“My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.” LittlesPhilosophyWholeEffortEffectsHugeHarderMmaSmarter Author:Anthony Pettis
“Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.” WorldHumansPhilosophyRomanceEffortWonderProductsHuman ThoughtCharacterization Book:Nature and Life Source: Nature and Life
“I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,--the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.” PhilosophyStoriesNextFoundHouseEffortFireHeardDrawingInstanceHillsUselessFoxesGood StoryResignation Author:Robert Southey
“It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.” DoeHas BeensPhilosophySocialWaitingEffortProgressGeniusLuckyDiscoveryIdealsOrganizationBrilliantChiefsStrokesAdventOrganisedCumulative Author:William Wickenden
“I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.” MayDifferentEndsPhilosophyFactsSufferingNaturalEffortHypothesisSpeculationCollisionHypotheticalNatural Philosophy Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“Nixon was the one force in Montgomery for a number of years that made any effort in the direction of challenging the power structure. Ed Nixon's source of direction for that comes out of his relationship with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and the Randolph philosophy of mass action. So, Ed Nixon really was the force that conceived of the boycott and drew up the original papers for the boycott.” YearsMadePhilosophyCareActionForceChallengesSleepNumbersEffortSourcePaperMassOriginalsStructureBrotherhoodPapersBoycottMontgomery Author:Ella Baker