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Effort Quotes
"One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness."
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"I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying."
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"I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security."
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"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."
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"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."
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"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."
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"I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called."
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"When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology."
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"I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them."
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"I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat."
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"This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die."
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"We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team."
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"Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work."
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"In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website."
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"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires."
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"Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?"
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"The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort."
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"Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth."
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"I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient."
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"It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings."
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"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."
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"Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently."
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"Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way."
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"It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race."
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"I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show."
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"Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort."
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"Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated."
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"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder."
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"The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes."
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"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."
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"Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having."
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"I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules."
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"We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily."
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