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“When I have my Afro and walk down the street, there's no doubt that I'm black. With this [straightened] hair, if I talk about being black on air, viewers write and say, "You're black?!" I feel [straightening your hair] is giving up a sense of your identity. Let's be honest: It's an effort to look Anglo-Saxon.”

Ifs Giving Feels Writing Looks Black Walks Effort Doubt Air Streets Honest Identity Hair Giving Up Being Honest No Doubt Viewers Afros Anglo Saxon

Author:Jami Floyd

“Samir Nasri is well dressed every day. He always makes the effort. Always. I have never seen him look anything but immaculate.”

Wells Looks Effort Well Dressed Immaculate

Author:Joleon Lescott

“Think about what you do from 9 to 5 each weekday. Now imagine you put that much effort into something you really believe in. It's incredible what you can accomplish when you have both the interest to do something original (which everyone has) and the time to make it happen (which few have).”

Thinking Believe Happens Interest Effort Imagine Originals Incredibles Accomplish Make It Happen Weekdays

Author:Ben Clymer

“I did a lot of reading. I read about democratic socialism. And I read about the efforts of people for such a long time trying to create a society in which all people can live with dignity. And that's kind of what I believe.”

People Trying Believe Kind Long Reading I Believe Effort Long Time Dignity Democratic Socialism Democratic Socialism

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Like I always say, it's a team effort. A lot of behind the scenes work goes in when we're at home.”

Home Effort Behinds Team Scene Behind The Scenes Team Effort

Author:Jordan Spieth

“I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth”

May Effort Rationalism

Book:The Open Society and Its Enemies

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies

“Make positive effort for the good.”

Author:Dainin Katagiri

“Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.”

Challenges Effort Consistent

Book:The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.”

“If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs!”

Ifs Waiting Effort Ships Desert Islands Fog Hoping For The Best

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.”

People Want Needs Believe Reason Understanding Effort Reason Why Skeptic

Author:Murray Gell-Mann

“Giving consistent effort in the little things in day-to-day life leads to true greatness. Specifically, it is the thousands of little deeds and tasks of service and sacrifice that constitute the giving or losing of one's life for others and for the Lord. They include gaining a knowledge of our Father in Heaven and of the gospel. They also include bringing others into the faith and fellowship of his kingdom. These things do not usually receive the attention or the adulation of the world.... .”

“I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.”

May Different Ends Philosophy Facts Suffering Natural Effort Hypothesis Speculation Collision Hypothetical Natural Philosophy

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

“Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us.”

World Has Beens Force Effort Sacrifice Battle Remains Finals Defeat Defeated Imperialism

Book:Che Guevara Speaks

Source: Che Guevara Speaks

“One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.”

Eye Effort Saws Sweet One Day Stones Eternity Bliss Heavenly Herbs

Book:Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg

Source: Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg

“There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope.”

War States America Effort Successful Five Policy Degrees Accomplish Reform Realms Republic Aggressive Foreign Policy Drag Blast Traitor Citizenry Insurgent Puzzling

Author:Walter Karp

“The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.”

Art Process Effort Mature Age And Youth Ages Is Just A Number

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.”

Effort Situation Successful Intensity Unnecessary Wrong Things Unlearn

Author:Tony Buzan

“Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.”

“There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.”

“Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.”

Trying Fall Effort Mets Comfortable Resistance Reform Status Quo Fall Back

Author:Robert Fritz

“The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it but what we become by it. ... Mistakes are not failures. They are proof that we are making an effort. When we understand that, we can more easily move out of our comfort zone, try something new, and improve. ... Improvement demands a commitment to grow long after the mood in which it was made has passed.”

Trying Long Made Moving Grows Effort Mistake Comfort Demand Highest Commitment Rewards Proof Improvement Mood Zone Something New Comfort Zone Toil

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.”

People Needs Trying Enough Problem Found Effort Source Circumstances Roots Distance Coming Back Need A Change Often Is

Author:John C. Maxwell

“The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.”

“Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.”

Years Has Beens Important Effort Five Elements Smart Five Years Frustration Abandon Executives Timing Recipes

Author:Peter Drucker

“Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.”

“There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?”

