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“The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt.”

Ifs World War Purpose Wish Effort Known Doubt Subjects Willing Depends Majority Aggression World History Against War

Author:Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

“Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.”

“One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.”

Men Made Life Is Names Effort Return Conflict Eternal Every Man

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual efforts.”

Men Passion Strong Effort Attention He Man Intellectual Idols Inferiors Shallow Earnest Impart Sloth Strong Passion

Author:Claude Adrien Helvetius

“Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.”

Men Years Humans Wells I Can Three Animal Effort Human Nature Genius Thousand Hundred Years Ago Extraordinary Customs Vegetables Fifteen Thousand Years Wiser Vary

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.”

Ifs Doe Effort Humility

Author:Saint Augustine

“Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Kind Fall Individual Effort Power Failing Society Collectives Individualism Fulfilled Wholeness Fulfilment

Book:Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

Source: Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

“The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.”

Desire Effort Enlightenment Strive

Author:Rajneesh

“Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself.”

Work Effort Achieve Tension Revelations Relax Work Effort

Author:Rajneesh

“As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering. The Buddha became aware at an early age that suffering is pervasive. Jesus must have had the same kind of insight, because they both made every effort to offer a way out. We, too, must learn to live in ways that reduce the world's suffering.”

World Way Life Kind Children Made Age Life Is Suffering Jesus Effort Learning Offers Filled Insight Siddhartha

Book:Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

“Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.”

Ifs Feels Looks Littles Long Hard Done Jobs Easy Water Can Do Work Loss Results Effort Excellence Yield Spells Ducks Strain You Can Do It Vitality Fatigue Work Done Output

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. Let us rip off our coats and get down to business. We may have allowed pessimism to grip us during the summer months. We may even have allowed laziness to enter our bones. Now it is up to us to throw off both lassitude and pessimism. The time has come for action, for aggressiveness.”

“The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.”

Ifs Has Beens Hands Grows Perfect Results Effort Path Keys Easier Skills Achievement Instruments Series Finals Instance Disappointed Fence Evoke Greatest Success

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955).”

Firsts Has Beens Facts Found Common Effort Pay Greater Logic Performances Investing Cancer Common Sense Cures Disagree Efficiency Analyzing Acumen Market Efficiency

Author:Paul Samuelson

“Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.”

“The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.”

Needs Loss Decision Effort Mistake Serious Aim Investing Chiefs Investors Passive Emphasis Avoidance Annoyance Serious Mistakes

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.”

Trying Values Effort Study Security Waste Judgment Beats Tests Investing Buying Urges Smallest Versus Beginners

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.”

People Effort Management Ruined Wrong Things Best Effort

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“We want best efforts guided by theory.”

Want Effort Theory Management Best Effort

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“And, partly, I had found that theory-structure was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted. As I had early discovered in school wherein I had excelled without labor, guided by theory, while many others, without mastery of theory failed despite monstrous effort. Better theory I thought had always worked for me and, if now available could make me acquire capital and independence faster and better assist everything I loved.”

Ifs Helping Wanted School Found Effort Theory Labor Independence Structure Investing Available Despite Faster Acquire Mastery Monstrous Superpower

Author:Charlie Munger

“The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom. If you merely try to bring just a little extra knowledge and cleverness to bear upon your investment program, instead of realizing a little better than normal results, you may well find that you have done worse.”

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run.”

Believe Long Made Running I Believe Decision Effort Majors Gains Investing Valuable Long Runs Business Life

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.”

World Should War Use Today Christian Religion Given Women Effort Violence Holy Sexuality Mythology Approved Frantic Christian Right Holy War

Author:Riane Eisler

“As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.”

“But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.”

Trying Mind Effort Watches Letting Go Ego Thinker Interfere Disappearance

Book:This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

Source: This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

“The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.”

People Mind Sometimes Whole Facts Passion Common Effort Creative Genius Drama Insult Injury Imaginative Creative Genius

Book:Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms

Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms

“What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But only in an isolated, insignificant manner, through feeble attempts. Do it in a grand manner from all aspects with unified efforts, and let us awaken all religions from their graves, newly revivify and form the immortal ones through the omnipotence of art and science.”

Art Stills Form Religion Effort Aspect Chaos Graves Immortal Isolated Insignificant Mold Art And Science Unified Omnipotence

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.”

Writing Literature Names Effort Personality Connections Absolutes Constant Strive Boredom Accomplished Popularity Moderates Harmonious Immorality Platitudes Versatile

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptor's ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.”

Force Effort Steps Mystery Fashion Style Expression Please Sight Studios Chips Ladders Toilets Statues Completion Sculptors Swept Away

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“He acts without contact, instructs without meeting, guides without pointing. Desires do not conflict with Him, thoughts do not mingle with Him: His essence is without qualification (takyeef), His action without effort (takleef).”

Action Desire Effort Conflict Essence Meetings Guides Contact Pointing Qualifications

Author:Mansur Al-Hallaj

“Management, in the sense of employer, is merely the agent for the public, the stockholders and the employees. It is management's job to preserve the balance fairly between all these interests, that each may have his fair share without imperiling the continuity of the effort upon which the whole depends.”

