“Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'” IfsStillsEffortMissingBeatsStriveSatisfiedPacksBest Effort Author:Gerald R. Ford
“I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way you point the nose of your plane. The pure joy of flight as an art has given way to the pure efficiency of flight as a science.... Science is insulating man from life -- separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetizes his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.” KnowsMenWorldWayMindArtI CanTodayUsedJoyGivenEffortWorstMissingPureOceanSensesFlightPlanesEaseNosesContinentsEfficiencyWorld TodaySeparatingPure JoyEquator Author:Charles Lindbergh
“We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.” TryingActionWaitingEffortMorningMissingYouthMaterialsAgingClockReachingAfternoonEmphasisTerrificUnnaturalFloweringBelittleBreathless Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“When things go wrong, your best recovery effort is required. But don't just provide the missing piece (that's the recovery), also provide uniquely personal assistance (that's the memorable effort).” CultureEffortPiecesMissingRecoveryMemorableAssistanceService CultureWhen Things Go WrongMissing Piece Author:Ron Kaufman
“Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.” PleasureResultsEffortBeautySeeingFashionMissingReturnLaborSurfaceForfeit Author:Roderick E. Stevens
“Sometimes HR transformations have been definitions. Just because someone does an e-HR system or puts in a new talent system or changes the HR function does not mean an HR transformation has occurred. We identified four phases of HR transformation. Missing any of the four phases would be an incomplete effort.” MeanDoeHas BeensSometimesWould BeEffortFourTalentMissingFunctionTransformationDefinitionsPhasesIncompleteNew Talent Author:Dave Ulrich
“In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.” WayWholeStoriesBigsMightHappensThreeRoomsEffortNovelCuttingMiddleMissingReaderCoupleEssentialsElementsConsequenceSurpriseFatsSuspenseChaptersUnfairCrapMomentumClumsyGeneralizationMiddle Way Author:Robert Reed
“One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.” DoeHeavenEffortMissingHairConstant Author:Dallas Willard
“Because I had visited Silicon Valley, I recognized the microprocessor was going to lead the second industrial revolution. We Chinese could not miss that opportunity again - we missed the first industrial revolution already. We put our effort into trying to bring this new technology from the United States to Taiwan. That was the begining of Acer.” TryingFirstsStatesOpportunityUnitedEffortTechnologyUnited StatesMissingRevolutionChineseValleysNew TechnologySiliconSilicon ValleyIndustrial RevolutionTaiwanMicroprocessor Author:Stan Shih
“I think the arrogance of people who think or actually are in the establishment, think they're part of it or actually are, they cannot help themselves, apparently. They take this guy, Trump, who is not a politician, in the career sense, and they plug him into their system and analyze what he does and what he says the way they analyze professional politicians and what they say and do, and they miss it. Which is not news. The news is they're not even getting close to understanding it yet. Despite the never-ending efforts on the part of people like me to help them figure it out.” PeopleThinkingHelpingGuyUnderstandingEffortMissingPoliticianArrogance Author:Rush Limbaugh