Effort Quotes - Page 22

• Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Commitment, Strategy, Should

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• I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize.

  Andy Kennedy

  Opportunity, Second Chance, Glasses

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• Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Keys, Choices, Decision

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• What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Thinking, Practice, Space

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• At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes.

  M. H. Abrams

  Teaching, Purpose, Way

  "An Interview with M. H. Abrams by Sharon Hamilton". People's Education, March 10, 2007.

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• No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

  Andrew Natsios

  Compassion, Brotherhood, Usaid

  "Foley remembered for 'compassion'" by Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2002.

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• NASA appreciates the efforts of Congress to resolve restrictions placed on our partnership with Russia. Congress' action helps to ensure the continuous presence of U.S. astronauts on the International Space Station.

  Michael D. Griffin

  Russia, Space, Appreciate

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• I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world.

  Mahesh Bhatt

  Believe, Insults You, Trying

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• China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.

  Wen Jiabao

  Russia, Organization, Bird

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• The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.

  Amr Moussa

  Iraq, Progress, Occupation

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• Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.

  Celso Amorim

  Keys, Hands, Years

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• It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.

  David Robertson

  Eggs, San Francisco, Needs

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• The credit card business is a success story and that's where Citigroup has put most of its efforts so far. Now Citigroup wants to extend the cooperation and success to more areas.

  Zhang Xi

  Cards, Stories, Credit

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• NSEERS was so poorly conceived and badly managed that it created chaos and fear. Trust between the immigrant community and law enforcement was severely strained and, in the end, there was no evidence that any terrorists were apprehended as a result of the effort.

  James Zogby

  Law, Community, Enforcement

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• Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a local level. We'd expect employers in other states to use this site as they consider where in Massachusetts to locate or expand their presence.

  Christopher Anderson

  Technology, Community, Competition

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• Profits are related to customer retention. Customer retention is related to employee retention. Employee retention may or may not be related to benefits, but benefits could be part of the package that causes people to stay and -- by the way -- engage in discretionary effort. .. If you go into any organization that's customer-facing, you can tell in five minutes when the employees are feeling abused. They retaliate on the customers.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Organization, People, Feelings

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• Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.

  Eric Maisel

  World, May, Danger

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.105, Penguin

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• And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.

  Brandon Routh

  Couple, Australia, Able

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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• In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

  Piet Mondrian

  Past, Age, Done

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• There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

  John Moulder Wilson

  Best Effort, Punishment, Two

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• All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

  Anna Brackett

  Spring, Real, Exercise

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• Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Art, Children, Sacrifice

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• In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems. Observing that lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noticed that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decided to concentrate all their energies on a specific objective, they begun to surmount the most difficult odds.

  Ari Kiev

  Adversity, Practice, Odds

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• We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.

  Robert Genn

  Skills, Focus, Upgrading

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• I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Character, Acceptance

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