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“My dad told me this: You get out of it what you put into it. If you put in effort and log your time, you'll get the results.”

Ifs Results Effort Dad My Dad

Author:Tiger Woods

“A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them”

Men World Found Individual Effort Player Greatness Skills Chess Trials Permanent Great Men Display Constructs Confined Trophies Momentary Chess Players Individual Effort

Author:William Hazlitt

“Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress for a different party (i.e., wear black tie to a cocktail party, or tennis clothes for lunch), so much the better. You give the impression of being much in demand.”

Ifs Giving Looks Made Different Goal Black Party Effort Events Particular Demand Clothes Dresses Impression Ties Tennis Lunch Cocktails Cocktail Parties Black Tie

Author:Lisa Birnbach

“Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea where they will end up. They are like riders who gallop into the night, eagerly leaning on their horse's neck, peering into a blinding rain. And they have to do it over and over again.”

Ideas Ends Action Artist Night Courses Bits Effort Creativity Essentials Rain Horse Necks Riders Holding Back Catapults

Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

“Even those who lose the battle are not cowards - if they have fought.”

Ifs Loses Effort Battle Coward

Book:Her Soul and Her Body

Source: Her Soul and Her Body

“The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.”

Men Moments Beautiful Artist Effort Behinds Laughing Imagine Color Gay Labor Disappointment Brilliant Curious Frustrated Schemes Fabric Brushes Darling Completion Sagacity

Author:Timothy Dwight V

“Wine lovers know that putting some effort into understanding and appreciating wine pays big dividends. Skillful tasting unlocks wine's treasures. It adds an extra dimension to the basic routines of eating and drinking, turning a daily necessity into a celebration of life.”

“I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.”

Process Effort Speech Freedom Of Speech Suppression

Author:Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.

“In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.”

Made War Body Used Force Effort Acting Judging Army Jury Judicial Executioners

Book:Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology

Source: Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology

“I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light.”

Knows Men Littles Light Religious Effort Conditions He Man Supreme Unbelief

Book:Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible

Source: Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible

“If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.”

“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 ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!”

Ifs Has Beens Earth Effort Ought Amount Intellect Theology Doctrine Sufficient Labour Shallow Employed Puddles

Author:Lydia M. Child

“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

“What can be said about chronic hunger. Perhaps that there's a hunger that can make you sick with hunger. That it comes in addition to the hunger you already feel. That there is a hunger which is always new, which grows insatiably, which pounces on the never-ending old hunger that already took such effort to tame. How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry.”

Ifs World Feels Said Faces Grows Effort Sick Hunger Hungry About Yourself Never Ending

Author:Herta Muller

“writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.”

World Lines Effort Draws

Book:Telegraph Avenue then

Source: Telegraph Avenue then

“It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.”

Author:Mary Butts

“Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.”

Way Life Is Realizing Effort Highest Opposites Assuming Effortless

Author:Lester Levenson

“Success consists of a series of little daily efforts.”

Littles Effort Series

Author:Mamie McCullough

“Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality.”

“I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.”

Body Effort Gym Bad Food

Author:Shakira

“Its cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values.”

People Certain Values Effort

Author:David Archuleta

“We can all agree that government cant solve the obesity crisis alone. Its an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.”

Ifs Want Long Government Term Effort Issues Crisis Agree Solve Long Term Cant Ongoing Obesity Public Sector Long Term Success Collaborative Effort

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.”

Way Kids Effort Conscious

Author:Jo Brand

“We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.”

Humans Effort Quality Rights Groups Materials Normal News Organization Responsible Human Rights Harm Lawyer Engagement Publishing

Author:Julian Assange

“I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.”

People Trying Hard Seems Effort Acting Too Much Like You Clothes Trying Too Hard

Author:Clive Owen

“Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good...”

World Wells Important Effort Economic Achieve Information Organization Spending Reform Signals Concealing

Author:Julian Assange

“I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.”

People Knows Needs Wells Effort Exercise Like Me Well Being Breathing Metabolism

Author:Al Roker

“A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.”

May Form Law Games Decision Views Effort Moral Decided Court Golf Sunday

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.”

Mind States Effort Optimism Enthusiasm State Of Mind

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.”

Believe Actors I Believe Effort Team Scene Selfish Team Effort

Author:Taraji P. Henson

“What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.”

