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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
- High Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
- Nov 07, 2020
Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.
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- Nov 07, 2020