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“The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.”

May Character Goal Effort Achieve Events Opposites Abandon Traits Venture Discouraging Unsuccessful Achieving Your Goals Character Trait

Author:Michael Josephson

“If one insists on calling all unsuccessful efforts failures the meaning of failure is really quite benign. When trying anything new or taking on any challenge, unsuccessful efforts are an essential aspect of skill building.”

Ifs Trying Challenges Effort Building Calling Skills Essentials Aspect Benign Unsuccessful

Author:Michael Josephson

“Failure is much easier to handle if you just think of it as feedback to guide your next effort.”

Ifs Thinking Next Effort Easier Guides Handle Feedback

Author:Michael Josephson

“You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from the darkness in search of the light, and have had a difficult problem in life that you have not been able to solve in spite of great efforts. And then, when the time was fulfilled and God's hour had come, did not a solution, light, and deliverance come quite unexpectedly, perhaps quite differently than you thought?”

Needs Years Long Problem Light Able Difficult Hours Effort Darkness Long Time Solutions Solve Spite Fulfilled Deliverance Problems In Life Great Effort Difficult Problems

Author:Eberhard Arnold

“Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. Also, efforts to curtail the supply of firearms inflict collateral damage on freedom and privacy interests that have long been considered central to American public life.”

Way Long Law Interest Effort Gun Difficulty Intense Damage Encounters Privacy Users Regulation Gun Control Public Life Free Society Scrutiny Firearms Collateral Collateral Damage

Author:Daniel D. Polsby

“While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.”

Individual Effort Attention Responsibility Destiny Doubt Progress Blessing Constant Missions Vigilance Best Effort Individual Responsibility Byu Personal Best Individual Success

Author:Cecil O. Samuelson

“People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.”

People Seems Effort Release Efficient Minimum Maximum

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

“Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.”

Effort Brain Company Failing

Author:Mark Cuban

“There is only one way a boy can be sure to learn to play hockey - on the pond, on the creek, on a flooded lot. The foundation of hockey isn't really hockey at all. It's shinny, a wild melee of kids batting a puck around, with no rules, no organization - nothing but individual effort to grab and hold the puck.”

Way Play Kids Individual Effort Boys Organization Foundation One Way Hockey Ponds Batting Puck Creeks Individual Effort

Author:Lester Patrick

“Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.”

Wells Individual Effort Commitment Aim Well Being Maintaining Promoting Restoring

Author:Pope Francis

“Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Instinct is a lifesaver for sharks and entrepreneurs alike. Most people can recall times they ignored their gut only to regret it later. Learning to actually listen to your instinct is a great form of self-preservation. It's both incredibly easy and tough at the same time, but worth the effort to master.”

People Self Form Easy Effort Masters Regret Tough Entrepreneur Instinct Dare All Time Guts Recalls Ignored Underestimate Preservation Sharks Self Preservation

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over”

Force Effort Vision Careers Path Progress Products Mets Forgiving Errors Insight Genuine Resistance Remarkable Mediocrity Career Path Backing Down

Book:Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012

Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012

“Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.”

Effort Worn Ruts Worn It

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.”

Ideas Deals Effort Communication Normal Historical Substance Just One Phenomenon Lectures Involvement Psychedelic Impart Psychedelic Experience

Author:Terence McKenna

“You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.”

Needs Wells Results Effort Achieve Ordinary Extraordinary Everyday Everyday Things

Author:Warren Buffett

“[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax system...reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking.”

Effort Risk Taxes Investment Rate Financial Productions Income Checks Goods Consumption Incentives Discouraging Avoidance Income Tax Risk-taking Tax System

Author:John F. Kennedy

“What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.”

Way States Effort Balance

Author:Terence McKenna

“People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.”

People Ifs Community Results Effort Wise Excellent Lifelong

Author:Aristotle

“There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.”

Loses Effort Understood Doctors Patient Despite Doctor Who Parts Of Life Best Effort

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul.”

Soul Body Life Is Effort Blessing

Book:The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga

Source: The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga

“The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.”

“We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.”

Needs Should Remember Causes Goal Effort Sacrifice Serious Integrity Ambition Areas Intention Diminish

Book:Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)

“The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.”

Should Effort News Communicate

Author:Andy Grove

“Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort of art our innermost and carries us from town, from country, from earth, as that it must be truely a blessing of the Gods.”

Looks Art Real Country Earth Effort Divine Blessing Towns Profession Carrie Stale Vacuous

Author:Felix Mendelssohn

“No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!”

