#efforts

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#blessings #due #efforts #life #love

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#careless #efforts #exhausts #flattery #hate

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing. ↗

— Louis Mumford

#get #magic #nothing #something #war

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#am #concerned #consider #development #efforts

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present. ↗

— Bob Ney

#barriers #before #consequences #efforts #forward

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School. ↗

— Thomas Peterffy

#charitable #donations #educational #efforts #go

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world. ↗

— Colin Powell

#efforts #greatest #international #relief #states

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in. ↗

— Colin Powell

#agenda #american #american people #believe #catchy

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#britain #compete #creative #developed #economy

As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know. ↗

— Henry Reed

#beyond #efforts #experiences #gain #intuitively