When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating ...… — Carroll Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a girl acts like she's not interested in you, it might be that she's testing you to see how bad… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950's but it really lost out to our love affair… — Adrian Bell Copy Share Image
The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night. — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Drug and human traffic are getting a lot more attention than illicit wildlife trafficking. And just as we need to intensify our… — Robert Hormats Copy Share Image
Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Just when the mountain looks too high, the obstacles too great between you and your goals you suddenly see The beautiful blue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I may play poorly at times, but I'll always try to give my best effort. — Son Heung-min Copy Share Image
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. — Bob Nelson Copy Share Image
Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
The crusade to convince us that global warming can only be dealt with by wealth destruction and higher energy prices began with… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
I would find it difficult to be involved in an effort that I think disenfranchises people from a fundamental right. How do… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible… — Steve Ovett Copy Share Image
Over the last year, the RNC has made an unprecedented effort to engage Hispanic communities across Florida and around the country. Here… — Anitere Flores Copy Share Image
everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Once I throw, I immediately know how well I have done, or how badly, from the effort I have put in and… — Neeraj Chopra Copy Share Image
What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Any effort which wittingly or unwittingly draws a wedge between the people and Armed Forces of Pakistan undermines the larger national interest. — Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Copy Share Image
The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic."… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
After gaining the incredible platform from 'Glee,' it wasn't so much of a decision to get involved as it was an opportunity… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Hazael rose from his knees. It had to take extraordinary effort, yet somehow he managed a version of his lazy smile when… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
Information is key to raising awareness of what our brain withholds from our conscious mind. Unfortunately we are hardwired emotion-driven thinkers. It… — David Bloor Copy Share Image
