- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many players in the big blind get in trouble by calling pre-flop raises; they try to do too much. They don't want to get bullied, so they attempt a tricky check-raise bluff or overplay their hands in an ill-advised effort to push back.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives always knew that the Left made a concerted effort to dominate in the entertainment field because it's such a fabulous way to plant the seed of an agenda. Sugar helps the medicine go down, as does seeing it on the silver screen or hearing it in a catchy pop hook.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.
- Gaming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we can really use magic in a way never attempted before to inspire these children, help rally their self-confidence and even help them develop social skills. This is a national effort, not just here in Las Vegas. I know we can give them a true passion.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother and my mother raised me, but my dad made a conscious effort to be in my life - every weekend he would take me out.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020