“The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.” FirstsLinesEffortDefenseInjuryInvolvingPrevention Author:Richard Neal
“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.” WorldShouldFirstsAmericaEffortCapacityThreatFocusedNuclearPrioritiesDramaticIranNuclear 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.” FirstsLastsUsedNightEffortMorningPrideOfficeOutcomes 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.” FirstsChildrenTwoDreamEffortStudyAreasPilotsParallelsPursuedAstronomers 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.” WayFirstsChildrenLanguageGivenAbilityEffortToo MuchPraiseDrawingCrude 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.” IfsWayFirstsPersonsLongSelfEffortImpossibleDevelopmentDemandTasksImportanceStriveIntensitySelf KnowledgeSelf DevelopmentSeriousnessTriflesOld 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.” WayFirstsPurposeRealizingEffortTeachingAchieveStudentsBreakthroughBetter WaysFreeze 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.” FirstsWellsBodyAbleProcessEffortMonthsCoupleWeightTrainLiftsAustralia 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.” WritingFirstsMadeBookHelpingHouseEffortColdConsciousRiversImpactCypresses 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?” KnowsFirstsLongWholeYoungPoliticalHouseWhiteEffortGenerationsCrazyHusbandShotsListsCampaignsChiefsWhite HouseGeekCiaFbiJimmyDegeneratesJunkieDallasCastroHooverJ Edgar HooverJimmy Hoffa Author:Hunter S. Thompson