Effort Quotes - Page 20

• There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Successful, Love Is, Force

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.110, New York Review of Books

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• The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

  Henri Matisse

  Courage, Artist, Essentials

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• When you've done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it. That can be powerful and effective.

  Ralph Marston

  Motivation, Powerful, Ordinary

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• Divine opportunities are all around you every day. Make a conscious effort today to show kindness to someone.

  O. S. Hawkins

  Life, Kindness, Opportunity

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• We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?

  Norman Mailer

  Art, Civilization, Waste

  "Cannibals and Christians". Book by Norman Mailer, 1966.

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• Tomorrow's leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don't sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan.

  Denis Waitley

  Dream, Responsibility, Hard Work

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• The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.

  Madame de Stael

  Moving, Fire, Ideas

  "Germany" by Madame de Stael, Part III, Chapter II, 1813.

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• It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Caring, Individual Effort, Care

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Unions, Oneself

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Running, Lakes, Agriculture

  "Carl Hiaasen and the state of weirdness" By Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. August 4, 2004.

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• The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Commitment, Two, Majority

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• Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

  Leonard Orr

  Boredom, Negative, Used

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• Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.

  Mooji

  Mean, Silence, Technique

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• Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

  Bobby Knight

  Success, Self Esteem, Winning

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• everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.

  Carroll Quigley

  Organization, Important, Society

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.

  William Morris Hunt

  Children, Writing, Later In Life

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• Americans are known for their strength, fortitude, and generosity in times of need. We encourage people in the U.S. and everywhere to give with their hearts, reach out to these victims, and donate what they can to the relief efforts.

  Michael Dell

  Heart, People, Generosity

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• With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure parents have some peace of mind when they send their children off to school in the morning, .. Since children are particularly vulnerable to foodborne illness, schools must be vigilant in their efforts to ensure that cafeterias are not putting children at risk. These changes in law will support parents who want to work with school principals and food-service directors to ensure a safe environment.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Morning, Children, Believe

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• Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Children, Past

  Wassily Kandinsky (1983). “Kandinsky, Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932: January 5-Febr Uary 11, 1984”

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• The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Wall, Pain

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• I love having messy hair. I put in a lot of effort to have it look as messy as possible.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Hair, Looks, Messy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right.

  Tim Kaine

  Country, Virginia, Giving

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• Success is a process for all of us, and as long as you are making consistent progress towards your goals - sincerely giving your best effort more often than not - then you are already successful and deserve to feel proud of yourself.

  Hal Elrod

  Success, Best Effort, Long

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Oct 20, 2009

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• When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Iran, Nuclear, Exhausted

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• Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

  Gerhard Richter

  Painting, Blind, Desperate

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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