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Image of Andy Grove
The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
- Andy Grove
Collection: Effort
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: Effort
Image of Andre Gide
The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
- Andre Gide
Collection: Effort
Image of John Ashcroft
We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort
- John Ashcroft
Collection: Effort
Image of William Golding
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
- William Golding
Collection: Effort
Image of Andre Gide
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
- Andre Gide
Collection: Effort
Image of Vincent Van Gogh
The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Collection: Effort
Image of Pope Francis
Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free the victims and stop this increasingly aggressive crime which threatens not only individuals but the basic values of society.
- Pope Francis
Collection: Effort
Image of Edward Gibbon
Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
- Edward Gibbon
Collection: Effort
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Effort
Image of Milton Friedman
Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.
- Milton Friedman
Collection: Effort
Image of Andre Gide
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
- Andre Gide
Collection: Effort
Image of Pope Francis
God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.
- Pope Francis
Collection: Effort
Image of Sigmund Freud
In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?
- Sigmund Freud
Collection: Effort
Image of John Fowles
To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
- John Fowles
Collection: Effort
Image of Jerry Garcia
I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. I'm trying to have a guitar built. What's needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
- Jerry Garcia
Collection: Effort
Image of Bell Hooks
There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.
- Bell Hooks
Collection: Effort
Image of Friedrich August von Hayek
The word "truth" itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience as the sole arbiter of whether in any particular instance the evidence (or the standing of those proclaiming it) warrants a belief; it becomes something to be laid down by authority, something which has to believed in the interest of unity of the organized effort and which may have to be altered as the exigencies of this organized effort require it.
- Friedrich August von Hayek
Collection: Effort
Image of Seamus Heaney
The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.
- Seamus Heaney
Collection: Effort
Image of Friedrich August von Hayek
If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay claim to a monopoly of creative effort... then we must not be surprised if society, as such, ceases to function as a creative force.
- Friedrich August von Hayek
Collection: Effort
Image of Vaclav Havel
In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.
- Vaclav Havel
Collection: Effort
Image of Napoleon Hill
Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.
- Napoleon Hill
Collection: Effort
Image of Napoleon Hill
Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.
- Napoleon Hill
Collection: Effort
Image of Gordon B. Hinckley
Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier.
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Collection: Effort
Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
Try to exist even under hardest conditions! That is the effort which deserves the applauses most!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Collection: Effort
Image of Paul Auster
Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.
- Paul Auster
Collection: Effort
Image of Khaled Hosseini
There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so.
- Khaled Hosseini
Collection: Effort
Image of Khaled Hosseini
At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.
- Khaled Hosseini
Collection: Effort
Image of Vernon Howard
Genuine effort is success.
- Vernon Howard
Collection: Effort
Image of Steve Harvey
Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort."~Steve Harvey
- Steve Harvey
Collection: Effort
Image of Gordon B. Hinckley
Do not let fear overcome your efforts.
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Collection: Effort
Image of Napoleon Hill
The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
- Napoleon Hill
Collection: Effort
Image of Marcus Aurelius
From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.
- Marcus Aurelius
Collection: Effort
Image of G. I. Gurdjieff
Only super-efforts count.
- G. I. Gurdjieff
Collection: Effort
Image of John F. Kerry
I will not stop in our efforts to hunt down and kill the terrorists.
- John F. Kerry
Collection: Effort
Image of Ella Baker
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in for voter registration, but for political participation.
- Ella Baker
Collection: Effort
Image of Robert Green Ingersoll
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Effort
Image of Bobby Jindal
There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a very frank meeting we had with the president.
- Bobby Jindal
Collection: Effort
Image of Norton Juster
The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.
- Norton Juster
Collection: Effort
Image of Michio Kaku
A soul might very well exist, but we, as physicists, try to measure and quantify everything. So far, no one has been able to create an experiment to do this for the soul. Efforts have been made to weigh the body after death, but each time we find no evidence of a soul. So a soul may very well exist, but it is not a testable theory.
- Michio Kaku
Collection: Effort
Image of William James
To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.
- William James
Collection: Effort
Image of John F. Kennedy
Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities.
- John F. Kennedy
Collection: Effort
Image of Theodore Kaczynski
In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.
- Theodore Kaczynski
Collection: Effort
Image of Theodore Kaczynski
In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.
- Theodore Kaczynski
Collection: Effort
Image of Clive James
All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.
- Clive James
Collection: Effort
Image of Diane Keaton
The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness
- Diane Keaton
Collection: Effort
Image of John F. Kennedy
[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax system...reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking.
- John F. Kennedy
Collection: Effort
Image of Samuel Johnson
Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Effort