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“The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.”

Firsts Lines Effort Defense Injury Involving Prevention

“A nuclear Iran is a - a dramatic and - and devastating potential threat to the world and to America. And - and all our efforts should be focused on making that our first priority or keeping them from having that nuclear capacity our first priority.”

World Should Firsts America Effort Capacity Threat Focused Nuclear Priorities Dramatic Iran Nuclear Iran

Author:Mitt Romney

“I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that's so dated: It's not about effort, it's about outcomes.”

Firsts Lasts Used Night Effort Morning Pride Office Outcomes

Author:Maynard Webb

“My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.”

Firsts Children Two Dream Effort Study Areas Pilots Parallels Pursued Astronomers

Author:Claude Nicollier

“Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.”

Way Firsts Children Language Given Ability Effort Too Much Praise Drawing Crude

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.”

Ifs Way Firsts Persons Long Self Effort Impossible Development Demand Tasks Importance Strive Intensity Self Knowledge Self Development Seriousness Trifles Old Ways

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“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

“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

“I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.”

Writing Firsts Made Book Helping House Effort Cold Conscious Rivers Impact Cypresses

Author:Michael Koryta

“John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political junkies, got shot in the head for his efforts, murdered in Dallas by some hapless geek named Oswald who worked for either Castro, the mob, Jimmy Hoffa, the CIA, his dominatrix landlady or the odious, degenerate FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. The list is long and crazy - maybe Marilyn Monroe's first husband fired those shots from the grassy knoll. Who knows?”

“The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.”

Ifs Firsts May Energy Loss Effort Class Civilization Succeed Tragedy Structure Unions Democratic Conquer Jungle Fixing American Life Cooperatives

Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but we are helped to understand him when we learn that he asserted, and to the end of his life maintained, his belief in an Almighty Creator and Upholder of the Universe. It did, indeed, at a later period suit the purposes of his enemies, exasperated by his tolerant spirit and his reforming plans, to proclaim him an atheist; but that sort of charge has been the commonest of missiles against troublesome thinkers in all times.”

“Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.”

World Firsts Looks States Strong Results Effort Achieve Stage Agency Disappoint

Book:Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic

Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic

“Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.”

Firsts Persons Purpose Language Goal Community Effort Quality Planets Highest Asking Single Person Wikipedia Encyclopedia

Author:Jimmy Wales

“It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.”

Giving Firsts Littles Made Self Seems Rooms Effort Known Struggle Fire Sitting Devotion Inward Declaration

Book:The Bertrams: A Novel

Source: The Bertrams: A Novel

“It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw.”

Men World Firsts War Force Effort Saws First Time War Of The Worlds Second World War Forces Of Nature

Author:Vannevar Bush

“I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.”

Knows Firsts Long America Black President Effort Race Struggle Highest Pages Finished Despite Chapters Best Effort

Author:Hillary Clinton

“In a change effort, culture comes last, not first.”

Firsts Lasts Culture Effort

Book:Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)

Source: Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)

“Tonight was a disappointing effort. I thought we competed the last three quarters but in the first quarter we did not compete, we participated, and that's not acceptable.”

Firsts Lasts Three Effort Tonight Quarters Acceptable Disappointing

Author:Dwane Casey

“[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image.”

Ifs Knows World Should Firsts Kind Christian Lying Desire Effort Kingdoms Idealist Christian Freedom

Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“I have read many, many of these first-time published efforts and often, even though some are absolutely at pro levels of production, and have very costly printing and presentation, they lack a purpose, they merely emulate successful comics that already exist... I can't stress this enough. Have something to say.”

Firsts I Can Book Enough Purpose Levels Effort Successful First Time Stress Productions Comic Comic Book Presentation Printing Emulate

Author:Gail Simone

“To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.”

Ifs Way Firsts Found Religious Effort Darkness Doubt Wise Childhood Essentials Approach Simplicity Determine Gods Will Thick Impress Simplify Babe Prudent Candor

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.”

Firsts Littles Love Is Effort Grief Frightened Recalls Anguish Domain Intervals Timidity Callousness Keenness Insensibility

Author:George Eliot

“It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit center.”

Firsts Whole Jobs Loss Effort Steps Team Direct Organization Aim Independent Management Profit Selfish Damage First Steps Components Clarification

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.”

Men Firsts Humans Desire Effort Conditions Human Nature Ambition Spring Capacity Constitution Slavery Enterprise Snaps

Book:Slavery

Source: Slavery

“Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.”

Firsts Matter Effort Dangerous Built Berries Adventurer Generalization

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.”

