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“What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.”

Ifs Thinking Years Might Given White Deals Effort Principles Wise Possibility Hair Fifty Given Up Being Wise Coalitions White Hair

Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon

“In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?”

Ifs Thinking Life Believe Art Real Action Effort Focus Perception Management Real Life Impression Why Not Gaps Virtuous Trustworthy Persuading

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“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

“I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.”

Thinking Children Play Individual Sports Effort Responsibility Team Hockey Playing Sports

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I'm honest. If people aren't putting in the effort, I will definitely let them know because I think that that can only help them.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Helping Effort Honest

Author:Carli Lloyd

“To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.”

Thinking World Passion Understanding Effort Healthy Strongest Lap

Author:Yoko Ono

“Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It's very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.”

Thinking Important Real Whole Stories Understanding Effort Fiction Distinction Remove Truest Midwife

Author:Arundhati Roy

“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

“As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.”

Thinking Enough Numbers Effort Novel Five Figures Waste Thrown Abandoned Waste Of Effort

Author:Mark Haddon

“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source: The decline of the West

“I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it's worked.”

Thinking Effort Hell Successful Battle Picks Being Successful

Author:Ed Sheeran

“I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.”

Thinking Knows Kind Effort Support Know How Sacrifice All Kinds Joints Joint Efforts

Author:Kerry Healey

“I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse.”

Thinking Speak My Own Rooms Effort Saws Tree Fields Flower Thousand Remembered Pot Shade Portions Episodes Entitled Mice Living Room Guise

Author:Loren Eiseley

“Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it's the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they've done, I want that effort there - I want that sincerity. And when you don't feel it, that's the only time I feel like I'm wasting my time at the movies.”

People Thinking World Want Feels Made Ideas Done Motivational Film Effort Pay Watches Down And Agree Screens Cinema My Time Sincerity Only Time Subjective Unifying Wasting My Time

Author:Christopher Nolan

“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

“Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.”

Thinking Men Self Matter Moments Realizing Effort Plans Truth Is Importance Strive Meaningless Traps Liberating Unimportant Self-importance Nothing Matters

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“I don't think people realize the risks they face every time they create a text, or post on a social network. Unless you expressly make the effort, everything you do online, including texting, has a shelf life of forever.”

People Thinking Faces Social Realizing Effort Forever Risk Including Posts Online Shelves Social Network Texting Shelf Life

Author:Mark Cuban

“Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts.”

Thinking Shows Home Certain Hours Effort Audience Objects Witness Intimacy Performing Lenses

Author:Stephen Colbert

“I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.”

Thinking Trying Made Enjoy Sides Effort Conscious Psychological Positively Think Positively

Author:Alistair Brownlee

“On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their jobs. I see them; if I dared, I would smile at them. I think to myself that I am a socialist, that they are the purpose of my life, of my efforts and that they do not know it yet.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Way Jobs Purpose Effort Behinds Morning Fronts Office Communism My Way Socialist

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts, fresh actions. All of which has a mighty important bearing on the economy. There are those of us who think that the psychology of man, each and together, has more impact on markets, business, services and building and all the fabric of an economy than all the more measurable statistical indices.”

Thinking Men Way Important Action Together Walks Results Effort Economy Psychology Plans Building Spring Negative Impact Fabric April

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.”

Thinking Trying Reason Seems Opportunity Wealth Effort Rich Reason Why Proportion Frequency Get Rich

Book:Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

“In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.'”

Thinking Use Effort Break Identity Habit Strategy Familiar Clarity Convenience Sixteen Monitoring Before And After Make Or Break Authentic Happiness Scheduling

Book:The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More

Source: The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More

“When I look out the window at my backyard, I can't think of anything interesting to ask. I mean, it's green, it's growing-but nothing occurs to me that any concentrated effort of thought could possibly enlighten. Whereas in economic, statistical, or mathematical kinds of things, I can think lots of questions.”

Thinking Looks Kind Mean I Can Asks Interesting Effort Economy Growing Economic Window Green Mathematical Enlightening Backyards

Author:Lawrence Summers

“You have to make an effort to be in an unprotected environment because everyone thinks you're a completely incapable idiot who couldn't possibly brush his teeth without an assistant. You have to make an effort in order to be able to actually experience the country that you're in.”

Thinking Country Able Order Effort Environment Teeth Idiot Incapable Brushes Assistants

Author:Christian Bale

“I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry Kissinger admitted the other day, never got over President Nixon's impeachment, and didn't think, even though there was a pattern of illegal conduct there, sanctioned by the White House and proved by the tapes and other documentary evidence and testimony, they didn't believe that the impeachment was justified, and they didn't think he should have resigned.”

“People often think that there's a general who makes all the difference, but I would reject that. It's a team effort. It's the power of the wedge.”

