Best Efforts Quotes

56 quotes by 54 authors

When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way. — Dan Millman
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts. — Ellen G. White
Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it. — Peter Watts
I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to… — William Westmoreland
Good men sometimes make mistakes. A man of integrity will honestly face and correct his mistakes, and that is an example we can respect. Sometimes… — D. Todd Christofferson
My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within… — Bill Buxton
Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary. — Peter Straub
You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts. — George Foreman
For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge. — W. Edwards Deming
My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but… — Sarah Polley
The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution… — Irving Fisher
I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced… — Thomas A. Edison
Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge… — Ernst Stuhlinger
You can only do what ONLY YOU can do. Do that. The universe will configure around your very best efforts. Willingly. — Danielle LaPorte
Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts. — Nido R Qubein
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are… — Clarence Darrow
Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit. — W. Edwards Deming
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anton Chekhov
There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors. That said, it… — Peter Lynch
My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and… — Norman Rockwell

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