Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kyle Smith

It wasn't just one person. Everyone stepped up. We had a meeting on Friday and I told them that everyone needs to step up. We have to have a championship effort to win.

It wasn't the kind of effort we expect. It wasn't the kind of effort that's going to be anything except a loss. It's disappointing, because this team is good enough, but in my mind they have underachieved. Today was probably the low point of that.

It wasn't the effort I wanted to see. I hesitate to be negative because we won.

It was good for us because we need to learn how to do that. You always want to to able to practice something like that and you can, but it's hard to get that kind of effort out of the girls in practice, ... We just approached it like something we want to be good at, said 'Let's go do it,' and they did.

Mats Sundin

It was disappointing how last night ended up. Still, we should have had a better effort than we did tonight.

Mark E. Smith

It was fun and I thought it was a great effort by our kids. We battled to the end. I'm encouraged by the way we've been playing since Christmas.

It was a lot of us not hitting shots, but Tulane worked hard to make sure we didn't have open looks. And maybe we didn't have the effort we needed to have.

It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier.

Henry David Thoreau

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

Eugene Ionesco

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

Ernest Lawrence

It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.

Henry Miller

I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.

Cassandra Clare

She had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each one of them from the other.

Cassandra Clare

Chairmen Meow deserves me every effort.

Gerhard Richter

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

Harville Hendrix

The depth of our love can be measured by our efforts. We demonstrate our love when we take that extra step...

Iyanla Vanzant

Learning to trust yourself and what you know takes time and work. You cannot expect to eradicate a lifetime of misguided information overnight. You must make a continuous, conscious effort to get on good terms with you.

Jean-Claude Juncker

There is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up a core monetary union in the middle of Europe. I disapprove of these debates. Instead, we should devote all of our efforts to supplementing the monetary union with a political union.

Jim Hightower

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

James Agee

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

Gary Vaynerchuk

Stop crying... keep hustling.

Fritz Todt

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

Frederic Bastiat

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

Christine Pelosi

After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

Gilbert Highet

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Fran Lebowitz

I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.

George Santayana

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

Jennifer Stone

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Jemaine Clement

There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up

It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.