1,905 Quotes About Effort

  • Author Clive James
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    All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

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  • Author Dave Johnson
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    We're mad. Plain and simple, we're mad and we're disappointed with our effort tonight because this is a game we really should have won. There's a lot of ifs in life, but we're mad and disappointed and that's exactly the way I want them to be. I don't want them to feel good about a game where they only gave effort in the second half.

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  • Author Eddie Jordan
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    It was another really gutsy effort from our guys. We looked like we were stuck in the mud but we found a way.

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  • Author Henry James
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    It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

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  • Author Jackson Janes
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    I think that (if Merkel wins) there's going to be much more of an effort to say 'let's see where we agree...',

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  • Author Jarrett Jack
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    We can talk about it all we want to. But if we're not going about it with the effort and the focus it takes to play good position defense, then that's going to be a problem all year.

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  • Author Jean-Claude Juncker
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    There is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up a core monetary union in the middle of Europe. I disapprove of these debates. Instead, we should devote all of our efforts to supplementing the monetary union with a political union.

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  • Author Jeff Jones
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    Pierce is the story of the game. He sets the standard for this team and his effort pushes this team along.

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  • Author Jeff Justice
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    This is another effort by the prosecution to keep out evidence the jury ought to hear.

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