#effort

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#amount #apartment #bargain #bought #completely

Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal. ↗

— Artur Davis

#allied #big #big deal #days #deal

You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try. ↗

— David Duval

#even #got #make #own #people

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#already #cannot #china #economic #economic values

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself. ↗

— James Franco

#acting #actually #been #came #collaborative

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually. ↗

— Barney Frank

#combat #community #community action #early #early sixties

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort. ↗

— Hans Frank

#doing #effort #harm #justice #our

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#anthony #anthony hopkins #anything #appear #character

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#counts #effort #never #only #result

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#chain #cheap #deprive #efforts #factories