159 quotes found
“Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position.”
“Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?”
“I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such a waste! I thought, If only she had started out with a good teacher and gotten the proper traini...”
“Just because someone can do something with little or no training, it doesnt mean that others cant do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.”
“The first step is always the hardest”
“The human mind has a tendency to observe unsystematic events and assign a pattern to the results. A habitual risk-taker reorganizes the stream of random events and retrospectively attributes the ou...”
“If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lyin...”
“There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.”
“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...”
“But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.”
“Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.”
“While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.”
“There is no question that the Islamic State will be defeated in Mosul the real question is what comes afterward. Can the post-Islamic State effort resolve the squabbling likely to arise over numero...”
“Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.”
“For there to be communication within a couple, it is enough for there to be only one person who communicates or who really wants to communicate. Even though a couple consists of two people, if one ...”
“But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is be...”
“There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.”
“You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.”
“It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.”
“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.”
