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Effort Quotes

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

Daniel Kahneman

Decision Effort Right Importance

We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.

Matthew Desmond

Community Health Improvement Effort

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life Respect Effort Me Unity Energy

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

Billy Strayhorn

Friend Effort Writing Train Born

Every day of my life, I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

Life Good Day Effort My Life Like

I think that the effort to continue to look for some law to somehow make violence go away is missing the point.

Effort Law Think Violence Look Go

We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.

Quality Effort Lawyers News Human

Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.

Soul Spiritual Effort Mind Conflict

Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.

Angela Duckworth

Good Effort Nobody Matter Without

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

Pierre de Coubertin

Effort Physical Cultivation Habitual

I've never understood the appeal of feeling really scared. I know that people do find it really thrilling. For me, artistically, it needs to be worth the effort of me feeling uncomfortable watching it.

Effort People Me Uncomfortable Worth

That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.

Fight Effort Support People Small

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Effort Thought Nothing Rule Greater

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

Progress Words Effort Writing Reach

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

Effort People Looking Story Help

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

Respect Progress Government Effort

Decades of futile effort have not dampened my bold aspirations to save the nation. Born in a late age, I have not been able to witness the golden rule of Yao and Shun and other sage emperors of ancient China. Instead, my heart grieves at the suffering of the Chinese people under the cruel exploitation of the Tartar Slaves.

Age Heart Effort People Suffering

While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his successful effort to double fuel economy standards for cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

Effort Energy President Economy May

I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

Work I Am Effort Stand Attention

The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.

Best Effort Team Survive Game China

You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.

James G. Stavridis

Success Balance Practice Effort You

You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

Work Together Effort Get Together

'End strength' - the total number of government employees you can have at the end of the year. That's a separate exercise and requires independent energy, independent effort with the Congress to get the ceiling of your government employees raised.

Strength Government Effort Energy

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.

Time Effort Think You Done Clock

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