People Thinking Differences Effort Team Rejects Wedges Team Effort

Author:Jim Harbaugh

“I love physical stuff. I love jumping in and getting my nose bloody. I don't really mind it. I think that, if you don't come out with a few cuts and scrapes, you haven't really been putting the effort it.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Stuff Effort Cutting Havens Noses Bloody Jumping Jumping In

Author:Tom Weston-Jones

“We don't always know the details of our future. We do not know what lies ahead. We live in a time of uncertainty. We are surrounded by challenges on all sides. Occasionally discouragement may sneak in to our day; frustration may invite itself into our thinking; doubt might enter about the value of our work. In these dark moments Satan whispers in our ears that we will never be able to succeed, that the price isn't work the effort, and that our small part will never make a difference. He, the father of all lies, will try to prevent us from seeing the end from the beginning.”

“I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has been possible for me to work in close co-operation with several of your leaders and this joint effort on the part of the Labour members and radicals is having I think a very beneficial effect. I do not desire to alienate myself from any of my former political associates but rather to endeavour to urge them along the same path which I myself am treading.”

“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.”

“Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.”

“No matter what the issue is, don't try to justify why you don't feel good. And don't try to justify why you should feel differently. Don't try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that's keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now.”

Thinking Feels Should Trying Matter Reason Feelings Effort Healing Issues Right Now No Matter What Blame Feel Good Uplifting Justify Feel Better Encouraging Words Of Encouragement

Author:Esther Hicks

“Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.”

Thinking Feels Action Turns Natural Space Effort Comedy Cutting Drama Shots Action Movie Goofy

Author:Michael Jai White

“I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.”

Thinking Years Wells Persons Important Matter Problem Humanity Effort Knowing Planets Drama No Matter What Well Being Single Person

Author:Salma Hayek

“So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan.”

Thinking Helping Might Community Effort Influence Bipartisan

Author:Claire McCaskill

“We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.”

Thinking Giving Effort Courage Appreciation Observation Reception Damp

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“We all use texting as a crutch because it's so easy and it doesn't really stop our day for the most part but I think to assure a woman you want to go out, to see that you're serious, you take the extra effort to pick up the phone and make a phone call.”

Thinking Want Use Easy Effort Serious Picks Phones Extras Phone Calls Texting Crutches Extra Effort

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“A lot of people have said my movies are all the same. But I don't actually make an effort to have a style. I'm usually just thinking of what can we do to make it funnier or more interesting or just kind of refine it and it ends up like that.”

People Thinking Kind Said Ends Interesting Effort Style

Author:Wes Anderson

“I think of relationships as having a really safe place with someone where you are, and making an effort to show up everyday - to see them and feel seen, especially as an actor when you're already pretending to be other people all the time. It's an incredible gift to feel seen by one person; a culture of two.”

People Thinking Feels Persons Two Shows Culture Actors Effort Safe Everyday Incredibles Where You Are Pretending Safe Places

Author:Maggie Grace

“Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Writing Humans Kind Art Self Night Song Effort Enemy Tomorrow Satisfaction True You Self-satisfaction Domesticity

Author:Paul McCartney

“I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to save the female half of the world from violence directed at us specifically because we are female.”

Thinking World Way Two Moving Effort Half Violence Survival Female Moving Forward Plus Two Ways

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing. I wanted to be the guy who got to say whether the dress is red or blue.”

Thinking Wanted Guy Effort Red Dresses Blue Filmmaking Scope

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace.”

Thinking Sometimes Life Is Pleasure Effort Strive Painful Enjoyable Stressful Sometimes In Life Agonizing Great Effort

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Songs will always become a story in some way. I think it's my strongpoint as a writer musically. I don't shy away from it. It's not really an effort. It's how I write songs.”

Thinking Way Writing Stories Song Effort Shy

Author:Mike Stud

“Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability”

Thinking Self Problem Difficult Ability Effort Shapes Skills Solutions Seeking Attributes Insufficient Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Problems Perceived Self

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“I wouldn't say 'most' people are prone to negativity. I think it's probably that most people allow negativity to color their thinking, depending on circumstances, but I also believe most people make the necessary efforts to return to positive thinking as quickly as possible.”

People Thinking Believe Effort Positive Thinking Color Return Circumstances Negativity

Author:Zig Ziglar

“As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.”

Ifs Thinking Grows Numbers Effort Productivity Employee Squares

Author:Sam Altman

“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

“I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project or the collaborative effort, and Americans are more media-loyal, because they need to be fed that media to know what's going on, because we're so inundated with promotion and marketing and everything that's going on - advertising.”

Thinking Knows Needs Artist Effort Media Type Projects Marketing Advertising Consumers Genre Feds Loyal Promotion Genres Of Music Collaborative Effort

Author:Serj Tankian

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