Best effort & hard Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you want to be in fashion you have to absolutely love what you do, because it's more than a job - it's your life. This is a very intense and hard business. But don't worry, trust life. Anything you want, you are capable of getting, it just takes a combination of effort and grace.”

Ifs Want Hard Jobs Effort Worry Grace Fashion Capable Intense Combination

Author:Lori Goldstein

“The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.”

Men World Way Littles Book Real Hard Language Effort Direct Painful Stores Invention Contact Real World Alphabet Hard Way Great Inventions

Author:B. F. Skinner

“Tomorrow's leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don't sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan.”

Hard Dream Action Turns Energy Waiting Goal Effort Responsibility Leader Plans Willing Hard Work Tomorrow Taking Responsibility Executing Perspiration

Author:Denis Waitley

“Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.”

Hard Effort Achieve Flow Wasting Time Not Wasting Time

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.”

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Author:Bob Goodlatte

“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

“It's too hard to make a movie if you don't care about what happens to it, or even what the product is. I can't even imagine that. It's not worth the time and effort if you don't care about the product.”

Ifs I Can Hard Happens Care Effort Imagine Products Don't Care Imagine That

Author:Bradley Cooper

“Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.”

Way Persons Hard Goal Effort Talent Hard Work Perseverance Champion Rising Odds Mediocre Work Effort Against The Odds

Book:Born to Win: Find Your Success Code

Source: Born to Win: Find Your Success Code

“It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging. If you have to work this hard at sexual freedom, maybe it isn't worth the effort.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses”

Littles Hard Dream Easy Bits Effort Too Much Plans Discipline Little Bit Mass Scary

Author:Chris Murray

“I think that it is a fallacy to suppose that helpful cooperation in the future will be assured by the attempted compulsion of an inflexible rule. Rather will such cooperation depend upon the fostering of firm friendships springing from an appreciation of community ideals, interests, and purposes, and such friendships are more likely to be promoted by freedom of conference than by the effort to create hard and fast engagements.”

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Author:Charles Evans Hughes

“We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time, and that only through the united efforts of our younger generation and all our people, working with their own hands, can China be made strong and prosperous within a period of several decades. The establishment of our socialist system has opened the road leading to the ideal society of the future, but to translate this ideal into reality needs hard work.”

“If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires.”

Ifs Should Self Hard Desire Goal Realizing Prayer Effort Achieve Hard Work Praying Achievement Negative Excellence Supreme Tendencies Sincerely Removal Supreme Being

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.”

Ifs Hard Would Be Evil Effort Poverty Greater Direct Misery Vices Instance Assault

Author:William Graham Sumner

“Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.”

Mind Long Hard Able Values Term Deals Effort Willing Hard Work Discipline Succeed Investment Investing Long Term Sufficient Horizon Investors Strict Fractions Mind Set

Author:Seth Klarman

“You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it.”

May Real Hard Effort Enlightenment Core Seekers Hardcore Hard Core

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.”

Source: The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures

“To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.”

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Author:David Copperfield

“Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.”

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Author:John Gruber

“I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.”

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Author:Branch Warren

“When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.”

Ifs Knows Trying Wells May Sometimes Matter Hard Care Enjoy Effort News Contrary Senses Curious Flames Life And Death Expenses Candle Awkward Flash

Author:Diane Ackerman

“I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.”

Knows Feels Writing I Can Ends Hard Stories Can Do Effort Novel Months Constant Bored Short Story Screenplays Writing Poems

Author:Sherman Alexie

“Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality.”

“I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.”

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Author:Clive Owen

“Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art.”

Way Feels Art Hard Play Fall Natural Effort Shining Piano Bubbles Rise And Fall

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade. There is no shame in failure - all makers fail. But it's hard to respect someone who never tries, even once, to do something good that's always on their mind. If you're worried about how good your idea is, you're worrying about the wrong thing.”

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Author:Scott Berkun

“Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.”

Thinking Hard Effort Practice Hard Work Get Better

Author:Jamais Cascio

“I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.”

