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“The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.”

Long I Can Lasts Guy Effort Couple Distance Long Distance

Author:Holly Madison

“Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry and my colour to do that for me which I should do for myself. Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort”

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“There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

Source: Starship Troopers

“We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.”

Men May Different Reason Facts Form Effort Poverty Successful He Man Masters Thousand Achievement Misery Defeat Despite Chiefs March Undertakings

Book:The Law of Success

Source: The Law of Success

“God is one, supreme among gods and men, and not like mortals in body or in mind.The whole [of god] sees, the whole perceives, the whole hears. But without effort he sets in motion all things by mind and thought.”

Men Mind Whole Body Effort All Things Supreme Mortals Perceive Mind And Thoughts

Author:Xenophanes

“Our policy is not to discourage the private sector, but to see that Air India plays the role of flagship in the industry. In the transport sector, Air India is the 'fate of India' and all efforts will be made to restore its past glory.”

Made Play Past Effort Roles Fate Air Policy Industry Glory India Discouraging Transport Private Sector

Author:Vayalar Ravi

“Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism”

Effort Ready International Terrorism Combat Syria Coordinates

Author:Walid Muallem

“The Bishops of the Philippines have asked that this year be set aside as the ‘Year of the Poor.’ I hope that this prophetic summons will challenge everyone, at all levels of society, to reject every form of corruption which diverts resources from the poor, and to make concerted efforts to ensure the inclusion of every man and woman and child in the life of the community.”

Men Years Children Form Community Challenges Poor Levels Effort Men And Women Resources Corruption Every Man Rejects Inclusion Bishops Prophetic Philippines

Author:Pope Francis

“My favorite type of photography - apart from fashion photography - is journalism, which in a way documents something that exists in a very precise moment, that didnt exist in a moment before and will not exist ever again. This has influenced my work a lot - I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.”

Way Trying Looks Moments Effort Fashion Type Photography My Favorite Journalism Documents Precise Fashion Photography

Author:Mario Testino

“Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.”

Process Decision Results Effort Risk Needed Expectations Planning Organized Feedback Strategic Entrepreneurial Systematic Measuring Risk-taking Strategic Planning

Book:Management

Source: Management

“Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!”

Years Has Beens Lost Prayer Effort Praying Breakthrough Our Prayers Fasting

Author:T. B. Joshua

“We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.”

Ifs Goal Effort Impossible Aim Diminish

Author:Dorothy Day

“That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort.”

Effort Deserve Chairman Chairman Meow

Author:Magnus

“It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit.”

Author:Greg Peterson

“Your love is the ultimate love that empowers all your efforts, a true love for what is indestructibly and perpetually you.”

Love Is Effort Ultimate Empowering Ultimate Love

Author:Andrew W.K.

“You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process. Given the history of society's efforts to control women's sexuality and reproduction, this remained a revolutionary idea. No wonder it disturbed and frightened some people so deeply.”

People Men Ideas Choices Given Process Effort Wonder Protect Sexuality Revolutionary Frightened Disturbed Reproduction Revolutionary Ideas Protect Women

Author:Stephen Singular

“Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.”

Needs Stills Character Effort Watches Accomplish Stillness Minimum Hopkins

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.”

Effort Greater Middle Importance East Dialogue Middle East Amplification

Author:Francois Hollande

“Ideas don’t make money, effort does.”

Doe Ideas Effort Making Money

Book:The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll

Source: The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll

“My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.”

America Term Community Effort Violence Crime Building Partnership Earnest

Author:Janet Reno

“Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.”

Knows Men Needs May Effort Roots Emptiness Masculinity

Author:Marilyn French

“I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.”

World Years Looks Different Moving Friendship Effort Four Fans Ready Hearing Phases Close Friends Close Friendship

Author:Bill Berry

“My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.”

Certain Ability Effort Team Degrees Benefits Teammate

Author:Jason Babin

“It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.”

Humans Effort Fire Revolution Pot Gardener

Author:Judah P. Benjamin

“When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.”

Kind Law Fighting Sports Interest Effort Gone Trouble Streets Fields Caught Stuck Rough Behaviour Rugby

Author:Daniel Cudmore

“In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.”

Years Lasts Film Found Effort Saws Ten Affected Filmmaking Standing Out Astonishing Artistry American Film Workmanship

Author:Irvin Kershner

“If you want to be in fashion you have to absolutely love what you do, because it's more than a job - it's your life. This is a very intense and hard business. But don't worry, trust life. Anything you want, you are capable of getting, it just takes a combination of effort and grace.”

Ifs Want Hard Jobs Effort Worry Grace Fashion Capable Intense Combination

Author:Lori Goldstein

“Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.”

Way Want Should Kind Persons Art Book Sometimes Jobs Reading Asks Literature Easy Can Do Challenges Simple Effort Tvs Direct What You Want All Kinds Passive Obscure Interactive

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.”

Giving May Mean Goal Pleasure Effort Principles Becoming Giving Up Realization

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth”

Men Doe Matter Effort Willing He Man Amount Size

Author:Woody Hayes

“The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.”

Men World Way Littles Book Real Hard Language Effort Direct Painful Stores Invention Contact Real World Alphabet Hard Way Great Inventions

Author:B. F. Skinner

“Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people's hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good.”

“Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.”

“And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).”

Source: Race Matters: With a New Introduction

“No individual or people can achieve anything without industry suffering, and sacrifice.”

People Suffering Individual Effort Sacrifice Achieve Industry

Author:Fatima Jinnah

“Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.”

Used Common Effort Opinion Democratic Silent Communism Opposition Diverse Dogma Primitive Common Denominator Demagoguery Anti Communism

Author:Eugen Kogon

“Those who have the most, who earn the most, must give an example, because that is important for Spain's collective effort.”

Giving Important Effort Example Collectives Spain Collective Effort

Author:Luis de Guindos

“I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that's so dated: It's not about effort, it's about outcomes.”

Firsts Lasts Used Night Effort Morning Pride Office Outcomes

Author:Maynard Webb

“The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.”

Ifs Effort Ready Not Ready

Author:Sadaharu Oh

“In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.”

Made Real Past Certain Effort Half News Aim Hearted Cosmetics Half Hearted

Author:Roone Arledge

“Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.”

Kind Made States Found Interest United Effort United States Evidence Iraq Communicate Contact Operations Als Collaboration Al Qaeda

Author:Richard Ben-Veniste

“A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.”

Simple Effort Principles Members Thanks Propaganda Labour Conventions June Supervision

Author:Leon Jouhaux

“My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.”

Facts Fighting Effort Changed Cancer Medical Breasts Arena Breast Cancer

Author:Evelyn Lauder

“My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.”

Firsts Children Two Dream Effort Study Areas Pilots Parallels Pursued Astronomers

Author:Claude Nicollier

“Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts”

Effort Luck Lady Luck

Book:A Gift to my Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

Source: A Gift to my Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.”

“What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.”

Effort Pride Birth Prejudice Accidents Sweat Brows

Author:Robert Breault

“Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?”

Ifs Trying Effort Meditation Ego Conscious

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.”

Ifs Mean Persons Government Given Term Work Effort Responsibility Serious Office Golf University Clubs Agency Faculty Yield Given Up Quota Golf Clubs Dropouts Government Agencies

Book:The Recovery of Confidence

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?”

Ifs Looks Motivational Games Natural Effort Rivers Riding Rowing Playing Games

Author:Frederick Carl Frieseke