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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

“The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.”

Long I Can Lasts Guy Effort Couple Distance Long Distance

Author:Holly Madison

“Success is a process for all of us, and as long as you are making consistent progress towards your goals - sincerely giving your best effort more often than not - then you are already successful and deserve to feel proud of yourself.”

Giving Feels Long Success Process Goal Effort Successful Progress Proud Deserve Consistent Sincerely Best Effort Proud Of You Proud Of Yourself

Author:Hal Elrod

“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

“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

“. . . 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

“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 age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!”

Men Feels Long Two Whole Seems Would Be Age Remember Reading Effort Emotion Too Much Drinking Admire Excess Thorough Bruises Stimulation

Book:Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].

Source: Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].

“Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.”

Knows Long Effort Spring Thee Sentiments Great Love

Book:The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914

Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914

“After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.”

Ifs Needs Long Important Effort Pay Attention Brain Knowledge Novel Youth Periods Areas Critical Lasting Surprising Initials Long Lasting

Author:Norman Doidge

“Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms.”

Should Long Suffering Effort Grace Dying Patient Protected Honored Symptoms

Author:Marcia Angell

“From the day I took office, I've been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious; such an effort would be too contentious. I've been told that our political system is too gridlocked, and that we should just put things on hold for a while. For those who make these claims, I have one simple question: How long should we wait? How long should America put its future on hold?”

Should Long Would Be America Political Waiting Challenges Simple Effort Office Claims Ambitious Political Systems Contentious

Author:Barack Obama

“As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.”

“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

“Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.”

Years Long Stills War States Government Difficult Effort Conflict Contrary Outcomes Civil War Anarchy Spinning Valiant Spinning Out Of Control

Author:Anthony Zinni

“To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage.”

World Needs Long Country Term Party Effort Practice Successful Draws Corruption Valuable Around The World Long Term Heritage Foreign Countries

Author:Xi Jinping

“No relationship is perfect nor will anyone ever be the best boyfriend or girlfriend. Long as you put in the effort and try to make your lover happy. That's all we can ask for.”

Trying Long Asks Perfect Effort Lovers Girlfriend Being The Best

Author:Kevin McCarty

“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

“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

“I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.”

Thinking Long I Can Bigs Film Effort Break Chinese

Author:Ang Lee

“Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.”

“The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts.”

Long House Waiting President White Effort Doubt Style Appreciate Features No Doubt White House Architect Descent Dublin Incorporating Long Wait

Author:John F. Kennedy

“I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. The whole life of us writers, the whole product I guess I mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. It's all the same poem. It doesn't belong to any one writer - it's God's poem perhaps. Or God's people's poem.”

People Ifs Mean Long Book Whole Feelings Poetry Community Effort Written Products Whole Life

Author:Anne Sexton

“Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.”

Long Running Law Difficult Effort Family Members Complaining Circles Long Runs Conform Preference Family Life Unwritten Personal Preferences

Book:A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing

Source: A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing

“If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.”

“We can all agree that government cant solve the obesity crisis alone. Its an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.”

Ifs Want Long Government Term Effort Issues Crisis Agree Solve Long Term Cant Ongoing Obesity Public Sector Long Term Success Collaborative Effort

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“It's not enough to have a few women's studies courses. Why is it more important to study Paul Revere's midnight ride than it is Susan B. Anthony's 50-year effort to transform the face of America for women? When you're in school, most of the events you study are about men. Men's activities lauded and repeated over and over. What about us? What about commemorating the decades-long struggle for suffrage? Why don't we hear those stories over and over and over again. It's almost inconceivable for men to understand what it would be like to live without that constant valorization.”

Men Years Long Important Enough Stories Would Be School America Faces Courses Effort Struggle Study Events Activity Constant Decades Midnight Suffrage Susan B Anthony

Author:Judy Chicago

“If we enjoy the benefits of peace, it is only because we have an excellent armed force and a fine socialist economy. Let us exert all efforts so that our further development may be strong and mighty, so that our numerous enemies may think well and long before they decide to attack our fatherland, and so that if they attack, they will quickly regret it.”

