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“I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.”

Thinking Made Might Sports Effort Team Picks British Captains

Author:Payne Stewart

“Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.”

Two Play Problem Guy Games Sports Numbers Effort Shapes Fatigue Snaps

Author:Steve Spurrier

“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

“How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.”

“The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth.”

Source: Gesammelte Abhandlungen

“Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.”

“When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit an injustice... If this occurs repeatedly, all incentives to cultural enterprise are destroyed and they cease utterly to make an effort. This leads to destruction and ruin of civilization.”

People Ifs Wisdom Politics Effort Economy Gone Rights Civilization Destruction Property Injustice Cease Commit Destroyed Ruins Liberalism Acquire Enterprise Incentives Property Rights

Author:Ibn Khaldun

“If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.”

Ifs Want Feels Kind Helping Effort Office Determined Public Office

Author:Andrew Shue

“I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.”

Thinking Long I Can Bigs Film Effort Break Chinese

Author:Ang Lee

“The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.”

Process Term Effort Example Scene Directors Blogs Finishing Commentary Dvds Effort And Time

Author:David Cronenberg

“The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.”

“Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic freedom is the world's mightiest engine for abundance and social justice... Developing countries need to be encouraged to experiment with a growing variety of arrangements for profit sharing and expanded capital ownership.”

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs.”

Men Wells Real States Form Politics Effort Economy Amount Disease Solutions Liberalism Abandon Unhealthy Crippled Get Well Wheelchairs

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.”

Important Politics Deals Effort Economy Program Liberalism Employee Ownership Participation Powerlessness

Author:Daniel Yankelovich

“Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.”

“To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any pretext, however flimsy, and put to death with horrible tortures. No government pretending to be civilized can go on condoning such atrocities. Either it must make every possible effort to put them down or it must suffer the scorn and contempt of Christendom.”

“Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.”

People Should Made Government Law Effort Talking Economy Integrity Constitution Convinced Reform Conventions Attending Bloggers

Author:John Jay Hooker

“Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of the ninth century AD. Today's Icelanders, with considerable effort, can understand people from the Scandinavian peninsula, but the Scandinavians hardly understand the Icelanders. A thousand years is the minimum time span for a language to change so much that it becomes incomprehensible.”

“Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.”

Ifs Earth Effort Enemy Atheism Worst Mankind Ought Positive Atheism Theology Sufficient Worst Enemy

Author:Lydia M. Child

“When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.”

Thinking Mind Turns Effort Forever Atheism Mercy Rewards Positive Atheism Myth Bleak Lone Revulsion Confiding

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God, gaveus relgions which coule not possible maintained without belief and obedience: ... we find them most permanent and changeless among people who make the least effort to swquare their beliefs with the laws of life.”

People Men Mind Law Belief Effort Atheism Positive Atheism Obedience Permanent Abstract Revelations Soar Imaginative Lofty Laws Of Life

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.”

“What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.”

Men World Has Beens Next Effort Destiny Struggle Atheism Positive Atheism

Book:Autobiographies

Source: Autobiographies

“Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a creed or set of opinions or convictions or to make people act as we want them to act, the means employed are called propaganda.”

People Want Believe Mean Made Effort Opinion Atheism Movement Conviction Positive Atheism Propaganda Organized Creeds Employed

Author:Edwin Way Teale

“Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.”

Writing Book Effort Rich Sells Guarantees Schemes Get Rich Book Writing Get Rich Quick

Book:Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts Into Books

Source: Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts Into Books

“If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, "What would make me happy?" In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn't work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs. I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.”

“To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?”

Hard Character Effort Nice Hard Work Projects Being Nice

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I will not stop in our efforts to hunt down and kill the terrorists.”

Effort Down And Terrorist Hunts

Author:John F. Kerry

“Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.”

“Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a set, it's a collaborative effort. It's about me being a tool for somebody else to create a story and a character from nothing, from their imagination.”

Character Stories Film Imagination Effort Comedy Tools Missions Solo Collaborative Effort

Author:Dane Cook

“Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.”

