Effort Quotes - Page 27

• Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Lasts, Trouble, Century

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

  Bill Vaughan

  Deep Thought, Climbs

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• Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fossils, Coal, Development

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• Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Moving, America, Order

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter V, 1835.

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• Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.

  Emma Goldman

  Moving, Ideas, Doe

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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• For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Hands, Grace

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Notes on Life and Letters”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Greek, Style, Doubt

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.256

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• The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Drinking, Reading, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].”, p.79

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• I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism.

  William E. Gladstone

  Design, Independence, Wish

  "In the Golden Days". Book by F. W. Hirst, 1947.

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• Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Romance, World

  Alfred North Whitehead (2012). “Nature and Life”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Unity, Vision, Purpose

  Alfred North Whitehead (1969). “Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology; Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28”, New York : Macmillan

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• There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which in times of contention for principle was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion.

  John Quincy Adams

  Party, Passion, Sacrifice

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• Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.

  Tom Peters

  Best Effort, Creating, Essentials

  "In Search of Excellence". Book by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr., 1982.

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• When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.

  Merrill Markoe

  Writing, Years, Nervous

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I love working with the best directors in the world and great material. If I get an opportunity to do that, I'm going to do it. On the other hand, if something doesn't really hold a candle, I'm going to put my efforts where I can be the most effective.

  Daryl Hannah

  Opportunity, Hands, Directors

  "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

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• City's effort to end homelessness among veterans is different than how things used to be in L.A.

  John Carlos Frey

  Cities, Different, Veteran

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.

  Henry James

  Character, Reality, Color

  Henry James (1979). “What Maisie Knew: In the Cage - The Pupil”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Morning, Flower, Men

  Charles Baudelaire (2013). “Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Destiny, Evil

  "Le peintre de la vie moderne". Book by Charles Baudelaire. Chapter 11, 1863.

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• Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.

  David Toop

  Feels Just, World, Way

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• An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discover the truth, because of his own efforts.

  Antoni Tapies

  Mean, Doors, Lasts

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 30), 2004.

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• Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.

  Matt Chandler

  Weed, Roots, Grace

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• I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

  Fritz Todt

  Imagine, Natural, Should

  "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling". Book by David E. Nye, p. 227, 2000.

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• When intention is supported by effort, success follows.

  Robert Cheeke

  Intention

  Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.59, Book Publishing Company

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• The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.

  Michael Lind

  Pain, Believe, Sight

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