46 Quotes About Best-effort


  • Author Suzanne Massie
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    When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

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  • Author Tom Peters
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    Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.

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  • Author John Ruskin
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    The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

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  • Author Norman Rockwell
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    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 leave Paris.

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  • Author Brandon Sanderson
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    Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

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  • Author Eliot Spitzer
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    Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

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  • Author Harriet Beecher Stowe
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    Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

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