Best Effort Quotes - Page 4

• If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.

  Simon Blackburn

  Karma, Destiny, Needs

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Eye, Grace, Promise

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• If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Children, Sky, Numbers

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• I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me. They've protected me - they've made the best efforts to protect me my whole life.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Government, Data, Made

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• As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Mother, Mean

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• And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

  Nora Roberts

  Book, Effort, Slacking

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• Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Winning, Justice, The End Of The Day

  "All Police Interrogations Should Be Tape-Recorded" by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. October 08, 2012.

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• I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

  Emma Thompson

  Motherhood, Thinking, Long

  "Between Friends". Interview with Jenny Allen, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 7, 2010.

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• Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord.

  Jen Lancaster

  Perfect, Tiny, Flaws

  Jen Lancaster (2006). “Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office”, p.17, Penguin

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• In all the characters I play, not matter how, it's like as if there is something within me that's released. I also show my best ability and put in my best efforts.

  Joo Won

  Character, Play, Matter

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.

  Sam Harris

  Reality, Objectivity, Long

  "The Moral Landscape". Book by Sam Harris, 2010.

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• When we strive to keep the commandments of God, repenting of our sins and promising our best efforts to follow the Savior, we begin to grow in confidence that through the Atonement everything will be all right.

  Wilford W. Andersen

  Sin, Atonement, Strive

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• I went at each race like there was a gold medal at stake. It wasn't like I ran one hard, then slacked off the next. Every time was my best effort. I didn't know how to go at it any other way.

  Dick Beardsley

  Race, Gold, Way

  Dick Beardsley, Maureen Anderson (2004). “Staying the Course: A Runner's Toughest Race”, p.60, U of Minnesota Press

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• While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Responsibility, Destiny, Blessing

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• In the field of education, educators know that they leave a lasting impact on their students for better or for worse. Trust is established or diminished in the classroom and very good educators understand that they are fallible. Despite their best efforts, they will not always do the best for each student.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Impact, Fields, Students

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

  Zig Ziglar

  Doctors, Patient, Parts Of Life

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• I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but the camera always reveals something more vulnerable, despite our best efforts.

  Katy Grannan

  Believe, Thinking, Cameras

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• The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family...may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.'

  David O. McKay

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Giving

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• Any game could be my last, and any at bat could be my last. I'd hate to think it ended without me giving my best effort.

  Darin Erstad

  Hate, Thinking, Games

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• You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it's read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.

  Oliver Stone

  Taken, Judging, Matter

  Source: www.chud.com

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• When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.

  George Tenet

  Men, Agency, Years

  Speech of CIA Director George Tenet, www.americanprogress.org. February 5, 2004.

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• In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Hygiene, Trying

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us.

  Kurt Busch

  Giving Up, Trying, Matter

  "2nd, 3rd Finishers Pocono II Press Conference". Press Conference, www.motorsport.com. August 8, 2011.

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• I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

  Len Wein

  Lenses, Judgment, I Realized

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN PART ONE". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

  Dan Simmons

  Trust, Art, Believe

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