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“The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives.”

People Way Country Deals Effort Drug Waste

Author:Dave Barry

“Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available.”

Next Effort Century Resources Available Objectives Exploration Mars Symbolic Asteroids

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I get to focus on something I love to do 24-hours a day rather than trying to squeeze it in between midterms, or even during my normal workday. When I was at Google it was like you wake up at 7 and then you get home by 7 and you start your second job of music. So now I get to focus all my efforts on music, travel and play shows and do all of this stuff. That's the difference - That's all my life is, all day.”

Trying Play Shows Home Jobs Life Is Stuff Hours Differences Effort Focus Like You Normal Wake Up Google Midterms

Author:Hoodie Allen

“We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we do a very bad job of it. We don't really know. And we also spend a lot of time trying to figure out who will be a good teacher, and we're really bad at that too. We don't know if someone is going to be a good teacher when they start teaching. So what should we do in those situations in which predictions are useless?”

Ifs Knows Should Trying Jobs Effort Situation Teacher Teaching Figures Useless Nfl Predictions Quarterback Good Teacher Bad Jobs

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“A soul might very well exist, but we, as physicists, try to measure and quantify everything. So far, no one has been able to create an experiment to do this for the soul. Efforts have been made to weigh the body after death, but each time we find no evidence of a soul. So a soul may very well exist, but it is not a testable theory.”

Trying Wells May Has Beens Made Soul Body Might Able Effort Theory Evidence Experiments Physicist After Death

Author:Michio Kaku

“I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense of what Herculean effort went into writing page 23, no pretensions as to why the dull patch on page 4 is important for the fireworks that will happen on page 714.”

Ifs Writing Trying Important Stories Happens Effort Pages Investment Dull Patches Edits Pretension Fireworks

Author:George Saunders

“I've never told anyone this, in an effort to run from my past and disguise it, I got rid of all of the scrapbooks my mother kept going back to when I was a baby. Truly. So that's why whenever talk show hosts or a producer asks for these pictures, there are barely any. My sister had a few, but that's it, and this was before digital. I've never told anyone that, but that's the truth.”

Shows Running Past Mother Asks Effort Baby Producers Digital Host My Sister Disguise My Past Talk Shows

Author:Tim Gunn

“The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.”

“Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.”

Men May Spiritual Chance Effort Temper Adapting Elasticity

Book:The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy

Source: The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy

“First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.”

Ifs Should Firsts War Fighting Effort Gone Forever Air Sea Involved Elements Defense Warfare

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.”

World War Feelings Effort Failing Regret Resources Structure Defense Devoted Surveys Impart Armament Free World

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

“I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.”

World Needs Children Care Mother Effort Attention Harder Revelations More Time Save The World Being A Mother

Author:Marianne Williamson

“God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down, your willingness to believe that what they said had value, was your conspiring with them, with their effort to knock you down - I've never been able to get myself up and I've noticed that every time I ask God to pick me up - he does.”

Ifs Believe Doe Said Able Values Asks Effort Picks Willingness They Said Pick Me Conspiring Pick Me Up Pick Yourself Up

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.”

Love Heart Helping Effort Heart Love

Book:Oliver Twist, Volume 3 (of 3) (Illustrations)

Source: Oliver Twist, Volume 3 (of 3) (Illustrations)

“People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions”

People Action Belief Levels Results Effort Effects Behavior Consequence Distribution Self Efficacy

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability”

Thinking Self Problem Difficult Ability Effort Shapes Skills Solutions Seeking Attributes Insufficient Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Problems Perceived Self

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks”

People Ifs Self Hard Easy Difficult Effort Conditions Masters Hard Work Lows Tasks Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Tasks Easy Tasks Minimal Effort

Author:Albert Bandura

“People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action... they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control.”

People May Action Suffering Effort Events Exercise Activity Safe Capability Distress Threatening Adequate Coping Manageable Self Efficacy Misgivings

Author:Albert Bandura

“When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort”

People Littles Effort Particular Performances Bases Appropriate Translate Magnitude Efficacy Self Efficacy

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can”

People Knows Self Action Effort Information Factors Accurate Efficacy Self Efficacy Appraisal

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“I wouldn't say 'most' people are prone to negativity. I think it's probably that most people allow negativity to color their thinking, depending on circumstances, but I also believe most people make the necessary efforts to return to positive thinking as quickly as possible.”

People Thinking Believe Effort Positive Thinking Color Return Circumstances Negativity

Author:Zig Ziglar

“I suggest the greatest challenge to Christians in the business world is within - making the heart determination (simply put, the choice) to live by God's principles and sticking with it; making the commitment to serving Christ and mankind with our efforts, our gifts and our knowledge.”

World Heart Christian Choices Christ Challenges Effort Principles Mankind Commitment Determination Live By Serving Business World

Author:Zig Ziglar

“The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.”

Trying Mean Hard Moments Effort Welcome Power Of Now Trying Hard

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.”

Firsts Said Sound Effort Mistake Class Television College Accents Anchors Instructors Freshman

Author:Charles M. Blow

“As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of the pragmatic, political consequences of that violence. So it's an effort to attain equilibrium.”

Able Moving Political Effort Violence Grew Consequence Response Mature Projection Equilibrium Pragmatic

Author:Wole Soyinka

“China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to tell people: Look, we are the same. They want to be accepted by the international community.”

People World Want Looks Made Bigs Community Effort International China Accepted Olympics International Community

Author:Ai Weiwei

“The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.”

