Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon Smith

As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.

Jim Rogers

Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts

Maxwell Maltz

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

Max de Pree

Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

Max de Pree

Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

Marilynne Robinson

Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions come on me quite by surprise. I've learned over time to allow that to happen, rather than to feel that I can simply solve the problem by continuous, grueling effort.

Maria Montessori

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.

Gene Chizik

I'm not so sure you all-together stop a guy like Ginn. We can't focus efforts on one guy. We could if he was the only great player they had.

I'm not satisfied with losing, but I'm happy with the way the season went. The effort all year was tremendous.

Dontrelle Willis

I'm not saying we're going to to win 100 games or lose 100 games but I guarantee the effort is gonna be there.

I'm going to spare no effort to be ready for that game, ... If I have to spend all night receiving treatment, then I'm prepared to lose my sleep.

Scott Riggs

I'm glad to see all the effort that's going into making sure we have a safe race here. I'm really tickled to see the paving job is so smooth. There is grip everywhere. There is grip all the way to the top of the race track and that's going to be the key to making sure we open up a second groove and there is good side-by-side racing.

I'm glad the mother at least made an effort to put them in a place where they could be found quickly, rather than a Dumpster.

Judith Butler

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

We had a good effort up and down the lineup. If we keep our focus and play as a team, we can win the state title again.

Those two are good (players), but getting everybody else working hard is what's really made this team better. Now it's a total team effort for us every night.

This team needs to step up and find some leadership and stop doing these things. It's not coaching; it's effort and taking responsibility for what's happening on the court.

This team got a lot better near the end of the season, and the effort was always there.

This was an outstanding effort by all of the girls tonight. We got after it defensively and that helped us stay in the game. We held a good team to 36 total points.

They just simply wanted it more than we did. Down the stretch, they made the free throws and fought harder for the loose basketballs. We just didn't put forth the effort needed to win this type of game.

They like to run and they put a lot of effort into it.

They know what needs to be done. We just need a better effort in all three parts of the game.

It was just an effort to simply get better.

Jeff Tedford

It was great to see a reflection of how much we've improved with this young team. This effort was typical of our team. It doesn't surprise me.

It was just good for us to play solid basketball. We had been struggling lately, even though we were winning some games. We got a great effort from everyone we put out on the floor.

Dan Wheldon

It was just one of those things. The qualifying effort didn't seem that bad. I don't know where the speed was. It was kind of a disappointing run, really. It kills you to lose time from the practice sessions. Maybe it was me, maybe it was the car. We just weren't particularly quick today.

It was a fun game we gave a super effort and the only disappointment was the outcome. As coaches, we felt that we played hard enough to win but not as good as we have before to get the win.

It was just a good, solid effort all around, in the second game especially. We needed this. We needed to put up wins back to back and have consecutive good efforts and we did that.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

Gary Roberts

Teams don't like to invoke those clauses. The only effort at that in my modern memory was shot down on a fairly technical procedural basis.