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“It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.”

Country Action Interest Imagination Effort Depends Easier Stupidity Alternatives Sinister

Book:Opinions, Random Reflections, and Wayside Sayings

Source: Opinions, Random Reflections, and Wayside Sayings

“I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.”

People Littles Light Actors Process Effort Musician Cameras Working With Others

Author:John Cusack

“[I am] saddened, saddened, that this president [Bush] failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to go to war. Saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country.”

Giving Kind War Country President Effort Giving Up Critical Our Country Diplomacy President Bush Diplomatic Saddened

Author:Tom Daschle

“If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.”

Ifs Effort Failing Depends Amount Succeed Peaceful Resolve Endeavor Great Future

Author:Akio Morita

“Young people can be the catalyst for starting the effort to redefine what's important in America.”

People Important America Young Effort Starting What's Important Catalyst

Author:Andrew Shue

“I think the way you can tell if a guy and girl are in a serious relationship is whether or not they have black and white pictures of themselves together. That's the real test. Because it takes effort to get nice black and white photos. If you've gone that far, there's no turning back.”

Ifs Thinking Way Real Together Guy Girl Black White Effort Gone Nice Serious Tests Black And White No Turning Back Serious Relationship

Author:Aaron Karo

“You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do. Are you going to make mistakes? Of course. But it is not failure if you make the full effort.”

Ifs Knows Heart Courses Effort Mistake Failing Capable Making Mistakes

Author:John Wooden

“Stop wishing & start doing! Your lack of effort won't affect a true hustlers ambition. Perseverance through adversity is key.”

Wish Effort Keys Ambition Adversity Perseverance

Author:Behdad Sami

“I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.”

People Trying Persons Helping Stories Happens Effort Behinds Environment

Author:Benjamin Carson

“The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.”

Today Used Opportunity Interesting Effort Land Type Cost Advantage Chains Expensive Most Interesting Taking Advantage Food Chain Biofuels Opportunity Cost

Author:Bill Gates

“If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical art, a single pleasing story or proverb (the acquisition of which would require no effort), what a vast stock of learning he might lay by. Seneca is therefore right when he says: "Life is long, if we know how to use it." It is consequently of importance that we understand the art of making the very best use of our lives.”

Ifs Knows Men Long Art Stories Use Might Life Is Hours Effort Know How Our Lives Importance Lays Branches Fragments Acquisition

Author:John Amos Comenius

“I wear no makeup in real life. I'm very simple. That may be why I go over the top for the red carpet. But otherwise, I'm very plain. I should make more of an effort, actually.”

Should May Real Simple Effort Red Real Life Makeup Carpet Red Carpet Over The Top No Makeup

Author:Eva Green

“We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.”

Effort Focus Solutions Discovering

Book:A Simpler Way

Source: A Simpler Way

“You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.”

Sin Perfect Effort Ought

Book:The Way of Perfection

Source: The Way of Perfection

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”

Thinking May Sometimes Strong Walks Effort Path Keys Letting Go Holding On Unlocking Continuous Effort

Author:Winston Churchill

“The attitude, 'You can win if you want to badly enough,' means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too 'tough' to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner's ideals and dreams.”

Ifs Want Mean Enough Dream Order Winning Effort Attitude Conditions Amount Tough Ideals Constant Punishment Tied You Can Win Will To Win

Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.”

Believe Effort Stones England Enormous Mysterious Devices Arrangements Crude Computing Druids Stonehenge

Book:Dave Barry in Cyberspace

Source: Dave Barry in Cyberspace

“Over the years, there certainly have been plenty of ideas that I've had and given up on, but for this one, the only thing that was standing in its way was me doing it - I just had to write it... And then if it didn't happen, it didn't happen. But I didn't want it to be for lack of effort on my part, so I had hunch that it would be a good story and that we would work well together. And it certainly worked out that way.”

Ifs Way Want Writing Years Wells Has Beens Ideas Stories Happens Would Be Together Given Effort Standing Plenty Given Up Good Story Hunches

Author:Paul Reiser

“I have a friend who's collecting unemployment insurance. This guy has never worked so hard in his life as he has to keep this thing going. He's down there every week, waiting on the lines and getting interviewed and making up all these lies about looking for jobs. If they had any idea of the effort and energy that he is expending to avoid work, I'm sure they'd give him a raise.”

Ifs Giving Ideas Hard Jobs Lying Guy Energy Waiting Lines Effort Week Raises Unemployment This Guy Collecting Making Up Looking For A Job

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.”

Different Results Effort Tears Sympathy Sweat My Sympathy Salty Sweat And Tears

Author:Jesse Jackson

“We can begin ever so modestly. We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs. . .I fear that so many feel that a long-term food supply is so far beyond their reach that they make no effort at all. . .Begin in a small way, ... and gradually build toward a reasonable objective.”

Way Needs Feels Long Three Term Effort Week Months Objectives Long Term Reasonable Three Months Basic Needs Food Supply

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“You might be a redneck if in an effort to watch your cholesterol, you eat Spam Lite.”

Ifs Might Effort Watches Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If Cholesterol Spam

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool.”

Looks Kind Persons I Can Three Effort Focus Four Shots Cameras Photograph Proof Nervous Sheets Really Cool

Book:Dennis Hopper: Interviews

Source: Dennis Hopper: Interviews

“When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.”

People Stories Able Film Interesting Effort Morning Groups Stage Picks Wake Up Painter Waking Group Effort

Author:Sean Penn

“If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs.”

Ifs Needs Feelings Fighting Simple Effort Harmony Ease Recurring

Book:He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“Talking to celebrities is too much effort. They all think the same.”