People Knows Firsts Made Use Effort Situation Technology Terrible Computer China Frustrated Youtube Computer Technology

Author:Ai Weiwei

“No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity.”

Writing Effort Reader Noble Coming Out Unconditional

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.”

Humor Funny Stuff Effort Quality Drug Majors Increase Profit High Quality Peddling

Book:Nothing's Sacred

Source: Nothing's Sacred

“I like the team effort of everyone pulling together to make one good project.”

Together Effort Team Projects Pulling Team Effort Pulling Together

Author:Gregg Sulkin

“There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.”

People Wells Ideas Effort Willing Hundred Great Idea

Author:Sam Altman

“You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.”

Effort Conscious Hundred Seven Founders Ninety Saying No

Author:Sam Altman

“As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.”

Ifs Thinking Grows Numbers Effort Productivity Employee Squares

Author:Sam Altman

“Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.”

Needs Believe Effort Company Example Don't Believe

Author:Keith Rabois

“I can't do the movies like I do painting because I am really more of a sort of dilettante or something. I mean I know guys that make movies that I can see it is absolutely their medium and they can just go from one movie right into the next because it is just - they have got it so much on the tips of their fingers. But for me it is a special effort.”

Knows Mean I Can Guy Next Effort Special Painting Fingers Mediums Dilettantes

Author:Red Grooms

“What I care the most is what I can do for people. I am not into it for recognition; if it comes it will happen out of my own effort.”

People Ifs I Can Happens Care Can Do My Own Effort Recognition I Care

Author:Carlos Machado

“Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense.”

Want Mean Enough Answers Effort Race Arms Defense Russia Expensive Technological Missiles Arms Race Missile Defense

Author:Sergey Lavrov

“Big efforts should be made to integrate Israel's Arab citizens into the fabric of the Israeli society and the Israeli economy. That's really the key to any further progress to do with the Palestinians beyond Israel's borders.”

Should Made Bigs Effort Economy Progress Keys Citizens Israel Borders Palestinian Fabric Israeli Integrating

Author:Moshe Arens

“I put a lot of effort in creating something fictional, yet very personal, because Shook is a defining part of me and my music: the Shook entity is much like the Batman or Superman comics characters. I like the idea that I can have this image that represents a part of me, but isn't really me, kind of like an alter ego.”

Kind I Can Ideas Character Effort Ego Creating Entity Defining Creating Something Alter Ego

Author:Shook

“I've often called the lighting for the stage the "music for the eye", because it has the same way of making an atmosphere, making a landscape, changing fluidly from one place to another without seeming effort.”

Way Eye Effort Stage Landscape Atmosphere Lighting Seeming

Author:Jennifer Tipton

“The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.”

Understanding Interest Differences Effort Genius Seeds Blogs Blogging Bloggers

Author:Lee Gutkind

“Whenever you make a big effort and take risks, getting good results and points is very rewarding.”

Bigs Results Effort Risk

Author:Dani Pedrosa

“Sometimes HR transformations have been definitions. Just because someone does an e-HR system or puts in a new talent system or changes the HR function does not mean an HR transformation has occurred. We identified four phases of HR transformation. Missing any of the four phases would be an incomplete effort.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Sometimes Would Be Effort Four Talent Missing Function Transformation Definitions Phases Incomplete New Talent

Author:Dave Ulrich

“People are more likely to support a change when they have information on it and when they participate in it. So, getting the CHRO information about the transformation and involving the CHRO in the transformation effort are critical to success.”

People Effort Support Information Transformation Critical Involving

Author:Dave Ulrich

“American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination. With countless other people of good will, they are likewise concerned that efforts to build a just and wisely ordered society respect their deepest concerns and their right to religious liberty.”

People Form Individual Community Religious Effort Liberty Rights Building Concern Concerned Catholic Committed Discrimination Unjust Good Will Rejecting Religious Liberty Safeguarding

Author:Pope Francis

“If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.”

Ifs World Way Needs Found Challenges Answers Poor Effort Business Politician Approach Conscious Tasks Vote Profit Finished Changing The World

Author:Bill Gates

“All those "getting hit/losing rings" sounds tend to be recorded toward the end of a recording session. Depending on the type of game, those efforts and screams can be pretty rough on the voice, so they usually like to record them at the end. You might do hundreds of versions of vocal sounds for a game and you can come out a little hoarse afterward.”

Littles Ends Might Games Sound Voice Effort Records Type Losing Rings Versions Rough Scream Session Vocal

Author:Roger Craig Smith

“The K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle was pounded into my head in school and I still follow it today in most of my designs. I know that my most successful efforts are the simplest. I always find myself trying to subtract detail from design concepts in an attempt to distill the idea down to the most basic communication tool.”

Knows Trying Stills Ideas Today School Simple Effort Principles Successful Stupid Design Communication Concepts Tools Details Simplest Keep It Simple

Author:Jeff Fisher

“In all the characters I play, not matter how, it's like as if there is something within me that's released. I also show my best ability and put in my best efforts.”

Ifs Matter Play Character Shows Ability Effort Best Effort

Author:Joo Won

“Japan's diplomatic efforts could have had a broader international perspective. Relations with the U.S. are, of course, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy, but the U.S. acts on its global strategy. For instance, Washington suddenly got closer to China in the early 1970s as part of its strategy against the Soviet Union.”

Courses Effort Perspective Relation Strategy Unions International China Instance Japan Soviet Soviet Union Diplomacy Diplomatic Cornerstones

Author:Sadako Ogata

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