#effort

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#around #breakthroughs #cannot #clock #compute

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. ↗

— William Osler

#been #certain #effort #ideals #made

I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort. ↗

— Clive Owen

#clothes #effort #everything #goes #good

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years. ↗

— Major Owens

#available #built #concern #effort #every

I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#also #am #competitiveness #confident #crisis

The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#country #crisis #effort #efforts #financial

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awful #brevity #desperate #effort #experience

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. ↗

— Plato

#apply #both #cannot #crop #cultivation

Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people. ↗

— Jon Porter

#among #efficient #effort #embassy #image

I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave. ↗

— Franka Potente

#am #available #because #calling #effort