May Whole Jobs Interest Effort Share Depends Balance Fairs Management Agents Preserves Employee Employers Continuity Fair Share

Author:James F. Bell, III

“The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment.”

“I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should be united, both as teachers and pupils, in the same institution seems very desirable, but rarely in early life by a method that removes them from parental watch and care, and the protecting influences of a home.”

Source: Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage

“True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.”

Trying Mind Different Soul Effort Originals Foundation Originality Schumann

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet make no advance from that state in which it came to us from Euclid. As belonging to these imperfections, I consider the obscurity in the fundamental concepts of the geometrical magnitudes and in the manner and method of representing the measuring of these magnitudes, and finally the momentous gap in the theory of parallels, to fill which all efforts of mathematicians have so far been in vain.”

“One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.”

Sometimes Effort Lonely Oneself Degrade

Author:John Fowles

“Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.”

Long Running Effort Illusion Lonely Long Runs Maintaining

Author:Sheldon B. Kopp

“All this care for the world, we must believe, is taken by the Gods without any act of will or labor. As bodies which possess some power produce their effects by merely existing: e.g. the sun gives light and heat by merely existing; so, and far more so, the providence of the Gods acts without effort to itself and for the good of the objects of its forethought. This solves the problems of the Epicureans , who argue that what is divine neither has trouble itself nor gives trouble to others.”

World Giving Believe Problem Body Light Care Effort Sun Taken Trouble Effects Objects Produce Divine Labor Solve Arguing Heat Providence Forethought Epicurean Merely Existing

Author:Sallust

“I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.”

Years Stills Black White Effort Rights Election Locals Officials Voting Voters Sophisticated Right To Vote

Author:Edward Brooke

“The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.”

Remember Forget Effort Teach

Book:Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

Source: Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

“It could be clearly proved that by a practical nullification [by the South] of the Fifteenth Amendment the Republicans have for several years been deprived of a majority in both the House and Senate. The failure of the South to faithfully observe the Fifteenth Amendment is the cause of the failure of all efforts towards complete pacification. It is on this hook that the bloody shirt now hangs.”

Years House Causes Effort Republican Majority South Practicals Shirts Senate Amendments Bloody Hook Deprived Nullification

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Just do your best to keep yourself in balance. One of the first things that causes Energy misalignment, is asking or demanding too much of yourself in terms of time and effort. In other words, you just cannot burn the candle at both ends, so that you are physically tired, and then expect yourself to have a cheerful attitude. So, the rule of thumb has to be: "I'm going to be very, very, very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that.”

Firsts Ends Energy Causes Term Effort Healing Attitude Too Much Balance Asking Tired Candle Very Happy Cheerful Thumbs Physically Tired

Author:Esther Hicks

“No matter what the issue is, don't try to justify why you don't feel good. And don't try to justify why you should feel differently. Don't try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that's keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now.”

Thinking Feels Should Trying Matter Reason Feelings Effort Healing Issues Right Now No Matter What Blame Feel Good Uplifting Justify Feel Better Encouraging Words Of Encouragement

Author:Esther Hicks

“To make a commencement requires a mental effort.”

Effort Commencement

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation--reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.”

Children Courses Interest Effort Benefits Praise Method Rewards Appreciation Related Feedback Reinforcement Positive Feedback

Author:Lilian Katz

“Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we're forced to undergo the event twice-once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it.”

Ifs May Able Past Effort Worry Meditation Events Changed Our Past Ifs And Fretting Mishaps

Author:H. E Davey

“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What's more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools. Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully with maximum efficiency and minimum effort, we need to investigate the most effective ways of using the mind and body since, in the end, they are the only "tools" we truly possess in life.”

Way Needs Mind Wells Kind Doe Art Ends Body Inspiration Artist Certain Effort Particular Tools Function Paint Technique Efficiency Minimum Brushes Maximum Mind And Body

Author:H. E Davey

“In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.”

People America Effort Danger Internet Battle Protect Safe Weapons Terrorism Aggressive Free Speech Cyber Biological Weapons Cyber Attacks

Author:William J. Clinton

“... We have seen dog-tired Members of Congress marching lockstep ahead with their eyes fixed only on the end of the 100 Days of the 1995 Republican 'Contract with America' reform efforts. Many of the changes wrought by the House were passed without the benefit of a single hearing, or at best with a minimal legislative record. Is this what Jefferson and Madison had in mind?”

Mind Ends Eye America House Effort Records Dog Internet Republican Members Benefits Tired Congress Hearing Reform Fixed Contracts Free Speech Madison

Author:John Gibbons

“At the end of each meditation session, bow your head toward the ground. Give away your meditation to the universe. Whether you feel you have done well or poorly, simply give your efforts to the universe.”

Giving Feels Wells Ends Done Universe Effort Meditation Buddhism Bows Session

Book:Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel

Source: Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel

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