With writing, I prefer the solo effort, but when a team is working right, as it did on 'The Grifters,' boy, it's… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region,… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
I have been putting the effort. I went for the acting course, watched a lot of movies and started reading about films.… — Aishwarya Lekshmi Copy Share Image
“As Henry Moore carved or modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello 4. and failed, but woke the next… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The people in my life are friends I have by choice. I've made a conscious effort to have them in life. I… — Gillian Zinser Copy Share Image
The elf’s eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words. ‘Harry... Potter...’ And then with a little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling,… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
Many Christians expend so much energy and worry trying not to sin. The goal is not to try to sin less. In… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup,… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I wouldn't go out of my way to go to a big celebrity bash. You have to make an effort to dress… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still,… — Amby Burfoot Copy Share Image
America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid… — Curt Schilling Copy Share Image
Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around… — Lane Evans Copy Share Image
If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing… — John Cameron Copy Share Image
A successful relationship requires a lot of work, unfortunately some people aren't always willing to put in the effort. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
I love practical, comfy clothes, so I like an all-in-one outfit - a jumpsuit or dungarees - because there's no effort involved. — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
By linking with friends and ultimately strangers and building those relationships, social media is reweaving the social fabric that can then be… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
[Tom Cotton] is known for his efforts to scale back legal immigration. Legal. He wants to stop legal immigrants from coming to… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Shaking off, with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the… — Charles Ritz Copy Share Image
Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which… — David Frost Copy Share Image
There was a lot of talk going around about my energy and my effort and I was a risk/reward type player. A… — Christian Wood Copy Share Image
Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes. — Roger McDonald Copy Share Image