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Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.”

Persons Effort Painting Blind Desperate Abandoned Helpless Surroundings

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“I think it would be nearly impossible to find someone who has contributed more to South Carolina than Carroll Campbell. His efforts to transform South Carolina's economy and raise our state's income levels are still paying dividends today.”

Thinking Stills States Would Be Today Levels Effort Economy Impossible Raises South Income Impossibility Carolina Dividends South Carolina

Author:Mark Sanford

“Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.”

Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

“Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.”

Effort Bottom

Author:Bill Toomey

“To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.”

May Effort Youth Shadow Ruins Awful Score Incentives Wrecks Visualization

Author:Mary Church Terrell

“The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.”

World Long States Effort Security Weapons Mass Capable Destruction Threat Iraq Liberation Range Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Rogues Obtaining

Author:Armstrong Williams

“Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.”

Should Effort Huge Commitment Strategy Habitual

Author:Sonja Lyubomirsky

“I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize.”

Knows Opportunity Easy Chance Effort Approach Pressure Glasses Offensive Second Chance

Author:Andy Kennedy

“Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.”

Way Trying Choices Decision Effort Keys

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.”

Ifs Thinking Space Effort Practice Middle Approach Artistic

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes.”

Way Firsts Purpose Realizing Effort Teaching Achieve Students Breakthrough Better Ways Freeze

Author:M. H. Abrams

“No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.”

Spirit Effort Compassion Brotherhood Larry Usaid

Author:Andrew Natsios

“NASA appreciates the efforts of Congress to resolve restrictions placed on our partnership with Russia. Congress' action helps to ensure the continuous presence of U.S. astronauts on the International Space Station.”

Helping Action Space Effort Appreciate International Congress Russia Stations Resolve Partnership Restriction Astronaut Nasa International Space Station

Author:Michael D. Griffin

“I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world.”

World Trying Believe I Believe Effort Goes On Paid West Knees Insult Boots Approval Permission Pathetic Westerners Insults You

Author:Mahesh Bhatt

“China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.”

Should Important States Effort Four Serious Members Disease Bird Organization China Russia Target Combat Cooperation Asian Flu Prevention Infectious Diseases Bird Flu

Author:Wen Jiabao

“The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.”

Ifs Ends Helping Effort Progress Iraq Witness Occupation

Author:Amr Moussa

“Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.”

Ifs Needs Years Two Ends Hands Next Speak Deals Effort Week Stage Keys Succeed Rounds Critical Agriculture Two Weeks Padlocks

Author:Celso Amorim

“It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.”

Ifs Needs Effort Willing Areas Cards Advertising Justify Eggs Chickens San Francisco Payment Merchants Cooperatives Tipping Tipping Point Metropolitan

Author:David Robertson

“The credit card business is a success story and that's where Citigroup has put most of its efforts so far. Now Citigroup wants to extend the cooperation and success to more areas.”

Want Stories Effort Areas Credit Cards Cooperation Credit Card Success Stories

Author:Zhang Xi

“NSEERS was so poorly conceived and badly managed that it created chaos and fear. Trust between the immigrant community and law enforcement was severely strained and, in the end, there was no evidence that any terrorists were apprehended as a result of the effort.”

Ends Law Community Results Effort Evidence Chaos Terrorist Immigrants Law Enforcement Enforcement

Author:James Zogby

“Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a local level. We'd expect employers in other states to use this site as they consider where in Massachusetts to locate or expand their presence.”

States Use Community Levels Effort Technology Economy Environment Competition Locals Site Employers Global Economy Massachusetts Competitiveness

Author:Christopher Anderson

People Ifs Way May Feelings Causes Effort Five Minutes Benefits Organization Profit Customers Related Employee Five Minutes Packages Retention

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.”

World May Effort Danger Depends

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.”

Firsts Wells Body Able Process Effort Months Couple Weight Train Lifts Australia

Author:Brandon Routh

“In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.”

Done Age Past Easy Effort Contact Abstraction

Author:Piet Mondrian

“There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.”