Ifs Thinking Wells May Long Strong Force Enjoy Effort Enemy Economy Regret Fine Development Benefits Excellent Socialist Armed Forces Fatherland Socialist Economy

Author:Kliment Voroshilov

“The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists.”

Men Long Young Sound Numbers Effort Teaching Depends Healthy Research Men And Women Scientist Core Adequate Disinterested Carrying On New Knowledge

Author:Alan Tower Waterman

“At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back.”

People Long Would Be Suffering Force Process Difficult Effort Air Dog Military Treatment Ptsd Air Force Lengthy

Author:Robert Crais

“I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort.”

Believe Long Effort Too Much Worst Willing Equal Apathy Cynicism

Book:I Rant, Therefore I Am

Source: I Rant, Therefore I Am

“I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'.”

Long Causes Space Answers Results Effort What Is The Meaning

Book:The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

Source: The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

“It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come.”

Long Play Whole Facts Hands Common Effort Enemy One Day Terror Communist Senators Exaggeration Blunders Discredit Irreparable Common Enemy Anti Communist

Book:Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers' Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961

Source: Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers' Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961

“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.”

Way Long Hard Sports Goal Effort Business Hard Work Down And Motivational Sports Teammate Volleyball Cheerleading

Author:Mia Hamm

“We are all just here for a time - whether in this building or even on this earth. But the values we hold dear will live on long after we have left this stage. Our responsibility, while we are here, is to breathe life into them; to imbue them with the strength of our convictions and the weight of our efforts.”

Long Earth Values Left Effort Responsibility Stage Building Weight Dear Conviction Breathe

Author:Loretta Lynch

“The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.”

“I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.”

Years Long Lying Opportunity Water Effort Watches Strength Gains Appreciate Relaxation Hurrying

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“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

“I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run.”

Believe Long Made Running I Believe Decision Effort Majors Gains Investing Valuable Long Runs Business Life

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.”

Long Running Effort Illusion Lonely Long Runs Maintaining

Author:Sheldon B. Kopp

“I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.”

Long Enough Government Effort Existence Citizens Honor Integrity Unions Aids Favors Appeals Loyal Facilitate Redress

Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.”

World Long Doe Action Effort Taken Records Paper Lows Fortune Stopping My Thoughts Ink Ink And Paper

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement, anything extracted from it by human effort must be replaced. Payment of this price cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed. The present environmental crisis is a warning that we have delayed nearly too long.”

Humans Long Whole Lost Effort Subjects Crisis Environmental Connected Improvement Warning Sustainability Replaced Avoided Payment Ecosystems Delayed Environmental Crisis

Author:Barry Commoner

“Once you identify and learn to speak your spouse’s primary love language, I believe that you will have discovered the key to a long-lasting, loving marriage. Love need not evaporate after the wedding, but in order to keep it alive most of us will have to put forth effort to learn a secondary love language. We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.”

Source: The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages for Men Set

“Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.”

Long Reality Values Belief Results Effort Judgment Evidence Argument Scientist Contrary Despite Chains Reasoning Links Objectivity Validity Best Effort Abstaining

Author:Sam Harris

“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

“Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.”

Way Long Has Beens Effort Attitude Opinion Struggle Violence Mets Massive Long Way Repression Regression Long Way To Go

Book:Who Rules the World?

Source: Who Rules the World?

“Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like you are making an effort, it will be appreciated.”

Ifs Way Looks Long Forget Effort Like You Manners Never Forget Personal Life Appreciated Long Way Forget You

Author:Matt Bomer

“I did a lot of reading. I read about democratic socialism. And I read about the efforts of people for such a long time trying to create a society in which all people can live with dignity. And that's kind of what I believe.”

People Trying Believe Kind Long Reading I Believe Effort Long Time Dignity Democratic Socialism Democratic Socialism

Author:Bernie Sanders

“The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it but what we become by it. ... Mistakes are not failures. They are proof that we are making an effort. When we understand that, we can more easily move out of our comfort zone, try something new, and improve. ... Improvement demands a commitment to grow long after the mood in which it was made has passed.”

Trying Long Made Moving Grows Effort Mistake Comfort Demand Highest Commitment Rewards Proof Improvement Mood Zone Something New Comfort Zone Toil

Author:John C. Maxwell