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I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts. -- Jay Inslee
I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting. -- Jane Badler
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. -- Abdul Kalam
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. -- Roone Arledge
I think Tony Blair has to come down on one side or the other. You can't be a half-hearted supporter of the possible attack on Iraq. You're either with George Bush or you're against him. -- Simon Hoggart
Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm. -- Sebastian Coe
It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself. -- Jack Straw
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. -- Ovid
There are no half-hearted champions. -- John C. Maxwell
Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs. -- Karen Kingsbury
The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves. -- Joseph Joubert
Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years. -- Lord Byron
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us. -- C. S. Lewis
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. -- Abdul Kalam
It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. -- W. C. Sellar
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care. -- Epictetus
After high school and a year of College I made a half-hearted attempt at professional skiing in Aspen, Colorado and then found myself back in Flint. -- Doug Rice
How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve. -- Jay Leno
It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain. -- Taiichi Ohno
Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. -- Edward Abbey
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results. -- Michael Jordan
Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride? -- Talib Kweli
I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question. -- Noam Chomsky
The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke. -- W. G. Grace
When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion. -- Pat Riley
One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation. -- Robert McNamara

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