Artist Effort Fate Splendour

Author:Carl Maria von Weber

“And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a comfortable existence. That was part of the Cold War - and part of the winning side of the Cold War.”

People Made War Jobs Courses Winning Sides Effort Existence Cold Comfortable West East Germany Cold War West Germany

Author:Stefan Heym

“Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the Federal Government,' the Court tries to palm off the pertinent statutory phrase as "inartful drafting.' This Court, however, has no free-floating power 'to rescue Congress from its drafting errors.'”

Trying Mean States Shows Government Effort Court Errors Congress Phrases Rescue Federal Government Floating Palms Sensing Pertinent Drafting

Book:Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents

Source: Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents

“There is no question we need an energy policy overhaul in America. A key part of that overhaul must include moving forward aggressively with expanding nuclear energy as a renewable energy source. Storing nuclear waste is an important piece of that effort.”

“With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.”

Littles Effort Tolerable

Author:Gene Simmons

“The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.”

Humans Doe Force Effort Depends Muscles Employed Fatigue Frequency

Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

“It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course.”

Ifs Littles Courses Effort Principles Doubt Too Much Magic Example Blind No Doubt Each Day Staff Wizards Little Time Charging Rpgs

Author:Terry Pratchett

“All the study and effort toward higher consciousness can be eliminated if we do but one thing; Love it All.”

Ifs Effort Consciousness Study One Thing Higher Higher Consciousness

Author:Ken Keyes Jr.

“A great defensive effort. The one thing we have to do is make it hard for people to beat us. We're not worried about winning and losing, we just have to make the game hard”

People Hard Games Winning Effort One Thing Losing Beats Worried Winning And Losing

Author:John Calipari

“It takes a constant effort of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally.”

Mind Effort Offers Constant Abundance

Book:The Trick to Money is Having Some

Source: The Trick to Money is Having Some

“When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.”

Made Important Book Remember Film Effort Huge

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“I think also people in states like Pennsylvania know that a lot of money and effort and time needs to be spent on knitting America back together, on the bridges and the roads and the infrastructure and the education.”

People Thinking Knows Needs States Together America Effort Bridges Lots Of Money Infrastructure Back Together Pennsylvania Knitting Effort And Time

Author:Chris Matthews

“Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.”

People Want Years Believe Kind Two I Believe Effort Responsibility Depth Inspired I Believe In Two Years Filmmaking Follow Me

Author:Ang Lee

“Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast. I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters, just to show people the range that I have, and for them to be able to see the artistry beyond the color.”

People Years Looks Made Different Character Shows Able Lasts Causes Effort Color Range Last Year Artistry Guessing Different Characters

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“While the White House has condemned anti-Muslim rhetoric as divisive, the administration is also worried such talk will hurt antiterrorism efforts.”

House Hurt White Effort Administration Worried White House Rhetoric

Author:Audie Cornish

“Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.”

Play Perfect Effort Tennis Sweat Roger Federer

Author:Vicente del Bosque

“I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy with split-second timing and have an understanding of purpose to get up in the air. It requires training, confidence and mental effort. You can't have a vocabulary without the alphabet. Balanchine used to say, "Do you want to be a poet of gesture or do you want to be a physical entity?"”

Ifs Want Used Purpose Energy Understanding Effort Practice Air Poet Training Get Up Faster Appropriate Gestures Splits Timing Entity Preparing Vocabulary Correctness Alphabet Up In The Air

Author:Edward Villella

“If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.”

Ifs May Effort Too Much Products Asking Investing Designer Etc Users Time Effort

Author:Nir Eyal

“And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.”

Source: Brave New World

“Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for the Iraqis. Let's also be clear: Our problems in Iraq have not been caused by one man, and this is a moment when the administration can and must launch a major effort to gain international support and win the peace.”

Men Important Moments Problem Winning Effort Steps Support Clear Return Majors Gains International Iraq Administration One Man Brutal Dictator Saddam Hussein

Author:John F. Kerry

“Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.”

Mind States Effort Taste State Of Mind Excess Cult Olympism

Author:Pierre de Coubertin

“A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.”

Different War Past Effort Principles Poverty Groups Subjects Objects Ignorance Victory Bases Structure East Versions Asia Ruling Starvation East Asia

Author:George Orwell

“The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.”

World Firsts Character Effort Novel Elements Attempting Uncontrollable Quixotic

Author:John Irving

“Great things only come with great effort.”

Effort Great Things Great Effort

Author:Art Briles

“The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.”

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

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