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“I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.”

Long Done Kids Girl Effort Football Amount Shots Work Done Long Shots

Author:Thomas J. Sargent

“It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth”

Men Doe Matter Effort Willing He Man Amount Size

Author:Woody Hayes

“Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.”

Whole Christian Causes Effort Trouble Amount Flesh Whole Life Avoided Expenditures Solicitude

Book:Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

“PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics.”

Want Problem Pain Pleasure Effort Objects Amount Economics Ultimate Expenses Desirable Calculus Pain And Pleasure Undesirable

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.”

Effort Cases Amount Normal Scientist Mere Curiosity Satisfaction

Book:The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs.”

Men Wells Real States Form Politics Effort Economy Amount Disease Solutions Liberalism Abandon Unhealthy Crippled Get Well Wheelchairs

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!”

Ifs Has Beens Earth Effort Ought Amount Intellect Theology Doctrine Sufficient Labour Shallow Employed Puddles

Author:Lydia M. Child

“The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

Want Humans Certain Forget Animal Effort Struggle Amount Essentials Mere Absence Remove Ingredients Indispensable Adapted Human Animal

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our party]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.”

People Fighting Force Wish Party Effort Failing Amount Taxes Bills Corporations Anxious Schedules Resorts Headlines Reduction Friction Splitting Tariffs

Author:William Howard Taft

“When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.”

Way Doe Effort Amount Cost Profound Manufacturing Robotics

Author:Hod Lipson

“The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.”

Should Enough Effort Movement Amount Cat Cameras Tables Jumping

Author:Steve McQueen

“If you're playing a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.”

Ifs Looks Kind Persons Character Effort Consciousness Records Huge Amount Historical

Author:Colm Meaney

“Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.”

Mind Long Has Beens Turns Effort Materials Amount Weight Scales Sufficient Pairs Satori

Author:Alan Watts

“In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.”

“Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.”

Giving Might Effort Amount Investment Profit Stakes Philanthropy

Author:Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

“In evaluating potential vendors, accurately estimating total cost of ownership is critical. Yet, this is often an area where companies don't put the right amount of effort. This tool can help those looking at Warehouse Management Systems get their arms around this key issue.”

Helping Effort Company Issues Arms Keys Amount Cost Areas Tools Management Critical Ownership Warehouse Vendors Estimating Management Systems

Author:Dan Gillmor

“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

“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)

“We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place; the last thing we were going to do is lay them off.”

People Way Firsts Lasts Effort Company Taken Amount Lays Apples Bubbles Dots Downturn

Author:Steve Jobs

“Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational.”

People Men Wells Has Beens Form Effort Amount Ordinary Rational Alternatives Well Being Goods Leisure Devoted Toil Persuasion Ordinary People Phenomenal Indoctrination

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to something demonstrably less legible than something else would be if we could get used to it, we should make no effort to scrap the existing thing. This was done by the Florentines and Romans of the fifteenth century; it requires simply good sense in the originators & good will in the rest of us.”

Ifs Should Done Would Be Used Effort Practice Century Amount Accustomed Good Will Good Sense Scrap Legibility

Author:Eric Gill

“Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.”

Effort Virtue Humility Amount

Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne

“The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.”

Doe Girl Effort Return Amount Achievement Queens Factories Capitalist Providing Silk Stockings

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.”

“Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities.”

Energy Growth Effort Risk Economic Amount Taxes Judgment Investment Financial Heavy Drag Load Incentives Risk-taking Tax System

Author:John F. Kennedy

“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

“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

“When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.”

Knows World Two Effort Novel Week Stage Amount Bed Finished Massive Two Weeks Manic

Author:Sherman Alexie