Thinking Effort Talking Too Much

Author:Simon Cowell

“Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.”

Games Sports Effort Basketball Approach Agendas Inspirational Sports

Author:Phil Jackson

“The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up. I had run a show that had already existed and had been created by the show-runner, Meredith [Stiehm]. It's a very different experience to come in at ground zero and meet people and assemble the cast and crew. As a group and as a family, we're creating this world.”

People World Different Shows Running Effort Groups This World Creating Casts Intense Zero Surprising Crew Runners Different Experiences Ground Zero Surprising Things

Author:Veena Sud

“That was a very different emotion and I felt Dido's words would be good and I had a template with my voice in it. Then, when he heard it, he wanted both our voices together in it and that's the scene when he sees the boy and then he gets charged to go on that final cutting effort.”

Different Would Be Wanted Together Felt Voice Effort Emotion Boys Cutting Heard Goes On Scene Finals Be Good Different Emotions Dido

Author:A. R. Rahman

“On set, I like to be treated just like a normal adult actor. We all put as much time and effort into our craft as adults, and maybe even more because we have school to do and a lot of things to figure out.”

School Actors Effort Figures Normal Adults Treated Crafts

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“Harry [Styles] is like a younger brother. We do exercises together then he asks me to prepare a sandwich for the effort.”

Together Asks Effort Style Brother Exercise Ask Me Sandwiches Younger Brother

Author:Liam Payne

“When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that change is possible - and enough evidence of failure to say that it isn't likely. Both of those lessons are important.”

Years Looks Important Enough Bigs Past Effort Company Lessons Evidence Over The Past Big Companies

Author:Peter Senge

“Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.”

Want Choices Process Realizing Effort Creative Design Series What You Want You Choose Fabric Mills Collaborative Effort

Author:Marc Jacobs

“Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.”

Humans Self Body Individual Effort Attention Fields Communication Conscious Cameras Betrayal Documents Human Body Examination Self Conscious

Book:Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life

Source: Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life

“Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!”

Lost Goal Effort Sight

Author:Saul Gorn

“Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you it's a good idea to buy a developing mind a video game?”

Giving Mind Ideas Kids Games Parent Effort Raises Video Developing Good Ideas Crap Minimal Effort

Author:Louis C. K.

“In an effort to look cool, I am going to stop shouting Hey, you! at airplanes.”

Looks Effort Hey Airplane Shouting Hey You

Author:Dana Gould

“Michael Jackson's charity efforts? Mmm. I'm sure they have nothing to do with his molestation charges.”

Effort Charity Molestation

Author:Christian Finnegan

“All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.”

World Enough Faces Effort Planets Crisis Sustainability Conservation Our Planet

Author:Naveen Jain

“Being constructively critical is good, as long as your purpose is to improve your methods for future endeavors. Lying in bed and replaying failures and telling yourself you're stupid is a tremendous disservice to your efforts and what you can offer the world.”

World Long Lying Purpose Effort Stupid Offers Bed Method Critical Endeavor Disservice You Re Stupid Future Endeavors

Book:The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)

Source: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)

“Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e. companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.”

Wells Helping Suffering Dies Opportunity Effort Company Focus Entrepreneur Intensity Distraction Starvation Indigestion

Author:Naveen Jain

“My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.”

Mind Opportunity My Own Ability Effort Brain Elements Educational Educate Expanding Extending Philanthropic

Author:Naveen Jain

“I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any visual taboos. But then, at the heart of the event, my effort is to disappear, I introduce a distance that borders on indifference.”

Want Heart Moments Shows Body Views Effort Events Distance Point Of View Disappear Borders Indifference Visuals Introducing Taboo

Author:Luc Delahaye

“I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but the camera always reveals something more vulnerable, despite our best efforts.”

Thinking Way Believe Difficult Effort Cameras Despite Vulnerable One Way Vulnerability Portraits Indication Presenting Best Effort

Author:Katy Grannan

“It is easy to look at these waves, accomplishing so little and to think that no matter what efforts we put forth in our lives, all we're really doing is rearranging the sand grains in a beach that in essence never changes.”

Thinking Looks Littles Matter Easy Effort Our Lives Essence No Matter What Wave Beach Sand Grain Never Change Rearranging

Author:Neal Stephenson

“While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.”

Ifs Men Use Eye Girl Father Hours Space Effort Feet Weapons Prepared Edges Critical Accepted Wheels Satisfying Knives Devoted Tense Brides Razors Daggers Open Spaces Mistreat

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're writing about the temperature of the water in some part (they don't specify which) of some damaged reactor, illustrating it with video screen grabs of machinery they don't understand enough to explain.”

Writing Heart Enough Water Lines Effort Fronts Tvs Screens Newspapers Video Recovery Publishing Flavor Essays Machinery Temperature Lone Bloggers Lone Wolf Heart Wrenching Illustrating

Author:Tim Bray

“And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach conclusions about the vast splendour of its great gardens. They can, if their souls' strings are finely tuned, arrive with much less effort at the feeling of eternity; for everything we do, they may dream. And precisely where our deeds end, theirs begin to bear fruit.”

People Ifs Way May Soul Ends Feelings Dream Moving Effort Flower Bears Garden Eternity Embrace Fruit Deeds Conclusion Manage Strings Infirmity Splendour Embrace Life Great Garden

Book:Diaries of a Young Poet

Source: Diaries of a Young Poet

“Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make any policy recommendation other than this: We need to redouble our efforts to make America stronger and healthier so it remains a vibrant counterexample to whatever bigoted ideology may have gripped these young men....And the best place to start is with a carbon tax.”

“Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.”

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