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Author:Mia Hamm

“If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them. I am just a link in the process. If I don't take anything personally, then I can do great work without flagging. The Dalai Lama once said, 'Try with all your might - to work very, very hard - to make the world a better place, and if all your efforts are to no avail . . . no hard feelings!'”

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Author:Bo Lozoff

“Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.”

Ifs Feels Looks Littles Long Hard Done Jobs Easy Water Can Do Work Loss Results Effort Excellence Yield Spells Ducks Strain You Can Do It Vitality Fatigue Work Done Output

Author:B. C. Forbes

“As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so.”

Children Ideas Ends Hard Reason Shows Individual Freedom Ability Effort Responsibility My Family Raises Chaos Urges Rejects Show Me Your Freedom Vaccinations

Author:Lindsey Graham

“Work hard, put maximum effort, and have a good attitude. Most importantly never give up.”

Giving Hard Effort Attitude Hard Work Giving Up Never Giving Up Maximum Good Attitude Maximum Effort

Author:Ana Monnar

“You cannot have that attitude of where I am going to tuck my tail between my legs and go home. You have to keep going back for more. That's why cycling is a very competitive sport. You have to have determination and drive to train hard and put forth a good effort.”

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Author:Robin Farina

“People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks”

People Ifs Self Hard Easy Difficult Effort Conditions Masters Hard Work Lows Tasks Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Tasks Easy Tasks Minimal Effort

Author:Albert Bandura

“The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.”

Two Hard Might Three Games Term Effort Player Fields Performances Get Better Extras Three Times Extra Effort

Author:Warren Gatland

“Training can be monotonous, and it is hard work, but you never lose sight of why you are doing it. Every single effort of every single session counts in the months and years leading up to a big event.”

Years Hard Bigs Loses Effort Events Hard Work Months Training Sight Session Monotonous Big Events

Author:Chris Hoy

“Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe.”

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Author:Sam Harris

“If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.”

Ifs Thinking Want Hard Life Is Belief Effort Struggle Our Lives Hard Work Effort And Hard Work

Book:Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

“Only that which is got by hard effort will yield lasting benefit.”

Hard Effort Benefits Lasting Yield

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“I suggest that people make an effort to reach out to five people a month. Not just by Facebook or email or Twitter. I'm talking hard-copy note.”

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Author:Dana Perino

“Make excuses to work out. Go for walks and enjoy scenery. You'd be surprised how many calories you can burn during the day if you just make an effort and become more aware. Also remember to start slow, don't go into it too hard if you are just starting.”

Ifs Hard Remember Enjoy Walks Effort Starting Work Out Excuse Scenery Calories

Author:Miesha Tate

“I was at a point in my life where I didn't have any hope, but it wasn't the end for me. I buckled down, put in the effort and hard work and was able to get myself out of that hole. You always have to have hope.”

Ends Hard Able Effort Hard Work Holes Having Hope Effort And Hard Work

Author:Jason Peter

“I went at each race like there was a gold medal at stake. It wasn't like I ran one hard, then slacked off the next. Every time was my best effort. I didn't know how to go at it any other way.”

Knows Way Hard Next Effort Race Know How Gold Ran Stakes Medal Gold Medals Best Effort

Book:Staying the Course: A Runner's Toughest Race

Source: Staying the Course: A Runner's Toughest Race

“Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a writer, understand, but a class) can ever learn. 'Be gentle with one another's efforts,' he often admonished us. 'Be kind and considerate with your criticism. Always remember that it's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.'”

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Author:Ken Kesey

“The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family...may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.'”

World Way Giving May Hard Used Values Force Effort Sacrifice Hard Work Planning Setting Traditional Settings Our Family Subtle Assault Family Values Best Effort Traditional Family

Author:David O. McKay

“A great defensive effort. The one thing we have to do is make it hard for people to beat us. We're not worried about winning and losing, we just have to make the game hard”

People Hard Games Winning Effort One Thing Losing Beats Worried Winning And Losing

Author:John Calipari

“And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.”

Source: Brave New World

“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

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