There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it. – Joyce Meyer
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t. – James Salter
It wasn’t my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986. – Jahangir Khan
I don’t think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort – again, referring to Fox Broadcasting – to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television. – Jimmy Carter
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it’s just been so worth the effort. It’s like I’m planting a garden in my head. – Jane Campion
The futuristic city on ‘Legends Walking’s cover rejects any connection with the contemporary setting of ‘Changer.’ It was as if every effort was made to keep readers of ‘Changer’ from finding this stand-alone sequel. – Jane Lindskold
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. – Goldwin Smith
The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort. – John Lydon
Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort! – Joyce Meyer
One of the things about working on stage – actually, about working in show business, that is – is that it’s such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is – every endeavor where people are able to be successful. – Gregory Hines
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all – to different degrees – unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual’s effort and reward for that effort. – Jack Kemp
Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. – Jared Diamond
Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. – James A. Baldwin
Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern’ readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn’t true in some literal sense. – Jay Parini
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
When you’re making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people. – James Wan
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite. – James Hillman
I’m content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That’s what I’ve always worried about: that I wouldn’t try hard enough. – Jack Nicholson
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse. – Julius Erving
My father values talent. He is colorblind and gender neutral. When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, excellence, and effort. – Ivanka Trump
I really didn’t try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations. – Justin Timberlake
Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people. – Ivor Novello
I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I’ve actually been painting longer than I’ve been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself. – James Franco
Generally the younger generation are not hard working. They will have to put in more effort to achieve results in tournaments. most of them can perform well but they cannot deliver when they play abroad. – Jahangir Khan
You can’t give away points and games against someone like Murray. You’re not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort. – John McEnroe
People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he’s proud of us. – Jenna Bush
Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach. – Jennifer Granholm
