers

“It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.”

Ifs Hard Would Be Evil Effort Poverty Greater Direct Misery Vices Instance Assault

Author:William Graham Sumner

“The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.”

People Believe May Effort Company Industry Filled Assumption Good People

Author:Andrew Tobias

“Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the nation's institutions based on knowledgeable scientific foundations that require promising human capacities derived from college graduates. Universities are the makers of men, we are proud of their role and of the efforts of their administrators.”

“When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge.”

Body Results Effort Special Elements Research Discovery Claims Originals Genuine Tendencies Cognitive

Book:What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

“Looking back at Batman from a distance - after all the hype has dried up and the franchise has at least temporarily been abandoned - it's easy to see the movie for what it is: a moderately diverting motion picture that should have been shorter and better paced. There are a lot of things wrong with Batman, but it still makes for decent entertainment in the fine tradition of the typical low-intelligence summer movie. The best thing that can be said about Batman is that it led to Batman Returns, which was a far superior effort.”

“If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.”

Ifs Should Trying May Important Running Found Difficult Answers Results Effort Wonder Serious Physics Complexity Fascinating Physicist Ambiguity Perplexity Layman

Author:Edward Condon

“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

“As an entrepreneur you have responsibilities in trying to operate well in what you have to do. There is a positive effect if you end up doing that. That's where I try to spend most of my efforts.”

Ifs Trying Wells Ends Effort Responsibility Effects Entrepreneur

Author:John Elkann

“Perhaps the central reason that Ahmadinejad's message, and the hundreds of thousands of voices echoing his call throughout the world, are so dangerous is because the Free World is making precious little effort to assert its own message.”

World Littles Reason Voice Effort Dangerous Messages Free World

Author:Caroline Glick

“I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you might try it later. Writing code that is cross-platform from the start requires more discipline, but I find it is worth the effort.”

Ifs Writing Trying Might Effort Discipline Crosses Window Code Platforms Macs Linux Writing Code

Author:Ryan C. Gordon

“As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.”

Understanding Levels Effort Progress Various Deeper Shade Initials Complement

Book:A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

“The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate and useful occupation. Any protest against such efforts, in the name of freefom from restrictive conditions, would be fruitless if science did not naïvely identify the abstractions called rules and laws with the actually efficacious forces, and confuse the probability that B will follow A with the actual effort make B follow A.”

Ifs Would Be Law Order Names Force Effort Conditions Events Research Connections Determine Protest Occupation Endeavor Probability Abstraction Scientific Research

Author:Max Horkheimer

“The world is so possessed by the power of what is and the efforts of adjustment to it, that the adolescent's rebellion, which once fought the father because his practices contradicted his own ideology, can no longer crop up. ... Psychologically, the father is ... replaced by the world of things.”

World Father Effort Practice Ideology Rebellion Possessed Replaced Crops Adjustment

Author:Max Horkheimer

“This is not about the aesthetics: there is a rule in a society: "Whoever you deal with, makes you become them", therefore watching the efforts of para-athletes can bring the temporary mobility disorder. If we want humanity to develop, the television should show us people who are healthy, beautiful, strong, honest and wise - not perverts, murderers, weaklings, losers, idiots or invalids.”

People Ifs Want Should Shows Beautiful Humanity Strong Deals Effort Wise Honest Television Healthy Athlete Idiot Temporary Loser Disorder Murderer Aesthetics Mobility

Author:Janusz Korwin-Mikke

“Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not for the economy.”

America Effort Economy Industry Taxes Findings Britain Efficient Shelter Britain And America

Book:The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

Source: The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

“American media seem to color events by refracting them through a sickeningly sentimental prism. Their efforts to create reality on the ground — instead of reporting on it — notwithstanding, here's what we know about the inchoate Egyptian uprising: the movement's members hated their ruler and did what was necessary to be rid of him.”

Reality Seems Effort Media Events Color Sentimental Prisms American Media

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the field of atomic energy, our scientists and technicians have vividly shown how much the increased might of the Soviet state and the further growth of its international authority depends on their efforts and practical successes.”

World States Might Energy Growth Effort Example Fields Position Depends Development Authority Scientist International Practicals Soviet Technicians Atomic Energy

Author:Vyacheslav Molotov

“In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.”

“Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.”

States Effort Advantage Strive Firm Strife Shareholders

Author:Herbert Schiller

“All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.”

Ifs Effort Responsibility Destiny Focus Access Core Realising Our Destiny Your Destiny

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

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