Needs Firsts Humans Two Soul Desire Human Beings Effort Gone Loneliness Manners Consideration Good Man Civilized Inherent Good Manners Courteous Gallantry

Author:Ilka Chase

“I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people, who are producing all material and immaterial equipment necessary for the life in this country and who make all efforts for prosperity and serendipity of the society. This glorious and magnificent red flag is the symbol of the greatness and pride of these people.”

People Firsts Country Effort Greatness Materials Pride Proud First Time Red Prosperity Symbols Glorious Afghanistan Flags Magnificent Equipment Serendipity Red Flags

Author:Nur Muhammad Taraki

“One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether its good for the middle class or not.”

Firsts Looks Term Effort Class Middle Vote Importance Priorities Middle Class Deliberate

Author:Dan Maffei

“Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience.”

“If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be able to create a happier, more peaceful world. But you can't take for granted that it will happen by itself, you'll need to take action.”

People Ifs World Needs Firsts May Happens Today Able Action Young Effort Generations Century Peaceful Granted 21st Century Peaceful World

Author:Dalai Lama

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something-anything-down on paper. A friend of mine says that the first draft is the down draft-you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft-you fix it up. You try to say what you have to say more accurately. And the third draft is the dental draft, where you check every tooth, to see if it's loose or cramped or decayed, or even, God help us, healthy.”

Ifs Needs Writing Trying Firsts Helping Effort Mines Terrible Healthy Paper Thirds Checks Teeth Good Writing God Help Dental God Help Us

Author:Anne Lamott

“The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.”

Firsts Effort Good Work Vigorous Robbery

Book:The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)

“Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight.”

“I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.”

Firsts Able Found Effort Morning Effects Health My Friends Decided Quitting Newspapers Bombs Smoking Admirable Quit Smoking

Author:Albert Camus

“While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.”

Firsts Wells Stills Form Effort Cutting Be Good Journalism Rough Relevant Printed Good Journalism

Author:Lionel Barber

“In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.”

Years Firsts Has Beens States Religion Church Effort Study Regard Practicals Thirty Reasonable Thirty Years Programmes Free State

Author:Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

“The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.”

“First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955).”

Firsts Has Beens Facts Found Common Effort Pay Greater Logic Performances Investing Cancer Common Sense Cures Disagree Efficiency Analyzing Acumen Market Efficiency

Author:Paul Samuelson

“Just do your best to keep yourself in balance. One of the first things that causes Energy misalignment, is asking or demanding too much of yourself in terms of time and effort. In other words, you just cannot burn the candle at both ends, so that you are physically tired, and then expect yourself to have a cheerful attitude. So, the rule of thumb has to be: "I'm going to be very, very, very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that.”

Firsts Ends Energy Causes Term Effort Healing Attitude Too Much Balance Asking Tired Candle Very Happy Cheerful Thumbs Physically Tired

Author:Esther Hicks

“First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.”

Ifs Should Firsts War Fighting Effort Gone Forever Air Sea Involved Elements Defense Warfare

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.”

Firsts Said Sound Effort Mistake Class Television College Accents Anchors Instructors Freshman

Author:Charles M. Blow

“The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.”

People Knows Firsts Made Use Effort Situation Technology Terrible Computer China Frustrated Youtube Computer Technology

Author:Ai Weiwei

“If you FAIL, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "First Attempt in Learning". END is not the end; in fact E.N.D. means "Effort Never Dies". If you get NO as an answer, remember N.O. means "Next Opportunity".”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Firsts Mean Ends Facts Remember Dies Next Opportunity Answers Effort Failing Giving Up Never Giving Up

Author:Abdul Kalam

“The first thing I'd say to women is put aside the guilt. I think we're all genetically programmed to feel guilty for not giving total effort at the job.”

Thinking Giving Feels Firsts Jobs Effort Guilt Guilty

Author:Indra Nooyi

“Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.”

Ifs Years Firsts Today Effort Accepting Solutions Flow Bills Oil Barrels Coastal Anwr

Author:John Olver

“What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite - and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to problems rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on results.”

Source: The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking

“The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given its most extreme form in anti-Western academe. Second, it is used as a negative label for any effort by the United States, or the West, to encourage liberties, to block fanaticisms, and to make aid dependent on positive economic policies. Those concerned with the future development of their countries, and of the world, cannot afford to let obsolete resentments distort their aims.”

“If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.”

Ifs Way Giving Should Firsts Doe Asks Effort Humility Thirds Ask Me

Author:Saint Augustine

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