Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are putting as much energy and effort into preparing for this opponent as we would any other opponent.

We are playing better as a team right now, and we are giving more effort all the way through. We've always had the effort in practices, but at times, we haven't played as hard as we could in games. Right now, the kids are playing awfully hard in the games.

We are playing better and more consistently. I think our kids want to finish strong and I think we are figuring out that leadership, for us, is doing whatever it takes to produce a great effort and do tough things in the very next game.

Andrei Kirilenko

I think everybody did a good job helping each other out in the first half, not only Carlos, Mehmet, and myself. I would say that (rookie Deron Williams ) and Kris Humphries were also very helpful. It was a good effort all-around and we were able to establish a comfortable lead for the second half.

I saw it yesterday in practice. We just aren't shooting well right now. I saw the effort there.

Our kids were ready and they were focused and that set the tone for us the first three quarters. When we play inspired and play with effort like that, we feel like we can play with a lot of people.

Our JV had a great season. I'm very proud of them and the effort they game us.

Our joint effort produced a plan that goes a long way to protect public health, and we're pleased that the EPA moved so quickly to endorse it. More than 7 million Americans get sick from waterborne illnesses every year. Our solution will ensure that those numbers come down.

Our guys were motivated tonight and wanted to give a great effort given how we played them the first time around.

Our guys played well enough to win. The effort was there. They played their hearts out. Tip your hat to Virginia Union. They made some big plays down the stretch.

Our inside effort really took it in the second half.

That effort is failing completely and totally. We don't see a point in negotiations.

David Boyd

Thankfully, law enforcement thwarted their successful efforts at theft,

Reggie Watts

My thing is, I like to do things as long as they're relatively fluid or easy. Not to say that there isn't any effort involved in making something happen, but I don't like to push things or force things too much.

My teammates made a concerted effort to look for me in the low post tonight. When they do that, it's my job to finish. They understand it's my last year. I'm going to do everything in my power to keep this jersey on as long as possible.

My whole effort is to help you release the energy called love-intelligence. If love-intelligence is released, you are healed.

Richard Boucher

look into the circumstances of the procurement effort by the Iraqis, the nature of the equipment, (and) what transfers did or did not occur.

Alice Miller

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.

Albert Bushnell Hart

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

Albert Camus

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Albert Camus

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

Clayton Christensen

In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you do this, this will result," that they never go through this careful effort.

Daniel Kahneman

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

Daniel Kahneman

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

D. H. Lawrence

I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.

Doc Rivers

Well, that was not a pretty game obviously for us. I never thought we had anything going for the most part. I thought the effort was up and down. I thought Washington was far more focused than us.

Alexa Chung

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort,

Donna Karan

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

Don DeLillo

It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

Dorothea Lange

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.

Claude Debussy

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

Damien Hirst

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.