Two Effort Rewards Punishment Best Effort Stimulants

Author:John Moulder Wilson

“All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.”

Real Action Individual Force Effort Acting Exercise Spring Energetic Spurs Real Freedom

Author:Anna Brackett

“Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.”

May Children Art Effort Sacrifice Produce Periods Despair Luck Raising Children

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems. Observing that lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noticed that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decided to concentrate all their energies on a specific objective, they begun to surmount the most difficult odds.”

People Way Moments Helping Problem Found Energy Difficult Goal Effort Practice Achieve Decided Adversity Objectives Odds Proven Helping People Observing Psychiatrist Personal Goal

Author:Ari Kiev

“To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.”

Effort Trouble Becoming Clouds Floats Becoming One

Author:Robert Genn

“We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.”

Born Effort Focus Skills Constant Initials Upgrading

Author:Robert Genn

“I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.”

Knows Art Made Character Effort Situation Accepting Greater Acceptance Ordinary Art Is Strive Everyday Incline

Author:Lawren Harris

“The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need for redoubling our efforts in this organization to try to assure that democracy as represented by the United States must depend upon a total freedom of religion, which is written into our Constitution, of course, and the mere suggestion that anyone could maintain that one's patriotism, one's devotion to one's country can be judged by one's religion is so vile, so vile that we have to take to the streets indeed and to put it aside.”

“This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.”

“Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.”

Moving Effort Moving Forward Fitness Motivational

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.”

Art Said Done Certain Effort Attitude Opinion Grace Impression Accomplished Nonchalance

Author:Baldassare Castiglione

“The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.”

Thinking Men Justice Results Effort Education Teaching Information Diversity All Things Social Justice Mere

Book:The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

“Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.”

Effort Despite Get Better Things Will Get Better

Author:Will Rogers

“It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.”

“Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.”

Way Effort Plans Labor Work Effort

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.”

Happiness Joy Lying Effort Moral Creative Achievement Mad Mere Forgotten Profit Possession Thrill Stimulation

Book:Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.”

Men World Spirit Effort Greater He Man Criticism Meetings Critics Various Wide Great Men Stations Association Approval Exalted

Book:Andrew Carnegie: His Methods with His Men

Source: Andrew Carnegie: His Methods with His Men

“. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.”

Long War Effort Drug Disease Solutions Treats Prison Jail Users Long Ago Alcoholism Alcoholics Toss Offenders

Author:Tom McCall

“We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.”

Men Helping Winning Effort Quality He Man Neighbor Admire Manhood Strife Prompts Actual Life

Book:Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt

“If someone wants to be a part of your life, They'll make an effort to be in it. So don't bother reserving a space in your heart for someone Who doesn't make an effort to stay. ERASING someone from your mind is so easy... But REMOVING the same person from your heart is ANOTHER STORY. Pin It Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.”

Ifs Want Love Mind Heart Persons Sometimes Stories Easy Space Effort Magic Illusion Bother Pins

Author:Javan

“We must never lose sight of the fact that we must take part in the development, not only of ourselves but of all humanity... I want you to understand that there never was or has been or will be, in the minds of the founders, including myself, the thought of any reward any notice coming to us for this experiment in brotherly cooperation and comradeship, which we initiated and which has developed, not necessarily because of any efforts of ours, into one of the best regarded organizations in the Negro collegiate world.”

World Want Mind Has Beens Facts Humanity Loses Effort Development Organization Sight Rewards Including Experiments Cooperation Founders I Want You Brotherly Comradeship

Author:Jewel

“I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.”

Ifs Effort Determined Dues

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.”

Said Done Shows Certain Effort Design Practise Courtiers Nonchalance

Book:The Book of the Courtier

Source: The Book of the Courtier

“A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been living upon the mercies shown by others, and by the chances obtainable, and have suffered there from, so we will in the future suffer if an effort is not made now to adjust our own affairs.”

Ifs Made Past Suffering Dies Chance Effort Race Existence Economic Mercy Affair Dependent Sooner Or Later

Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

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