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effort excellence melancholy
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts. Charles Caleb Colton
effort littles cost
Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not. Charles Dickens
effort use talent
The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. Charles Spurgeon
effort break breakdown
There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up. Alan Bishop
effort goes-on found
All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on. Alan Bennett
effort focus mind
If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns. Al Ries
effort peaceful succeed
If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor. Akio Morita
effort done lord
In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work. Aiden Wilson Tozer
effort exhibitions shows
These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are. Childe Hassam
excellent holding hope interviews monday next
We've advertised and had some excellent applicants. We'll be holding interviews from next Monday and hope to make an appointment by the end of next week. Mike Richardson
excellent job looking oklahoma paid people
We are looking to them. Oklahoma did an excellent job getting people paid promptly.
excellent girls happy overall passing toward
We started off really well. We had an excellent passing night. Toward the end of the game, we got a little lackadaisical. But overall I was really happy with the way the girls played.
excellent lows gentle
Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. William Shakespeare
excellent pitch seem wayne
Wayne Rooney is an excellent footballer. I know he is young but when he is on the pitch he doesn't seem very young. Sven Goran
excellent hard high job kids miller rich solid strength team training weight
We have a solid team and we have high expectations. I can't tell you how hard the kids have worked, especially in the weight room. (Strength and conditioning coach) Rich Miller did an excellent job with their strength training and conditioning.
excellent fact fairly fight god job resources
We've been able to do a fairly god job under the circumstances I think, in fact an excellent job under the circumstances of controlling those fires. That's just what you have to do is just be able to have the resources to get out and fight those fires.
excellent devices acquire
It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody. Baltasar Gracian
excellent hone limited prioritize resources rest serve
Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the rest of your career. You will prioritize profitability from the start.
facing matter periods score stronger three tomorrow tougher
Tomorrow we have even a tougher task. We are probably going to be facing a stronger team. We have to play for three periods no matter what the score is. You would think being 14-0 I would be happy, but right now I'm not.
facing hard meet missing mistakes players plays running talk team tough week
We're going to talk about it as players first of all, before we meet with the coaches. That's not the way we play defense. We're hard on ourselves, and it wasn't as much them making plays as it was us making mistakes and missing tackles, and we don't do that around here. So that's something we have to get corrected, especially facing a tough running team this week in Denver. We don't do that stuff. Matt Bowen
facing few giving hands main people problems shake speeches stands talking teach
What he does is he comes into a ticketed event, stands at the podium, delivers a speech, may shake a few hands on his way out, ... What I've been doing is I've been in people's homes, on Main Street, in cafes -- not only talking but listening. Giving speeches does not teach you what the problems are that people are facing in their lives. John Edwards
facing northern rock step struggle unless uphill
Unless HBOS and Northern Rock step back, Barclays is facing a long uphill struggle in mortgages.
facing higher interest prices rates rising starting stock themselves
We're facing the realization that rising (interest) rates and rising stock prices are incompatible. The higher rates are really starting to make themselves felt.
facing lots message negative people sentiment talk
We're facing some negative sentiment in Washington. We talk to lots of people in Washington. Their message is: More is needed.
facing latter oil position prevent situation tight unlike unwind year
We're facing a situation in the latter part of the 2002 not unlike year 2000, when OPEC was in a position of having to unwind quotas to prevent too tight an oil balance.
facing game good smart top
We're facing a good team, a smart team, ... Right now, they're on top of their game and we're not. Pedro Martinez
facing
We know where we're going and who we'll be facing this time. That's got to help.
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that. Alan Moore
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
good-movie complicated enjoyable
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. Akira Kurosawa
good looking
We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.
hits people south storm sure time
We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of its way.
hits needed
When we got the passes, we could not get our hits to fall. We were doing all the things we needed to do, but were not doing them well enough.
hits
Were just not getting hits when we need to.
hits million
We're getting a million hits a day on our site, A. N. Wilson
hits
Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself. Rod Carew
hits hole melts rock sucked
When the meteor hits the surface, it instantaneously melts and vaporizes rock, and that rock vapor is sucked right back up the hole into the atmosphere,
hits hitting together
We're hitting the ball. Just not at the right times. We haven't been able to put together a combination of hits in the same inning.
hits pitching playing together
We did our part on the pitching but didn't get it done offensively today. We have to keep playing to see if we can put together some hits and get going. Ron Gardenhire
hits
We have had 6,000 hits in the first 24 hours,
jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead! Charles Stross
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are. Alan Watts
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
lost-friendship sinister motive
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
lost
The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.
lost ability nations
When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined. Alan Greenspan
lost left-behind behinds
And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by Chris Cornell
lost-friendship sides asphalt
If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it. Cale Yarborough
lost
When you've lost something, and you find it again, it has so much more meaning.
lost price safety
When you've lost a son, there's no price you can put on safety for the driver. Kyle Petty
lost said
You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness. Lewis Carroll
lost credibility virginity
Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered. Charley Reese
needed veto
I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her. Lorraine Toussaint
needed prove relaxed
'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.
needed reason signature
The only reason I did it is because I needed a signature piece. George Thorogood
needed
I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue. Earl Butz
needed stepped whenever
Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play.
needed amazed surprising
I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it. Cheryl Strayed
needed whether
Whether that sparked our hitting, I don't know, but we needed a spark.
needed recover year
We've been able to make adjustments needed to recover from breakdowns. This year we are much more deep.
needed next
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.' Karin Slaughter
pitchers variety
She has a variety of pitchers that make her successful.
pitchers strike
Most pitchers have one pitch to strike out batters. Derek has three.
pitchers ran shut year
We ran into two pitchers that year who shut us down.
pitchers state top
Right now I think we have two of the top pitchers in the state on our team. Kelly Ryan
pitchers playing
Only our pitchers have been playing well. We've been scratching and clawing for runs. We'll find a way to get it done any way we can, but we've been inconsistently offensively. Darin Erstad
pitchers starting struggle unusual
I don't think it's that unusual for young pitchers starting out to struggle a little bit.
pitchers
I don't know. That's for the pitchers to decide, not me.
pitchers starting
Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks. George Vecsey
pitchers quality
He has had some quality at-bats, and pitchers have pitched him really tough. Brian Sabean
top-down simplicity doe
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. Alan Perlis
topshop urban apparel
I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets. Chloe Grace Moretz
topics until
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today. Benoit Mandelbrot
top-10 planning persons
I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10... Diana DeGarmo
topics knows
Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic. Bruce Feiler
top
She has to be (on the top of her game).
topics philosopher boring
...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring. Brandon Sanderson
top
We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1). Ken Hitchcock
top
We didn't play well enough and didn't do enough to win. That's the top line.
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.