Two Goal Effort Greater Inspire Greed Brands Discontent Biting Snarling

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Make yourself as happy as possible, and try to make those happy whose lives come in touch with yours. But to attempt to right the wrongs and cease the sufferings of the world in general is a waste of effort.”

World Trying Suffering Effort Waste Cease Waste Of Effort

Author:James Weldon Johnson

“We appreciate the efforts of the United States, of the president, of the secretary of state, and we are ready to find any form of talks, but we have to overcome the differences between Syria and Israel to reach peace.”

States Form President Differences United Effort United States Ready Appreciate Overcoming Israel Secretary Syria

Author:Yitzhak Rabin

“When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks, years sometimes, fight yourself, try and ruin your own experiments, and only proclaim your discovery after having exhausted all contrary hypotheses. But when, after so many efforts you have at last arrived at a certainty, your joy is one of the greatest which can be felt by a human soul.”

“Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how we can. If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. It is a lack, not of certainty, but of effort. Too often we are certain that we can't before we give ourselves a fair chance.”

Source: Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design

“Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.”

Effort Industry Standards Preserves Standards Of Living National Standards

Book:Competitive Advantage of Nations: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

Source: Competitive Advantage of Nations: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

“I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.”

Source: The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt

“The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.”

Use Effort Talent Accomplish Repetition Occasional Great Talent Small Efforts

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided to that end. It is not enough for a warrior to know that the universe is energy; he has to verify it for himself.”

Knows Needs Ends Enough Universe Energy Effort Path Seeing Flow Warrior Verify

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.”

People Effort Teaching Evidence Tools Medicine Extremes Alternatives Therapists Basics Great Teaching

Author:Tracey Gold

“The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.”

Thinking Needs Results Effort Amount Right Time Right Place Unlearn

Author:Tony Buzan

“[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and verification; and it affords a boundless scope for the exercise of the highest efforts of imagination and invention.”

Imagination Effort Exercise Weapons Highest Mathematics Trials Invention Observation Comparison Faculty Principal Scope Boundless Recourse Verification

Author:James Joseph Sylvester

“Our new immigrants must be part of our one America. After all, they're revitalizing our cities, they're energizing our culture, they're building up our economy. We have a responsibility to make them welcome here, and they have a responsibility to enter the mainstream of American life. That means learning English and learning about our democratic system of government. There are now long waiting lines of immigrants that are trying to do just that. Therefore, our budget significantly expands our efforts to help them meet their responsibility. I hope you will support it.”

“While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.”

Firsts Lasts Effort One Day Guarantees Guarantees That

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Evaluation and coaching get tangled together. When this occurs, the noise of evaluation drowns out coaching efforts. Think of this like a term paper. When you get your assignment grade back (evaluation) you tend to tune out the professor notes in the margins (coaching) if the grade is higher or lower than expected.”

Ifs Thinking Together Term Effort Higher Paper Notes Expected Noise Coaching Grades Tunes Professors Margins Assignments Tangled Evaluation Term Paper

Author:Sheila Heen

“Racing comes easily to me, especially the 100 metres. That is why, no matter how fast I run the run the 100 metres, the 200 will always mean more to me, because of the effort I've put in.”

Mean Matter Running Effort Racing

Author:Usain Bolt

“All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.”

Humans Ideas Different Sometimes Problem Action Effort Plans Failing Magic Sacrifice Solutions Complexes Solve Bullets Components Human Problems

Author:Alan Carr

“Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.”

Looks Long Shows Effort Painting Periods

Author:Alex Katz

“Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.”

Book:The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)

Source: The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)

“The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.”

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.”

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.”

Values Effort Practice All Things Proof Vain Sincerity Falsehood Malice

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution

“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. One can judge objectively to what extent a person has succeeded in his task, to what degree he has realized his potentialities. If he has failed in his task, one can recognize this failure and judge it for what it is - a moral failure.”

Ifs Men Giving Persons Important Life Is Effort Moral Judging Products Personality Birth Degrees Tasks Moral Failure

Author:Erich Fromm

“Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. And everyone here will ultimately be judged - will ultimately judge himself - on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort.”

Men World Energy Goal Interesting Effort Creative Danger Building Judging Ideals Uncertainty Judged New World Creative Energy Interesting Times

Author:Robert Kennedy