In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.
~By Esther Dyson ~
I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
~By Robert Walpole ~
In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.
~By Roone Arledge ~
Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
~By Barney Frank ~
We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.
~By Trip Hawkins ~
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.
~By Charles Foster Bass ~
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
~By Jo Brand ~
I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.
~By Jerry Lawler ~
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
~By Milan Kundera ~
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.
~By Mother Maribel ~
Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.
~By Robert A. Taft ~
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
~By Leon Kass ~
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.
~By Spencer Bachus ~
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
~By James Whitcomb Riley ~
Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.
~By Hun Sen ~
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
~By Pat Riley ~
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 I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
~By Sarah Polley ~
Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.
~By Sebastian Coe ~
As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
~By Josh McDowell ~
My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
~By Anita Desai ~
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
~By Plato ~
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.
~By Paul Nurse ~
The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.
~By Doc Hastings ~
The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
~By Rex Stout ~
No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.
~By John Walters ~
I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people.
~By Thomas F. Meagher ~
We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.
~By Richard Shelby ~
There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.
~By Sandy Berger ~
I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock.
~By Birch Bayh ~
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
~By Angela Merkel ~
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
~By Thomas Lynch ~
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
~By Johnny Ball ~
In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
~By Bill Kristol ~
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
~By Denis Waitley ~
House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
A winning effort begins with preparation.
~By Joe Gibbs ~
I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.
~By Richard Cobden ~
But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters.
~By David E. Price ~
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
~By Emily Bronte ~
The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
~By Dan Castellaneta ~
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
~By Chuck Jones ~
The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.
~By David Cronenberg ~
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
~By George Santayana ~
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
~By Patricia Ireland ~
I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
~By Ferguson Jenkins ~
We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.
~By Marc Morial ~
Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
~By Joan Chen ~
I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.
~By Mark Messier ~
I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you.
~By Kylie Minogue ~
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts.
~By Janet Reno ~
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
~By Thomas Becket ~
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
~By Nicholas Johnson ~
I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.
~By Juliette Lewis ~
It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.
~By Peter Hobson ~
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
~By George Santayana ~
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.
~By Mitchell Baker ~
Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
Relatives cannot help you in the studios," she says. "You stand or fall by your own efforts.
~By Glynis Johns ~
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
~By Horace ~
I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.
~By Heston Blumenthal ~
I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on.
~By Ben Shahn ~
The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.
~By Aly Khan ~
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
~By Bob Nelson ~
He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
~By Cab Calloway ~
Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.
~By Stafford Cripps ~
It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.
~By Louis Finkelstein ~
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
~By Og Mandino ~
My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
~By Janet Reno ~
What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.
~By Sepp Blatter ~
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
~By William Howard Taft ~
The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.
~By Learned Hand ~
And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.
~By Brandon Routh ~
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
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