#effort

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#any #combinations #daring #effects #effort

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#death #effort #filibuster #know #purpose

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#due #effort #failed #i #lack

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#after #again #back #been #call

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#effortless #fresh #idea #much #somebody

It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort. ↗

— Jo Bonner

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The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#bankrupt #effort #much #office #our

Much effort, much prosperity. ↗

— Euripides

#much #prosperity

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody. ↗

— Rory Bremner

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