Best effort & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.”

Men May Different Reason Facts Form Effort Poverty Successful He Man Masters Thousand Achievement Misery Defeat Despite Chiefs March Undertakings

Book:The Law of Success

Source: The Law of Success

“The Bishops of the Philippines have asked that this year be set aside as the ‘Year of the Poor.’ I hope that this prophetic summons will challenge everyone, at all levels of society, to reject every form of corruption which diverts resources from the poor, and to make concerted efforts to ensure the inclusion of every man and woman and child in the life of the community.”

Men Years Children Form Community Challenges Poor Levels Effort Men And Women Resources Corruption Every Man Rejects Inclusion Bishops Prophetic Philippines

Author:Pope Francis

“Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.”

People Form Voice Effort Deeds Engaged

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Lots of TV is kind of becoming almost the new form for adult storytelling and cinema, but still with some independent films you still have those kind of jewels that people are able to make and it takes a lot of effort.”

People Kind Stills Able Film Form Effort Tvs Becoming Adults Independent Storytelling Cinema Jewels Independent Film

Author:Alicia Vikander

“Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.”

Heart Form Purpose Energy Effort Design Fields Materials Hero Elements Advantage Series Defeat Ruins Triumph Persistence Heroic Ashes Gathering Proceeding Indomitable

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the pictures in a form which would have carried the stamp of my own effort.”

Ifs Form Found My Own Effort Mines Solutions Fruit Saved Compromise Confused Magnificent Editing Committees Stamps Hysterical

Author:Orson Welles

“The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.”

People Art Made Important Moments Problem Happens Form Difficult Effort Performances Important Things Catching Ephemeral

Author:Judith Weir

“Every possible effort should be made to stop recruiting for the Armed Forces. This may, and probably would, lead to some form of conscription being proposed or introduced. Thus would be provided a most favourable political platform upon which to fight the National Government.”

Should May Made Government Would Be Form Political Fighting Force Effort Platforms Armed Forces Conscription

Author:Stafford Cripps

“Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.”

People Way May Made Ends Past Form Culture House Sex Understanding Effort Secret Poverty Path Greater Dying Circumstances Suicide Historical Bounds Yield British History

Author:David Cannadine

“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

“The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.”

Self Form Desire Effort Behinds Edges Arise

Book:Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

Source: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

“The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.”

Knows Men Soul Form Law Effort Know How Failing Highest Ideals Prophet Destined Maxims Ideal Man

Book:The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

Source: The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

“The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, nearly all our information concerning alternative forms of early Christianity came from the massive orthodox attacks upon them.”

Form Religion Effort Christianity Successful Information Discovery Majority Alternatives Orthodox Massive Blasphemy

Book:The Gnostic Gospels

Source: The Gnostic Gospels

“The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.”

Thinking Men Mind Ideas Seems Form Effort Originals Impression Combination Receiving Finest Endeavour

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

“Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.”

Art Sometimes Form Effort Creativity Nice Effects Obstacles Accidents Satisfied Facility Creativeness

Author:Lilli Palmer

“Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.”

Self School Form Effort Deception Cheating Cheat Coast Scholarship Self Deception

Author:James E. Faust

“Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science: the theological outgrowth or offshoot known as moral theology. Its biblical foundations are meager in the sense that nothing of the kind exists in the New Testament, so it has had to achieve its ambition largely by dint of its own efforts.”

Humans Kind Form Sex Effort Existence Known Moral Achieve Special Ambition Aspect Foundation Theology Fallen Biblical Testament Prey New Testament Human Existence Theological

Author:Uta Ranke-Heinemann

“It is my observation that 98% of the people are spending 98% of their time focusing on the 98% of things that don't matter. Stopping meditation is one of the easiest, quickest and most powerful forms of meditation. It is virtually effortless and its power relative to the effort is remarkable.”

People Matter Form Powerful Effort Meditation Spending Observation Remarkable Most Powerful Relative Stopping Effortless

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.”

May Form Law Games Decision Views Effort Moral Decided Court Golf Sunday

Author:Bill Vaughan

“For me, the Bild-Dichtung [image-poem] is the ideal form, because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. And since I always have something to say when I am writing, the effort has a balancing effect. Drawing and writing are wonderful complements.”

Writing Form Process Effort Wonderful Effects Ideals Drawing Interrupted Complement

Author:Gunter Brus

“If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!”

“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

“What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But only in an isolated, insignificant manner, through feeble attempts. Do it in a grand manner from all aspects with unified efforts, and let us awaken all religions from their graves, newly revivify and form the immortal ones through the omnipotence of art and science.”

Art Stills Form Religion Effort Aspect Chaos Graves Immortal Isolated Insignificant Mold Art And Science Unified Omnipotence

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment.”

“We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our time and effort exploring those forms and have an enormous investment in the arts. We're all part of the same brotherhood as far as I'm concerned.”

Art Film Form Effort Concerned Investment Enormous Narrative Our Time Aggressive Brotherhood Dedication Exploring Gaming Narrative Art

Author:Jim Steranko

“Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or another, but it's not a personal crusade. My work is part of a larger tradition, and larger effort, involving mostly people of color, and of course some white allies as well.”

People Writing Years Wells Has Beens Form Courses White Effort Color Tradition Activism Campaigns Allies Involving Crusades

Author:Tim Wise

“American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination. With countless other people of good will, they are likewise concerned that efforts to build a just and wisely ordered society respect their deepest concerns and their right to religious liberty.”

People Form Individual Community Religious Effort Liberty Rights Building Concern Concerned Catholic Committed Discrimination Unjust Good Will Rejecting Religious Liberty Safeguarding

Author:Pope Francis

“Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.”

Government Able Form Effort Scientist International Forms Of Government

Author:Kenneth G. Wilson

“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.”

“We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.”

Needs Has Beens Light Form Lost Powerful Effort Serious Historical Casts Nostalgia Impulse Inquiry Energizing

Author:T. J. Jackson Lears

“The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction.”

Humans May Action Form Actors Effort Conditions Fashion Produce Activity Projects Conscious Consequence Flow Feedback Human History Elude Unintended Consequences

Author:Anthony Giddens

“Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.”

“We appreciate the efforts of the United States, of the president, of the secretary of state, and we are ready to find any form of talks, but we have to overcome the differences between Syria and Israel to reach peace.”

States Form President Differences United Effort United States Ready Appreciate Overcoming Israel Secretary Syria

Author:Yitzhak Rabin

“I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.”

Source: The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt

“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

“The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their efforts equal, form the great difficulty that to me appears insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society.”

Way Two Earth Form Law Natural Effort Equal Difficulty Population Productions Inequality Insurmountable

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“"Extra effort," in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns. There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it's taking on those you lead.”

Form Levels Effort Awareness Emotional Return Damage Extras Exertion Tolls Extra Effort Diminishing Returns

Book:The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.”

Has Beens Might Past Form Humanity Goal Results Effort Existence Century Solutions Ultimate Universal Prepared Crystals Ultimate Goal Betterment Perversion Cumulative

Author:Nikola Tesla

“If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.”

Ifs Want Wells Has Beens Art Shows Form Effort Poet Art Is Musical Crafts Substitutes Mastery Sonnet Fugue

Book:But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings

Source: But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings

“The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.”

Form Results Effort Leader Highest Conscious Raises Accidents Raise Up

Author:Mark Millar

“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

“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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