- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Effort Quotes
On the work that adds up, together and alone.
This set ranges widely - from effort measured on a national, historic scale down to the smaller daily effort it takes to treat people with patience. For a closer look at working smarter, see Efficient.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
- Flowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody makes a decision about where they want their career to go. If I really want something, I put a lot of effort into it. If I don't want something, I won't.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
- Farms
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person has already made the effort once they open a paper or turn on the news. They want to know what's going on in the world around them. That, in itself, shows they care. But the problem is, most people say, 'That's terrible,' and then move on. Because they find it too difficult to look at.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Formulation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020