World Needs Persons Effort Masters Responsible Disaster Around The World Relief Boss Anticipation Execution Rescue Emergencies Urgent Commanders Czars

Author:Steven Van Zandt

“It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed while I was at work. That's the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.”

Way Has Beens Easy Goal Hours Results Effort Worst Judging Setting Settings Setting Goals Easy To Judge

Book:How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

Source: How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

“When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.”

Ifs Stills I Can America Loses Effort Focus Serious Like You Hey Serious Things Hopping

Author:Maggie Q

“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

“It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.”

Way Effort Design Evolution Treats Intelligent Intelligent Design Disparaging

Author:Barry W. Lynn

“For me, the Bild-Dichtung [image-poem] is the ideal form, because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. And since I always have something to say when I am writing, the effort has a balancing effect. Drawing and writing are wonderful complements.”

Writing Form Process Effort Wonderful Effects Ideals Drawing Interrupted Complement

Author:Gunter Brus

“Full color experience is peculiarly satisfying even though it is exhausting and leaves you feeling two-thirds color blind when you're not making the effort.”

Two Feelings Effort Color Thirds Blind Satisfying Exhausting

Author:William Tapley Bennett Jr.

“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.”

“If we enjoy the benefits of peace, it is only because we have an excellent armed force and a fine socialist economy. Let us exert all efforts so that our further development may be strong and mighty, so that our numerous enemies may think well and long before they decide to attack our fatherland, and so that if they attack, they will quickly regret it.”

Ifs Thinking Wells May Long Strong Force Enjoy Effort Enemy Economy Regret Fine Development Benefits Excellent Socialist Armed Forces Fatherland Socialist Economy

Author:Kliment Voroshilov

“The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists.”

Men Long Young Sound Numbers Effort Teaching Depends Healthy Research Men And Women Scientist Core Adequate Disinterested Carrying On New Knowledge

Author:Alan Tower Waterman

“It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.”

May Asks Effort Greater Stage Development Research Expensive Construction Reduction Prototype Pertinent Stages Of Development

Author:Alan Tower Waterman

“The school children of New York State planted more than 200,000 trees within ten years from the time Arbor Day was recognized. Few similar efforts in years have been more thoroughly commendable than the effort to get our people practically to show their appreciation of the beauty and usefulness of trees.”

People Years Children Has Beens States Shows School Effort Tree New York Ten Appreciation Usefulness Commendable Arbor Day New York State Arbors

Author:Andrew S. Draper

“Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.”

Should Effort One Thing Habit Higher All Things Perfection Lifts Reaching Application Begets Thoroughness

Book:Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

Source: Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

“If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.”

People Ifs Littles Ideas Individual Nations Effort Economy Taught Habit Mass Thrift Domestic Life

Author:Julia McNair Wright

“Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen to people. But we can't be satisfied with that. We have to go to work and see how much additional trouble we can create. Misunderstanding, turmoil, effort put on all the wrong things, and then more misunderstanding.”

People Enough Happens Born Effort Trouble Dying Satisfied Bad Things Agony Unnecessary Misunderstanding Wrong Things Turmoil Indignity

Author:Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

“any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.”

Years Two Done Effort Business Projects Scales Two Years Doomed Large Scale Reorganization

Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice. ... we find ourselves inventing our lives as we go along, improvising in an effort to take advantage of the bewildering range of choices that we face.”

Today Faces Choices Effort Our Lives Majors Advantage Variety Consumers Range Trends Emphasis Marketplace Inventing Improvising Domestic Life

Author:Sally Helgesen

“But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.”

States Government Effort Violent Resistance Oppression Tyrants Non Violent True Patriotism

Author:Ron Paul

“A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.”

World Nature Effort Secret Periods Breaths Silent Wicked Wilderness Retreat Recreation Escaping Recourse Wicked World

Author:Benton MacKaye

“We don't have any intention whatsoever to use military force to solve the Palestinian problem. But when it comes to terror - when it comes to terror, I believe that military - the right military steps is a very, very complicated kind of warfare, where I make every effort not to escalate the situation.”

Believe Kind Use Problem Force I Believe Effort Situation Steps Military Intention Terror Complicated Solve Palestinian Warfare Military Force

Author:Ariel Sharon