Stuff Effort Proud Take Time Doing Good

Author:Howard Gordon

“All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.”

Feels Hard Stuff Results Effort Hard Work Creating Lawyer Working It

Author:David Copperfield

“Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.”

Sometimes Justice Effort Steady Thunderbolts

Author:Barack Obama

“There's no "I" on the football field. We have a total commitment to each other when we're out there. There is no doubt. It doesn't matter. The wins and losses of the game don't resonate with us. What resonates with us is "how much effort would you give for the man next to you."”

Men Giving Matter Next Games Winning Loss Effort Doubt Fields Football He Man Commitment No Doubt Football Field Wins And Losses

Author:Ray Lewis

“If I had been literate, I wouldn't have sold drugs. I just wanted a job. I would have worked at McDonald's. And I would have put the same effort into the fries and mopping the floor that I would have put into drugs. I'm the kind of person that always wants to do a job the best I can. I don't believe in half-doing jobs.”

Ifs Want Believe Kind Persons I Can Wanted Jobs Effort Half Drug Don't Believe Mcdonalds Fries Mopping

Author:Rick Ross

“I definitely make an effort to work on different styles of music: not working on too many post-rock bands, or too many heavy bands, or too many folk bands, or just whatever. I have no desire to be known as somebody that just works on a single style of music and would rather avoid it, actually.”

Different Desire Effort Known Rocks Style Band Folks Heavy Posts Rock Bands Different Styles

Author:John Congleton

“I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing creature, and still am, I guess. It's sort of simplistic to think that one tries to make stuff that accounts for one's repulsiveness as a person, but there's some truth to it. So, when I read something unfavorable, I always take it deeply personally. It's as if my efforts have been in vain, and I should just quit.”

Ifs Thinking Should Trying Persons Has Beens Stills Kids Used Stuff Effort Creatures Deserve Accounts Quitting Vain

Author:Chris Ware

“A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an audience, especially with young kids, especially because it [classical music] is not that popular. You don't see it on TV, you don't hear it on radio, so you really gotta put an effort into promoting classical music.”

Kids Young Order Interest Realizing Effort Audience Tvs Music Is Radio Colleagues Promoting Classical Music

Author:David Garrett

“German economic salvation has been brought about solely through the efforts of the German people and the experience they have gained. Countries abroad have contributed nothing to this.”

People Has Beens Country Effort Economic Salvation

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.”

Mean Art Ideas Self Spirit Lying Artist Effort Secret Vision Creative Art Is Intuition Intimate Works Of Art Wellspring Concurrence

Author:Jacques Maritain

“Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.”

Ifs Way Eye Spirit Certain Speak Effort Grace Tomorrow Comfort Promise Offers Practicals Assurance Reminders Tangible Console Extending Bruised Best Effort Better Days Dearest Friend

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.”

Way Needs Looks May Children Spirit Effort Sacrifice Personality Development Adults Empty Filled Constant Guides Convinced Look Up Helpless Lacking Behalf Zeal

Author:Maria Montessori

“Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.”

“Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.”

Way Hard Artist Individual Easy Difficult Effort Succeed Organization Athlete Be Good Worthwhile Bats

Author:John Gruber

“No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.”

Effort Mistake Failing Discipline Likes Mortals Champion Making Mistakes

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.”

Effort Geography

Author:Paul Bowles

“The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.”

Self Form Desire Effort Behinds Edges Arise

Book:Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

Source: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

“What I'm most deeply grateful for is that God's love for us, approval of us, and commitment to us does not ride on our resolve but on Jesus' resolve for us. The gospel is the good news announcing Jesus' infallible devotion to us despite our inconsistent devotion to Him. The gospel is not a command to hang on to Jesus; it's a promise that no matter how weak and unsuccessful our faith and efforts may be, God is always holding on to us.”

“The great man is always the man of mighty effort.”

Men Effort He Man Training Great Men

Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”

Thinking May Littles President Effort Responsibility Republican Standards Democrat Congress Resisting Macs Mae

Author:William J. Clinton

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