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• Your best efforts will never be enough when your best efforts are being wasted on the wrong person.

  Unknown

  Topics in Effort, Life

• I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Made, Become

• Work hard, put maximum effort, and have a good attitude. Most importantly never give up.

  Ana Monnar

  Topics in Effort, Work

• I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

  Katherine Harris

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Campaign, Bush

• Without stooping down for the mushroom, you cannot put it in your basket.

  Topics in Effort, Russian Proverbs

• God is better pleased with adverbs than with nouns.

  Topics in Effort, English Proverbs

• He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

  Topics in Effort, English Proverbs

• The third’s the charm.

  Topics in Effort, English Proverbs

• Paddle your own canoe.

  Topics in American Proverbs, Effort

• Team effort goes vain when individual effort is in the wrong direction.

  Ram Mohan

  Topics in Effort

• Dying isn’t like living; it requires no effort at all.

  Ann Aguirre

  Topics in Effort

• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  Hans Haacke

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Liberal, Corporations

• When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts.

  Greta Van Susteren

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Cultures, Lady

• Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It’s a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way – that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction – and still trust that they’re going to come up with good answers.

  James Surowiecki

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Direction, Linux
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  Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Topics in Art, Effort, Life, Wisdom

  Tags in Simplicity, Getting
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  Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

  John Dewey

  Topics in Effort, Goal, Life

  Tags in Reach, Live
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  The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

  John Fischer

  Topics in Children, Effort

  Tags in Equality, Potential

• I’m a dad now and whatever I’m doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it – usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in ridiculous

• The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

  Steven Weinberg

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Universe, Science

• I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them

  Baruch Spinoza

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Ridicule, Philosophy, Science